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Samuel Lee Chambliss

Full Name: Samuel Lee Chambliss
Date of birth: April 8, 1814
Date of death: June 18, 1889

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Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 9 Jan 13, 1874 - Apr 18, 1876 14th   Democrat Corsicana / Navarro   Freestone, Limestone, Navarro

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House District 9
Jan 13, 1874 - Apr 18, 1876
Legislatures: 14th  
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Corsicana / Navarro
Counties in district: Freestone, Limestone, Navarro

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Biographical Sketches

  • Short biography of Samuel Lee Chambliss, biographical sketch and research in Texas Republic Pension Records, compiled by George Mullins III, Austin, Texas, May 10, 2016. Birth date 4/9/1814, death date 6/18/1889. Donated Material.
  • CHAMBLISS, SAMUEL LEE (1814-1878). Birth date 4/8/1814, death date September 1878. Handbook of Texas Online.
  • Colonel S.L. Chambliss, "represented his county [Navarro] in the Fourteenth Texas Legislature; his death occurred in 1890, at the age of seventy years." Mentioned in biographical sketch of son-in-law Prosper K. Montgomery, who married Ruth Chambliss, daughter of Colonel S.L. and Jane T. (Scott) Chambliss, pp. 819-821. A Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas, 1893.

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14th R.S. - 1874
Asylums (Chair) 
Commerce and Manufactures  
Public Lands and Land Office  
Texas Central Railroad (Chair) 

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