Rice Maxey

Full Name: Rice Maxey
Date of birth: July 23, 1800
Date of death: January 11, 1878

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Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
S	9	Nov 2, 1863 - Aug 6, 1866	10th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾		Paris / Lamar		Hopkins, Lamar
S	9	Feb 2, 1863 - Nov 2, 1863	9th ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾		Paris / Lamar		Hopkins, Lamar

(1) 10th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll call of Senators elect, oath of office administered, 11/2/1863, p. 1. Senate Journal.
(2) Member roster, 10th Legislature, 1st Called Session, Member not present during the session. Senate Journal.
(3) Rice Maxey, by special election 8/4/1862, succeeded his son, Samuel B. Maxey, member-elect, who had joined the Confederate Army on 5/25/1861, leaving District 9 without representation during the Regular Session. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
(4) 9th Legislature, 1st Called Session - Roll of Senators-elect to fill vacancies, oath of office administered, 2/2/1863, p. 1. Senate Journal.

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Senate District 9
Nov 2, 1863 - Aug 6, 1866
Legislatures: 10th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾
Home City/County: Paris / Lamar
Counties in district: Hopkins, Lamar

Senate District 9
Feb 2, 1863 - Nov 2, 1863
Legislatures: 9th ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾
Home City/County: Paris / Lamar
Counties in district: Hopkins, Lamar

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Resolutions and Journal entries

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, Rice and Sam Bell Maxey and photo of Rice Maxey's tombstone in Evergreen Cemetery (birth date 7/23/1800, death date 1/11/1878). Excerpt from "History of 847 & 913 Church Street: A Project Completed for Pike Burkhart," by Skipper Steely, Historian. The Maxey Minute, Volume 2, Issue 2, November 2010. Sam Bell Maxey House: State Historic Site. Texas Historical Commission.
Biographical sketch and portrait of Samuel Bell Maxey, pp. 8-9, succeeded by father (Relatives: Samuel Bell Maxey - son, Rice Maxey - father). Election to U.S. Senate, pp. 206-208, and caucus in 20th Legislature for U.S. Senator, pp. 375-376. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889, 1999.

Military Service Notes

Biographical sketch and photos, Sam Bell Maxey. "Information from the Historical Narrative accompanying the Texas Historical Commission marker application." Mentions Rice Maxey. Confederate Soldiers & the War Between the States in Northeast Texas: Including Delta, Fannin, Grayson, Lamar, Red River, and Titus Counties, 2008.

Other Resources

Rice Maxey, birth date 7/23/1800, death date 1/11/1878, burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Paris, Lamar County. Includes reprint of obituary from The Texas Baptist Herald. Find a Grave.
Mentioned in history of Senatorial redistricting for Lamar County, "Backward Glances (from the scrapbooks of the late A.W. Neville, Editor of the Paris News, 1936-1956, 3/14/1951)," republished 8/26/1976, p. 6. Paris News.

Committee Information top

10th R.S. - 1863 Enrolled Bills Private Land Claims State Affairs
9th R.S. - 1861 Judiciary Printing and Contingent Expenses Public Debt Public Lands

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