resting_place succeeded death_date party nationality office birth_date term_start residence article_title term_end name occupation
fort sam houston national cemetery in san antonio albert `` al '' brown 9 january 1977 republican american texas -rrb- state representative for district 57-c -lrb- bexar county 24 august 1920 january 1973 san antonio , texas joe sage
 january 1975 joseph f. `` joe '' sage attorney
joe sage

joseph f. sage -lrb- august 24 , 1920 -- january 9 , 1977 -rrb- was one of first two republicans since reconstruction to represent bexar county , texas , in the texas house of representatives .
sage represented district 57-c , as then numbered , in san antonio from 1973 to 1975 .
sage , a lawyer , and later united states district judge james robertson nowlin were elected in 1972 on the nixon-agnew ticket .
nowlin , whose state house service began in 1967 as a democrat , remained in the legislature until 1981 , when he was appointed by u.s. president ronald w. reagan to the district court for the western district of texas .
in his single term in the house during the administration of governor dolph briscoe , sage served on these committees : human resources under chairman carlos truan , liquor regulation , and state affairs .
he was voted by `` texas monthly '' magazine as part of `` the furniture '' , meaning he left no distinguishing mark of performance in the regular 1973 session .
others receiving the `` furniture '' designation included state representative john whitmire , later a long-serving member of the texas state senate from houston .
sage died at the age of fifty-six and is interred at fort sam houston national cemetery in san antonio .
