Terms of Service top

Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
H	24	Feb 9, 1870 - Jan 14, 1873	12th (1) (2)	Radical Republican	St. Mary's of Aransas / Refugio		Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria
H	70	Nov 7, 1859 - Nov 4, 1861	8th (3) (4)		Pleasanton / Atascosa		Bexar
H	56	Nov 3, 1851 - Nov 7, 1853	4th (5)		Gilead / Upshur		Harrison, Upshur

(1) 12th Legislature, Provisional Session - Qualified and took the oath of office on 2/9/1870. House Journal.
(2) Party affiliation, Radical. Texas Almanac for . . . and Emigrant's Guide to Texas.
(3) Camp served as a delegate to the Secession Convention, but he, along with James Webb Throckmorton, was one of only eight delegates to vote against secession. Little Berry Camp remained a Unionist throughout the Civil War. Handbook of Texas Online.
(4) [In late 1860 and early 1861] legislators Micajah Lewis Armstrong, John L. Haynes, and Robert H. Taylor mailed circulars to their constituencies defending their unpopular Unionist positions. They joined other Unionist legislators and convention delegates on February 6 in issuing an address entreating Texans to reject secession." "Origins of Early Texas Republican Party Leadership," Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 447. Journal of Southern History.
(5) Election of 1851 - Democratic candidates William T. Scott, Dr. Joseph Taylor, and L.D. Camp of Upshur County (possibly L.B. Camp), pp. 162, 164. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880, 1983.

Biographical Notes and Resources top

Biographical Sketches

• CAMP, LITTLE BERRY [L.B.] (1806-1880). Handbook of Texas Online.
• Biographical sketch and portrait. Also served as Representative in Georgia Legislature. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature, 1860.

Other Resources

• Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1866. Journal of the Texas State Convention: Assembled at Austin, Feb. 7, 1866. Adjourned April 2, 1866, pp. 3-5. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.

Photographs

• Photograph. L.B. Camp, 8th Legislature, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Committee Information top

12th Adjourned - 1871 Comptroller Misconduct   Comptroller's and Treasurer's Offices, Examine

12th R.S. - 1871 Agriculture and Stock Raising   Finance   Public Lands and Land Office (Chair)

12th 1st C.S. - 1870 Agriculture and Stock Raising   Division of the State, Select   Finance   Public Lands and Land Office (Chair)

12th Provisional - 1870 Fourteenth and Fifteenth U.S. Constitutional Amendments, Passage of

8th R.S. - 1859 Joint Indian Affairs   Judicial Districts   Public Debt   Retrenchment and Reform

4th R.S. - 1851 Apportionment