Davis Prendergast

Full Name: Davis M'Gee Prendergast
Date of birth: December 26, 1816
Date of death: March 2, 1910

Terms of Service
Biographical Notes
Committee Information

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Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
H	19	Jan 14, 1873 - Jan 13, 1874	13th ⁽¹⁾	Democrat	Springfield / Limestone		Falls, Limestone, McLennan
H	40	Nov 2, 1863 - Jun 1, 1865	10th ⁽²⁾		Springfield / Limestone		Falls, Freestone, Limestone

(1) The town of Springfield was the first county seat of Limestone County when it was established in 1847. The town began to decline when it was bypassed by the railroad, and after the courthouse burned down in 1873, the county seat moved to Groesbeck. When the former townsite became part of Fort Parker State Park in the mid-1930s, only the cemetery remained. Handbook of Texas Online.
(2) Prendergast resigned 6/1/1865. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.

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House District 19
Jan 14, 1873 - Jan 13, 1874
Legislatures: 13th ⁽¹⁾
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Springfield / Limestone
Counties in district: Falls, Limestone, McLennan

House District 40
Nov 2, 1863 - Jun 1, 1865
Legislatures: 10th ⁽²⁾
Home City/County: Springfield / Limestone
Counties in district: Falls, Freestone, Limestone

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Resolutions and Journal entries

Portrait, 10th Legislature, Regular Session. House Journal.

Biographical Sketches

PRENDERGAST, DAVIS M'GEE (1816-1910). Relatives: Davis M'Gee Prendergast, father; Albert C. Prendergast, son. Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical sketch and portrait, D.M. Prendergast, pp. 256-257. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas, 1890.

Other Resources

Delegate to Secession Convention of Texas, 1861. Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas 1861. Edited from the original in the department of state by Ernest William Winkler, State Librarian. Texas Library and Historical Commission, the State Library. Austin: Austin Print. Co., 1912, pp. 20-22. Originally published serially in newspapers. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.

Photographs

Photograph. Davis Prendergast, 13th Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Davis Prendergast, 13th Legislature, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

13th session composite photo of Senate and House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board.
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 Texas Photographs.

Committee Information top

13th R.S. - 1873 Agricultural and Mechanical College Constitutional Amendments (Chair) Federal Relations Finance Impeachment of Judge William Chambers, 1st Judicial District, Select Judiciary No. 2 Privileges and Elections
10th R.S. - 1863 Confederate Relations Finance Public Debt (Chair)

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