James Webb Throckmorton

Full Name: James Webb Throckmorton
Date of birth: February 1, 1825
Date of death: April 21, 1894

Terms of Service
Biographical Notes
Committee Information

Terms of Service top

Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	City/County	Counties in District
S	15	Nov 2, 1863 - Aug 6, 1866	10th ⁽¹⁾	McKinney / Collin	Collin, Grayson
S	4	Nov 2, 1857 - Nov 4, 1861	7th ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ 8th ⁽²⁾	McKinney / Collin	Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson, Kaufman
H	7	Nov 5, 1855 - Nov 2, 1857	6th	Unknown / Denton	Collin, Cooke, Denton
H	7	Nov 7, 1853 - Nov 5, 1855	5th	McKinney / Collin	Collin, Cooke, Denton
H	25	Nov 3, 1851 - Nov 7, 1853	4th ⁽⁶⁾	McKinney / Collin	Collin, Denton

(1) 10th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll call of Senators elect, oath of office administered, 11/2/1863, p. 1. Senate Journal.
(2) 8th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators (holdover senators), 11/7/1859, p. 4. Senate Journal.
(3) Members of the Seventh Legislature, Biographical Notes - Members, April 1937 issue. Southern Historical Research Magazine, 1937.
(4) Listed in "New Senators elected: Democrats." Roster of 7th Legislature, "Texas Legislature Complete for 1857-8," Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 9/8/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
(5) 7th Legislature - Roll of Senators elected since the last adjournment called by Districts, oath of office administered, 11/2/1857, p. 1. Senate Journal.
(6) Throckmorton, resworn 1/10/1853, succeeded himself after resigning 9/15/1852. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.

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Senate District 15
Nov 2, 1863 - Aug 6, 1866
Legislatures: 10th ⁽¹⁾
Home City/County: McKinney / Collin
Counties in district: Collin, Grayson

Senate District 4
Nov 2, 1857 - Nov 4, 1861
Legislatures: 7th ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ 8th ⁽²⁾
Home City/County: McKinney / Collin
Counties in district: Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson, Kaufman

House District 7
Nov 5, 1855 - Nov 2, 1857
Legislatures: 6th
Home City/County: Unknown / Denton
Counties in district: Collin, Cooke, Denton

House District 7
Nov 7, 1853 - Nov 5, 1855
Legislatures: 5th
Home City/County: McKinney / Collin
Counties in district: Collin, Cooke, Denton

House District 25
Nov 3, 1851 - Nov 7, 1853
Legislatures: 4th ⁽⁶⁾
Home City/County: McKinney / Collin
Counties in district: Collin, Denton

Biographical Information top

Resolutions and Journal entries

5th Legislature - Roll of Members, J. Throckmorton, age 28, native state Tennessee, emigrated from Arkansas in 1841, physician, postoffice McKinney, Collin County. House Journal.

Biographical Sketches

Biographical sketch, pp. 417-421. Bench and Bar of Texas, 1885.
THROCKMORTON, James Webb (1825-1894). Representative, TX. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress.
Biographical sketch, pp. 831-833. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families, 1889.
Biographical sketch, Volume II, p. 324. A Comprehensive History of Texas, 1685 to 1897.
Biographical sketch, Governor James W. Throckmorton, pp. 450-452. The Encyclopedia of the New West, 1881.
Biographical sketch, James W. Throckmorton, pp. 49-51. Governors Who Have Been, and Other Public Men of Texas, 1921.
THROCKMORTON, JAMES WEBB (1825-1894). Handbook of Texas Online.
James W. Throckmorton, mentioned in "Governors of Texas," Volume 1, p. 204. The New Encyclopedia of Texas, 1926.
Biographical sketch, J.W. Throckmorton, pp. 44-45. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature, 1892.
Biographical sketch, James W. Throckmorton, Lewis Publishing Company. History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties, 1893, Chicago, Illinois, p. 119. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
Biography in LRL collection, 976.4 H839T 2008. Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor: James Webb Throckmorton, 1st ed.., 2008.
Biographical sketch, J.W. Throckmorton, Volume I, pp. 83-84, mentioned in "The History of Fort Worth," p. 192 ("Dr. J.W. Throckmorton of Collin county, afterward governor, was Fort Worth's leading friend in the house."). A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of North and West Texas, 1906.

Military Service Notes

Private in Captain Robert H. Taylor's company, Mexican War. Surgeon's assistant in Major Michael H. Chevallie's Texas Rangers. Company of Mounted Riflemen, Collin County, May 1861. Confederate States Army, 6th Texas Cavalry. Brigadier General of the state's first frontier district, December 1864. Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical sketch, pp. 169-186. Ten More Texans in Gray, 1980.
Biographical sketch, p. 91. Texans Who Wore the Gray, 1907.
Confederate States Army, 6th Texas Cavalry, Captain. Texas State Troops, Brigadier General. James Webb Throckmorton. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide, 2002.
Biographical sketch and portrait, pp. 31, 58-60, 155-156, Plate No. 65. Texas in the War, 1861-1865, 1965.

Other Resources

Photo and service as Governor, p. 45. Austin Lawyers: A Legacy of Leadership and Service, 2005.
Mentioned in "'Blessed with Peace!' War's Bitter Aftermath," pp. 102-136. Brush Men and Vigilantes: Civil War Dissent in Texas, 2000.
Governor of Texas 1866-1867. Legislative Reference Library, Governors of Texas, 1846-present.
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.
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.

Photographs

Photograph. James Webb Throckmorton, 8th Legislature, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Committee Information top

10th R.S. - 1863 Finance Internal Improvements Military Affairs (Chair) Military Board Revision of Rules
8th R.S. - 1859 Apportionment Claims and Accounts Counties and County Boundaries Court of Claims (Co-Chair) Federal Relations Finance Internal Improvements Judicial Districts Judiciary Land Office Private Land Claims Public Lands Reduction of Expenditures of the State Government (Co-Chair) State Penitentiary, Location of a Branch, Select Treasurer's Books and Accounts Ways and Means for the Protection of the Frontier, Select
7th R.S. - 1857 Claims and Accounts Internal Improvements Judiciary Land Office Land or Money Claims Recommended by Court of Claims Treasurer's Books and Accounts
6th R.S. - 1855 Constitutional Amendments, Select Contingent Expenses Internal Improvements (Chair) Public Printing
5th R.S. - 1853 Contingent Expenses Land Office Rules State Affairs Waco to Dallas Mail Transmission, Select (Chair)
4th R.S. - 1851 Education Federal Relations Indian Affairs Internal Improvements Public Lands

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