William Cazneau
Full Name: William Leslie CazneauOther surnames: Cazenau
Date of birth: October 5, 1807
Date of death: January 7, 1876
Terms of Service top
| Chamber | District | Dates of Service | Legislatures | Party | City/County | Note | Counties in District |
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| H | Travis | Feb 27, 1846 - Dec 13, 1847 | 1st (1) (2) | Unknown / Travis | Travis |
(1) Not present at organization of the House on 2/16/1846; Cazneau sworn 2/27/1846, p. 56, House Journal.
(2) Democrat. Table of members of the 1st Legislature, The Texas Democrat (Austin, Texas), 5/20/1846, p. 3, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
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House District Travis
Feb 27, 1846 - Dec 13, 1847 Legislatures: 1st (1) (2) Home City/County: Unknown / Travis Counties in district: Travis |
(1) Not present at organization of the House on 2/16/1846; Cazneau sworn 2/27/1846, p. 56, House Journal.
(2) Democrat. Table of members of the 1st Legislature, The Texas Democrat (Austin, Texas), 5/20/1846, p. 3, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
Biographical Information top
Biographical Sketches
- Biographical sketch, p. 64. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845, 1942.
- CAZNEAU, WILLIAM LESLIE (1807-1876). Handbook of Texas Online.
Other Resources
- "A Guide to the Jane McManus Storms Cazneau Papers, 1834-1836, 1849-1865, 1877-1878, 1919," Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006.
- Husband of CAZNEAU, JANE MARIA ELIZA MCMANUS (1807-1878). Handbook of Texas Online.
- "Lobbyists for Commercial Empire: Jane Cazneau, William Cazneau, and U.S. Caribbean Policy, 1846-1878, by Robert E. May, Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Aug., 1979), pp. 383-412 JSTOR.
- Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1845. Journals of the Convention, assembled at the city of Austin on the Fourth of July, 1845, for the purpose of framing a constitution for the State of Texas, pp. 377-378. Austin: Miner & Cruger, printers to the Convention, 1845. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.
Committee Information top
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1st R.S. - 1846
Ceding Public Lands to the Government of the United States, Public Debt Finance Mail Routes (Post Routes), Select Militia Public Lands State Affairs |
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