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James Tracy
Full Name: James G. Tracy
Date of birth: December 13, 1835
Date of death: February 23, 1889
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Terms of Service top
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Legislatures |
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14
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Jan 14, 1873 - Jan 13, 1874
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13th
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Republican
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Houston / Harris
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Harris, Montgomery
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Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Act passed Apr. 24, 1873 [presented to Governor May 1, 1873 and became law without his signature], 13th Legislature, R.S., ch. 35,
Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950, 1950.
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Republican.
Directory of the Members of the Thirteenth Legislature of the State of Texas, 1873.
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13th Legislature - Senators elect qualified and took their seats, 1/14/1873, p. 1.
Senate Journal.
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13th Legislature - Republican, p. 145.
The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889, 1999.
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Biographical Notes and Resources top
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| Biographical Sketches |
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Biographical sketch and party switches, p. 150, "by 1868, however, Tracy had become a Radical, courting the black voters of Houston . . . by 1870 he was chairman of state Republican executive committee"; Election challenged, pp. 162-164, 166, 168. [Also mentioned as Republican party chairman after 1871 elections, p. 143.]
The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889, 1999.
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James G. Tracy, born ca. 1835 in Illinois, spouse Sarah E. Tracy, Census of 1870 and 1880, Houston, Harris County.
Ancestry.com.
J.G. Tracy, Houston, Harris County, born in Illinois, printer, age 38 (born ca. 1835).
Directory of the Members of the Thirteenth Legislature of the State of Texas, 1873.
James G. Tracy, birth date 12/13/1835, death date 2/23/1889, grave marker photo, burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Harris County.
Find a Grave.
Obituary, "The Late J.G. Tracy," 2/26/1889, p. 6; telegram received 2/24/1889 regarding death of Colonel James G. Tracy, "prominent in state republican politics and at that time edited a strong republican paper."
Galveston Daily News.
Career as printer of Houston Union and official state printer, For Free Press and Equal Rights:
Republican Newspapers in the Reconstruction South, Richard H. Abbott, Chapter 5, p. 78.
Google Books.
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Photograph.
James Tracy, 13th Legislature, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Collection.
Photograph.
James Tracy, 13th Legislature, State Preservation Board
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| Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol |
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13th session composite photo of Senate and House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board.
Pictorial Monogram of the State Government of Texas 1873 (DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Collection). DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Collection..
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