Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Edward Irwin Kellie

Full Name: Edward Irwin Kellie
Birth date: March 17, 1845
Death date: June 24, 1928

Terms of Service

Senate, 31st ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ & 30th ⁽³⁾ Legislatures
1/9/1907 - 1/10/1911
Democrat
Senate President Pro Tempore, elected 4/11/1909, 1st C.S.

(1) Democrat; roster of members of the 31st Legislature with biographical and party information. "Year Book 1909," Number 13, May-June 1910, pp. 408-415. Bulletin (Texas Department of Agriculture) 1910.
(2) 31st Legislature - Roll Call of holdover Senators, 1/12/1909, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal .
(3) 30th Legislature - Roll of the Senators-elect, Absent, 1/8/1907, p. 2; Oath of office administered, 1/9/1907, p. 5. Senate Journal . January 8, 1907
January 9, 1907

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. E.I. Kellie, State Preservation Board
Photograph. E.I. Kellie, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Census of 1880 - E.I. Kellie, Orange, Orange County, born about 1845 in South Carolina, editor, age 35. FamilySearch .
Captain Edward Irwin Kellie, birth date 3/17/1845 in Charleston, South Carolina; death date 6/24/1928 in Jasper, Jasper County, Texas; retired. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
Capt. E.I. Kellie (1845-1928), photos and biographical sketch, burial in Jasper City Cemetery, Jasper County. Find a Grave .
Biographical sketch of Captain E.I. Kellie; photograph of E.I. Kellie and the “Jeff Davis Rifles” militia, taken in Washington D.C. in 1901. Kellie founded “Jasper Newsboy” newspaper and represented East Texas as a State Senator. Jewels of Jasper: a Project of the Students of Jasper Jr. High School, Jasper, Texas 2009.
Confederate States Army, Color Bearer of Whitfield's Texas Legion, 27th Texas Cavalry. Edward Irwin Kellie, born 1845, death date 6/24/1928, newspaper publisher and founder of Jasper Newsboy. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
"East Texas' Mark Twain, Edward I. Kellie," by Bob Bowman, date unknown. Founder of Jasper News-boy. Texas Escapes Online Magazine .
31st Legislature (1909) - E.I. Kellie, Jasper, Jasper County, nativity South Carolina, Civil Engineer, Dem., age 63, 50 years in Texas. Texas Legislative Manual .
"Early Southeast Texas newspapers: history of yesteryear recorded in their yellowed pages," W.T. Block, Reprinted from Beaumont Enterprise-Journal, 1/1/1978, p. 10a. Edward Isaiah Kellie age 16 in Nov. 1860, state senator, died at Jasper abt. 1930. W.T. Block, Jr. .