Andrew Phelps McCormick

Full Name: Andrew Phelps McCormick
Date of birth: December 18, 1832
Date of death: November 2, 1916

Terms of Service
Biographical Notes
Committee Information

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Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
S	19	Apr 18, 1876 - Apr 12, 1879	15th ⁽³⁾ 16th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾	Republican	Brazoria / Brazoria		Brazoria, Galveston, Matagorda

(1) Republican, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News.
(2) Robert G. Street, sworn 6/10/1879, succeeded Andrew P. McCormick, resigned 4/12/1879. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
(3) 15th Legislature - All Senators except District 7 listed in roll call as Senators elect, oath of office administered, 4/18/1876, p. 1; Drawing of Senatorial Terms, 4/27/1876, p. 98, drew "long term" (four years). Senate Journal. April 14, 1876 April 27, 1876

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Senate District 19
Apr 18, 1876 - Apr 12, 1879
Legislatures: 15th ⁽³⁾ 16th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾
Party: Republican
Home City/County: Brazoria / Brazoria
Counties in district: Brazoria, Galveston, Matagorda

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Biographical Sketches

Biographical sketch, Judge Andrew Phelps McCormick, pp. 375-376. The Encyclopedia of the New West, 1881.
Biographical sketch in "State Senators Elect: Personal Sketches Completed - Seventeen Lawyers, Seven Grangers, Two Doctors, One Editor and Four Colored Politicians - the Political Structure of the New Senate of Texas," 3/3/1876, p. 2. Galveston Daily News.
MCCORMICK, ANDREW PHELPS (1832-1916). McCormick was "one of only a handful of Republicans to serve in the post-Reconstruction state Senate." Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical sketch, pp. 32-34. "He is a Republican in politics...He was elected Senator in the present legislature...having received the open and earnest support of many staunch and influential Democrats." Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878, 1876.
Biographical sketch, p. 245. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80, 1879.

Other Resources

Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1868. Included in "List of Delegates to the Reconstruction Convention, As Announced in Special order No. 213, Dated Headquarters Fifth Military District, New Orleans, LA., April 13th, 1868." Journal of the Reconstruction Convention, Which Met at Austin, Texas, June 1, A.D., 1868 (1870), pp 533-534. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.

Photographs

Photograph. A.P. McCormick, 15th Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Andrew P. McCormick, Texas Jurists Collection

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

15th session composite photo of Senate members (Senate Sergeant-at-arms office, west wall. 2E.10A). State Preservation Board.

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16th R.S. - 1879 Agricultural and Mechanical College, Consider Report of the Joint Committee Appointed to Visit Agricultural and Mechanical College, Visit Commerce and Manufactures Constitutional Amendments Finance General Land Office Judiciary No. 1 New Judiciary Article to the Constitution Public Debt Revision of Code Revision of Rules (Chair) Stock and Stock Raising
15th R.S. - 1876 Commerce and Manufactures Constitutional Amendments Contingent Expenses Counties and County Boundaries Enrolled Bills Internal Improvements Judiciary No. 2 Private Land Claims Treasurer's and Comptroller's Department

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