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William Henry Sinclair
Full Name: William Henry Sinclair
Date of birth: October 31, 1838
Date of death: January 11, 1897
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Terms of Service top
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12
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Feb 8, 1870 - Jan 14, 1873
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12th
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Radical Republican
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Galveston / Galveston
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Speaker 5/10/1871 - 1/14/1873.
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Brazoria, Galveston, Matagorda
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12th Legislature, Adjourned Session - Resolution offered declaring Sinclair's seat vacant due to his acceptance of the office of Galveston county treasurer, 9/19/1871, p. 43; 9/20/1871, pp. 53-54. Majority and minority reports of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, 9/22/1871, in journal of 9/27/1871, pp. 106-114.
House Journal. September 19, 1871
September 20, 1871
September 27, 1871
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12th Legislature, Provisional Session - Qualified and took the oath of office on 2/8/1870.
House Journal.
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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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Party affiliation, Radical.
Texas Almanac for . . . and Emigrant's Guide to Texas.
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Biographical Notes and Resources top
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Selected Newspaper articles
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Biographical sketch; born in Ohio in 1832.
American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910, 1989.
William Henry Sinclair, birth date 10/31/1838, death date 1/11/1897, obituary from Galveston Daily News 1/12/1897, biographical sketch, burial in Lakeview Cemetery, Galveston.
Find a Grave.
SINCLAIR, WILLIAM HENRY (1838-1897).
Handbook of Texas Online.
Family group sheet, letters, newspaper articles, biographical sketches,
Internet web hosting site; publisher unknown.
21st Speaker of the House of Representatives: William Henry Sinclair. Photo and biographical sketch.
Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016, 2016.
Photos, biographical sketch, newspaper article, and excerpt from "Who Was the Real Head of the Texas Freedmen's Bureau?: The Role of Brevet Colonel William H. Sinclair as Acting Assistant Inspector General." Birth date 5/30/1839.
Robinson's Battery.
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Union Army, Civil War. Second Lieutenant, Company C, 7th Michigan Infantry and Colonel, Army of the Cumberland.
Handbook of Texas Online.
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Account of conditions in Clarksville during Reconstruction. Albert Latimer served as subassistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau under Inspector General William H. Sinclair, pp. 198-200,
Overreached on All Sides: the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas Administrators, 1865-1868, 1991.
Includes extensive discussion of Sinclair's involvement in the Freedmen's Bureau,
Overreached on All Sides: the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas Administrators, 1865-1868, 1991.
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Photograph.
William Henry Sinclair, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
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