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Pleasant Williams Kittrell

Full Name: Pleasant Williams Kittrell
Date of birth: April 13, 1805
Date of death: September 29, 1867

Terms of Service

Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 40 Nov 2, 1857 - Nov 7, 1859 7th (1) (2)     Huntsville / Walker   Grimes, Madison, Walker
H 40 Nov 5, 1855 - Nov 2, 1857 6th (3)     Unknown / Madison   Grimes, Madison, Walker

Terms of service footnotes


(1) Members of the Seventh Legislature, Biographical Notes - Members, April 1937 issue. Southern Historical Research Magazine, 1937. ↩
(2) Democrat. Roster of 7th Legislature, "Texas Legislature Complete for 1857-8," Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 9/8/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). ↩
(3) Included "[a]mong 1855 legislators that this writer has positively identified as Know Nothings." The party was active in Texas at the state level between 1855 and 1857. "An Analysis of the Texas Know Nothings," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 3, January 1967, pp. 414, 416-417, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). ↩

Terms of Service

Legislatures:
7th (1) (2)  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Huntsville / Walker
Counties in district:
Grimes, Madison, Walker

Legislatures:
6th (3)  
Party:
American (Know-Nothing)
Home City/County:
Unknown / Madison
Counties in district:
Grimes, Madison, Walker

Terms of service notes


(1) Members of the Seventh Legislature, Biographical Notes - Members, April 1937 issue. Southern Historical Research Magazine, 1937. ↩
(2) Democrat. Roster of 7th Legislature, "Texas Legislature Complete for 1857-8," Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 9/8/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). ↩
(3) Included "[a]mong 1855 legislators that this writer has positively identified as Know Nothings." The party was active in Texas at the state level between 1855 and 1857. "An Analysis of the Texas Know Nothings," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 3, January 1967, pp. 414, 416-417, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). ↩

Biographical Information

  • Pleasant Williams Kittrell, burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Huntsville, Walker County. Includes portrait, historical marker photo, and biographical sketch from Walker County Historical Commission. Find a Grave.
  • Biographical sketch of Pleasant Williams Kittrell. Relatives: Pleasant Williams Kittrell - father, Norman Goree Kittrell, Sr. - son; Norman Goree Kittrell, Sr. - father, Norman Goree Kittrell, Jr. - son; Pleasant Williams Kittrell - grandfather, Norman Goree Kittrell, Jr. - grandson. Genealogy.com, 2004.
  • KITTRELL, PLEASANT WILLIAMS (1805-1867). Handbook of Texas Online.
  • Portrait and biographical sketch, Judge Norman Goree Kittrell, pp. 401-402. Relatives: Pleasant Williams Kittrell - father; Norman Goree Kittrell, Sr. - son. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature, 1889.
  • Dr. Pleasant William Kittrell, speech of education committee chairman P.W. Kittrell on 11/3/1857 in advocacy of a report about the establishment of The University of Texas. Included in biographical sketch of son William Henry Kittrell, Sr., Volume IV, pp. 171-172. Texas Under Many Flags, 1930.

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