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Hamilton Prioleau Bee
Full Name: Hamilton Prioleau Bee
Date of birth: July 22, 1822
Date of death: October 3, 1897
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Terms of Service top
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Chamber |
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Dates of Service |
Legislatures |
Party |
City/County |
Note |
Counties in District |
H
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66
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Nov 2, 1857 - Nov 7, 1859
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7th
(1)
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Laredo / Webb
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Webb
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H
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66
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Nov 5, 1855 - Nov 2, 1857
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6th
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Laredo / Webb
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Speaker
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Webb
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H
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66
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Dec 7, 1853 - Nov 5, 1855
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5th
(2)
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Laredo / Webb
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Webb
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H
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53
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Nov 3, 1851 - Nov 7, 1853
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4th
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Laredo / Webb
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Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Webb
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H
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43
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Nov 5, 1849 - Nov 3, 1851
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3rd
(3)
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Laredo / Webb
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Cameron, Goliad, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Starr, Webb
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(1)
Democrat. 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).
(2)
Not present at organization of the House on 11/7/1853. Bee sworn on 12/7/1853, p. 203.
House Journal.
(3)
Roster of members elect of the 3rd Legislature, Matthewson, R.C., Texas State Gazette (Austin, Texas), 9/29/1849, p. 6, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.
Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
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Biographical Notes and Resources top
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Biographical Sketches |
Biographical sketch.
American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910, 1989.
Biographical sketch, General Hamilton P. Bee; mentions son Carlos Bee, pp. 72-73.
Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families, 1889.
Gen. Hamilton Prioleau Bee, birth date 7/22/1822, death date 10/3/1897, biographical sketch, military grave marker, portrait, burial in Confederate Cemetery, San Antonio.
Find a Grave.
BEE, CARLOS (1867-1932). Relatives: Hamilton P. Bee, father; Carlos Bee, son.
Handbook of Texas Online.
BEE, HAMILTON PRIOLEAU (1822-1897).
Handbook of Texas Online.
11th Speaker of the House of Representatives: Hamilton Prioleau Bee. Portrait and biographical sketch.
Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016, 2016.
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Military Service Notes |
Texas Militia, Brigadier General, 1861. Confederate States Army, Brigadier General, appointed 3/4/1862.
Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical sketch, pp. 31-32.
Texans Who Wore the Gray, 1907.
Hamilton Prioleau Bee.
Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide, 2002.
Biographical sketch and portrait, pp. 3-4, 76-77, Plate No. 2.
Texas in the War, 1861-1865, 1965.
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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.
Mentioned in Ralph A. Wooster, "Membership in the Early Texas Legislatures, 1850-1860," October 1965, pp. 163-173.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
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Photographs |
Photograph.
Hamilton Prioleau Bee, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
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Committee Informationtop
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7th R.S. - 1857
Contingent Expenses
Delay in the Distribution of the Laws of the 6th R.S.
Education
Federal Relations
Message of the Governor on Kansas Affairs
(Co-Chair)
Rules, Select
(Chair)
San Saba County, Memorials Regarding Indian Depredations
State Affairs
(Chair)
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5th R.S. - 1853
Federal Relations
Public Debt
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4th R.S. - 1851
Enrolled Bills
Federal Relations
Internal Improvements
Land Titles West of the Nueces, Select
Land Titles, Investigation Report of Commissioners William H. Bourland and James B. Miller, Select
Public Lands
(Chair)
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3rd R.S. - 1849
Apportionment, Special
Archives of Martin De Leon's Colony
Finance
Governor's Message, Select
Judicial Districts, Select
Land Scrips, Loan Bonds, and Other Obligations Issued by the Late Republic of Texas in Comptroller's Office
Military Affairs
Post Routes, Select
Public Lands
(Chair)
Quieting Land Titles West of the Nueces River, Governor's Message
(Co-Chair)
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