Terms of Service top

Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
S	32	Feb 11, 1863 - Aug 6, 1866	9th (2) (3)   10th (1)		Brownsville / Cameron		Cameron, Duval, Hidalgo, Starr, Webb, Zapata, Encinal
S	29	Nov 5, 1855 - Nov 2, 1857	6th (4)		Rio Grande City / Starr		Kinney, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Starr, Webb
H	67	Nov 7, 1853 - Nov 5, 1855	5th		Rio Grande City / Starr		Starr
H	52	Nov 3, 1851 - Nov 7, 1853	4th		Rio Grande City / Starr		Cameron, Starr

(1) 10th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll call by district (holdover Senators), 11/2/1863, pp. 1-3. Senate Journal.
(2) Edward R. Hord, sworn 2/11/1863, succeeded Edwin B. Scarborough, murdered 10/7/1862. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
(3) 9th Legislature, Regular Session - Classification of Senators (drawing for terms of office) - predecessor Edwin Scarborough drew "the long term" (four years), 11/12/1861, p. 42. Senate Journal.
(4) 6th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators elected since the last adjournment presented their credentials, and being qualified, took their seats, 11/5/1855, p. 2. Senate Journal.

Biographical Notes and Resources top

Resolutions and Journal entries

• 5th Legislature - Roll of Members, Edward R. Hord, native state Virginia, emigrated from Mississippi in 1846, lawyer, postoffice Rio Grande City, Starr County. House Journal.
• Member roster, 9th Legislature, 1st Called Session: name, district, resident county, post office, state of nativity, occupation, and age. Senate Journal.

Biographical Sketches

• Biographical sketch and portrait, Colonel Edward Rowzee Hord, pp. 109-111. Born 3/24/1826, died 6/23/1869 in Brownsville. After Mexican War, settled in Starr County and became first Starr County Clerk and in 1851, represented Starr County in Legislature. Accepted position of Collector of Customs in 1864 for the port of Brownsville, "States-Rights Democrat and favored the cause of secession." Genealogy of the Hord Family, 1898.
• HORD, EDWARD R. (ca. 1827-unknown). Handbook of Texas Online.
• Obituary, "Death of Hon. E.R. Hord," The Daily Ranchero (Brownsville, Texas), 6/24/1869, p. 1. Edward Rowzee Hord, born 3/24/1826 in Caroline County, Virginia, died 6/23/1869. "He was four times elected to the State Senate from Starr and Cameron Counties . . . "
  "Funeral of Hon. E.R. Hord," The Daily Ranchero (Brownsville, Texas), 6/26/1869, p. 1. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). June 24, 1869 June 26, 1869

Military Service Notes

• Mexican War, Private, McGray's company, Texas Mounted Volunteers. Captain, Brownsville Company, during Merchants War of 1850 and the battle of Matamoros. Colonel, John S. Ford's Cavalry of the West. Handbook of Texas Online.

Other Resources

• Mentioned in I Would Rather Sleep in Texas: a History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the People of the Santa Anita Land Grant, 2003.
• Delegate to Secession Convention of Texas, 1861. Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas 1861. Edited from the original in the department of state by Ernest William Winkler, State Librarian. Texas Library and Historical Commission, the State Library. Austin: Austin Print. Co., 1912, pp. 20-22. Originally published serially in newspapers. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.

Committee Information top

10th R.S. - 1863 Confederate Relations   Judiciary   Military Affairs   State Affairs

9th R.S. - 1861 Militia and Military Affairs

6th R.S. - 1855 Claims and Accounts   Judicial Districts, Select   Land Titles West of Nueces River, Select   Private Land Claims   State Affairs (Chair)

5th R.S. - 1853 Federal Relations   Judicial Districts   Judiciary   Privileges and Elections (Chair)  State Affairs

4th R.S. - 1851 Land Titles West of the Nueces, Select   Land Titles, Investigation Report of Commissioners William H. Bourland and James B. Miller, Select   Military Affairs, Governor's Message