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Stephen Augustus Venters Full Name: Stephen Augustus Venters Date of birth: June 27, 1822 Date of death: March 12, 1881 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District H 51 Jan 14, 1879 - Jan 11, 1881 16th (1)   Democrat Denton / Denton   Denton H 22 Jan 14, 1873 - Jan 13, 1874 13th   Democrat Denton / Denton   Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Grayson, Hardeman, Haskell, Jack, Knox, Montague, Throckmorton, Wichita, Wilbarger, Wise, Young (1) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Biographical Sketches VENTERS, STEPHEN AUGUSTUS (1822-1881). Handbook of Texas Online. S.A. Venters, portrait and biographical sketch, birth date 6/27/1822, death date 3/12/1881, p. 28; elected to Legislature in 1874, pp. 121-122. History and Reminiscences of Denton County, 1918. Biography, Stephen Augustus Venters, pp. 265-266. Birth date 6/27/1833 in Pitt County, North Carolina. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80, 1879. Other Resources Census of 1870, Stephen A. Venters, Denton County, age 48 [born ca. 1822], dry goods merchant, born in North Carolina, spouse Mary L. Ancestry.com. Judge Stephen A. Venters, birth date 6/27/1822, death date 3/12/1881, grave marker photo and interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Denton (Denton County). Find a Grave. S.A. Venters, chief justice (county judge), August 1856, p. 64; postmaster at New Alton in 1851, pp. 66-67; and county judge, pp. 76 and 193. History of Denton County, From Its Beginning to 1960, 1978. Photographs Photograph. Stephen Venters, 13th Legislature, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Collection. Photograph. Stephen Venters, 13th Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 13th session composite photo of Senate and House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board. 13th session composite photo of Senate and House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board. Pictorial Monogram of the State Government of Texas 1873 (DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Collection). DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Collection.. Committee Informationtop 16th R.S. - 1879 Agriculture and Stock Raising   Code of Criminal Procedure, Select   Comptroller's and Treasurer's Offices, Examine   Contingent Expenses   Education   Enrolled Bills (Chair)  Internal Improvements   Public Lands and Land Office   13th R.S. - 1873 Agriculture and Stock Raising   Contingent Expenses of 13th Legislature, Examine Accounts   Penitentiary   State Affairs   State Cemetery

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