H.C. Mack

Henry Clay Mack

Full Name: Henry Clay Mack
Date of birth: March 7, 1842
Date of death: May 6, 1903

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Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 49 Jan 11, 1881 - Jan 9, 1883 17th (1) (2) (3)   Democrat Collinsburg / Collin   Collin, Grayson

(1) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News.
(2) Collinsburg, Collin County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
(3) McKinney, Collin County, farmer, Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas, 1881.

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House District 49
Jan 11, 1881 - Jan 9, 1883
Legislatures: 17th (1) (2) (3)  
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Collinsburg / Collin
Counties in district: Collin, Grayson

(1) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News.
(2) Collinsburg, Collin County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
(3) McKinney, Collin County, farmer, Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas, 1881.

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Other Resources

  • Henry Clay Mack, birth date 3/7/1842 in Maury County, Tennessee, death date 5/3/1903 in Collin County, Texas, spouses Sallie Dobbins (1865) and Julia Ann Elizabeth Emily "Julie" Perry (1866). My Family Branches Family Tree. Ancestry.com.
  • Census of 1870 - H.C. Mack, Rutherford County, Tennessee, age 28 born circa 1842 in Tennessee, school teacher, in household with Julie Mack.
    Census of 1880 - H.C. Mack, Collin County, age 37, born circa 1843 in Tennessee, farmer, wife J.A. Mack.
    Census of 1900 - H.C. Mack, McKinney, Collin County, age 59, born July 1841 in Tennessee, lawyer, wife Julia. FamilySearch. 1870 1880 1900
  • Death notice, "Henry Clay Mack Dead," The Weekly Herald (Weatherford, Texas), 5/7/1903, p. 7. "He was an ex-member of the state legislature and took an active interest in politics." Death date 5/6/1903. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
  • Mentioned in biographical sketch, "George O. Mack Calls Himself 'Texas Rambler' Visits Legal Home Here," Collin Chronicles, Winter 1997/98, p. 5. Brother "Henry Clay Mack, school teacher, early day McKinney editor and lawyer during his mature years, who died at McKinney." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).

Photographs

  • Photograph. H.C. Mack, 17th Legislature, Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

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17th R.S. - 1881
Congressional Districts  
Congressional Districts, Apportionment  
Department of Public Education, Select (Chair) 
Educational Affairs  
Engrossed Bills  
Internal Improvements  
Memorial for Hon. H.G. Bruce of Johnson County (Chair) 
State Affairs  

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