Ira Hobart Evans
Full Name: Ira Hobart EvansDate of birth: April 11, 1844
Date of death: April 19, 1922
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| Chamber | District | Dates of Service | Legislatures | Party | City/County | Note | Counties in District |
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| H | 30 | Feb 9, 1870 - Jan 14, 1873 | 12th (1) (2) (3) | Republican | Corpus Christi / Nueces | Speaker 2/10/1870 - 5/10/1871. | Atascosa, Cameron, Dimmit, Duval, El Paso, Frio, Hidalgo, Karnes, Kinney, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen, Maverick, Medina, Nueces, Presidio, Starr, Uvalde, Webb, Zapata, Zavala, Encinal |
(1) 12th Legislature, Provisional Session - Evans qualified and took the oath of office on 2/9/1870. Election contest resolved in his favor on 2/15/1870, pp. 25-26. House Journal. February 15, 1870 February 9, 1870
(2) 12th Legislature, Regular Session - Resolution offered declaring the office of Speaker vacant, Speaker pro tem appointed, nominations for Speaker made, new Speaker elected, 5/10/1871, pp. 1474-1483. House Journal.
(3) Evans was elected speaker in the 12th Legislature, Provisional Session, 2/10/1870, and elected speaker again in the 12th Legislature Regular Session, 1/10/1871. Evans continued in office until 5/10/1871, when a resolution declared the office vacant. Slaughter was appointed speaker pro tempore and Sinclair elected to succeed Evans the same day. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
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House District 30
Feb 9, 1870 - Jan 14, 1873 Legislatures: 12th (1) (2) (3) Speaker 2/10/1870 - 5/10/1871. Party: Republican Home City/County: Corpus Christi / Nueces Counties in district: Atascosa, Cameron, Dimmit, Duval, El Paso, Frio, Hidalgo, Karnes, Kinney, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen, Maverick, Medina, Nueces, Presidio, Starr, Uvalde, Webb, Zapata, Zavala, Encinal |
(1) 12th Legislature, Provisional Session - Evans qualified and took the oath of office on 2/9/1870. Election contest resolved in his favor on 2/15/1870, pp. 25-26. House Journal. February 15, 1870 February 9, 1870
(2) 12th Legislature, Regular Session - Resolution offered declaring the office of Speaker vacant, Speaker pro tem appointed, nominations for Speaker made, new Speaker elected, 5/10/1871, pp. 1474-1483. House Journal.
(3) Evans was elected speaker in the 12th Legislature, Provisional Session, 2/10/1870, and elected speaker again in the 12th Legislature Regular Session, 1/10/1871. Evans continued in office until 5/10/1871, when a resolution declared the office vacant. Slaughter was appointed speaker pro tempore and Sinclair elected to succeed Evans the same day. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
Biographical Information top
Selected newspaper articlesBiographical Sketches
- Biographical sketch. American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910, 1989.
- EVANS, IRA HOBART (1844-1922). Handbook of Texas Online.
- Biographical sketch, Ira H. Evans, Volume III, pp. 1281-1282. A History of Texas and Texans, 1914.
- 20th Speaker of the House of Representatives: Ira Hobart Evans. Photo and biographical sketch. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016, 2016.
- Biographical sketch and portrait, Ira Hobart Evans, pp. 381-385. Texas, the Country and Its Men: Historical, Biographical, Descriptive, 1918.
Military Service Notes
- Ira Hobart Evans, birth date 4/11/1844, death date 4/19/1922 in San Diego, California. FamilySearch United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, 1985.
- Civil War service: Private, Company B, 10th Vermont Volunteer Infantry; 1st Lieutenant, 9th Regiment, U.S.C.T. ("United States Colored Troops"); Captain, Company B, 116th Regiment, U.S.C.T.; Brevet Major, U.S. Volunteers. Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. Biographical sketch and grave marker, Maj. Ira Hobart Evans, birth date 4/11/1844, death date 4/19/1922, burial in Berlin Corner Cemetery, Berlin Corners, Washington County, Vermont. Find a Grave.
- Civil War, Union Army, Major. "For bravery demonstrated in the Battle of Hatcher’s Run, Virginia, occurring only a week before Lee’s surrender to Grant in 1865, Evans was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor." Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016, 2016.
Other Resources
- During the Civil War, Evans served in a "black volunteer regiment along the Rio Grande, and remained in the state after his muster-out." Evans cut short his tenure with the Freedmen's Bureau to take a political role in Reconstruction, pp. 182-183. Overreached on All Sides: the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas Administrators, 1865-1868, 1991.
Photographs
- Photograph. Ira Hobart Evans, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
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12th Adjourned - 1871
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