Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
H	40	Nov 2, 1857 - Nov 7, 1859	7th ⁽¹⁾		Huntsville / Walker		Grimes, Madison, Walker
H	40	Nov 5, 1855 - Nov 2, 1857	6th ⁽²⁾		Unknown / Madison		Grimes, Madison, Walker

(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) Included "[a]mong 1855 legislators that this writer has positively identified as Know Nothings." The party was active in Texas at the state level between 1855 and 1857. "An Analysis of the Texas Know Nothings," Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 414, 416-417. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

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Biographical Sketches

Biographical sketch of Pleasant Williams Kittrell. Relatives: Pleasant Williams Kittrell - father, Norman Goree Kittrell, Sr. - son; Norman Goree Kittrell, Sr. - father, Norman Goree Kittrell, Jr. - son; Pleasant Williams Kittrell - grandfather, Norman Goree Kittrell, Jr. - grandson. Genealogy.com, 2004.
KITTRELL, PLEASANT WILLIAMS (1805-1867). Handbook of Texas Online.
Portrait and biographical sketch, Judge Norman Goree Kittrell, pp. 401-402. Relatives: Pleasant Williams Kittrell - father; Norman Goree Kittrell, Sr. - son. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature, 1889.

Committee Information top

7th R.S. - 1857 Claims and Accounts Education (Chair) Message of the Governor on Kansas Affairs Penitentiary Physicians, To Enquire Into Expediency of Establishing a Medical Board Public Debt (Chair)
6th R.S. - 1855 Constitutional Amendments, Select Contingent Expenses Education (Chair) Judicial Districts, Select Public Debt Public Printing Rules Surveying Public Lands, Select

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