Name/Title
William Robert McClellan [Cabinet Card]Description
September 21, 1909 cabinet card of the Honorable William Robert McClellan. Photograph taken by Elliott in Austin, Texas.Context
The Honorable William McClellan represented the One Hundred and Eighth legislative district, which comprises Brown and Coleman counties. He served in the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-ninth legislatures, and his most important and useful services in the legislature, commencing with the Twenty-sixth session, were in his successful opposition to the proposed land legislation which came up at that time and which if it had been enacted would have been the means of depriving actual settlers of millions of acres of the state, school land and thus retarded the community's development. This proposed legislation was in the interest of land speculators, as it would have disposed of all school lands in the state in bodies of not less than ten thousand acres at from seventy-five cents to one dollar an acre, no actual settlement being required. Mr. McClellan's efforts as a legislator were widely recognized, and they proved of signal usefulness to his state. He is one of the substantial and resourceful citizens of Coleman county, a retired merchant, a bank director and a wealthy farmer and stockman.