Terms of Service

• Senate, 28th ^{(3) (4)} Legislature
  1/13/1903 - 1/10/1905
  Democrat
  
• House, 27th Legislature
  1/8/1901 - 1/13/1903
  Democrat
  
• House, 26th ^{(1) (5)} Legislature
  1/10/1899 - 1/8/1901
  Democrat
  
• House, 24th Legislature
  1/8/1895 - 1/12/1897
  Democrat
  
• House, 23rd Legislature
  1/10/1893 - 1/8/1895
  Democrat
  
• House, 19th Legislature
  1/13/1885 - 1/11/1887
  Democrat
  
• House, 18th ⁽²⁾ Legislature
  1/9/1883 - 1/13/1885
  Democrat
  

(1) Paris, Lamar County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(2) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.
(3) 28th Legislature - Drawing for Terms of Office, 1/28/1903, pp. 107-108. Drew 2-year term. Senate Journal .
(4) 28th Legislature - Roll of Senators-elect, oath of office administered, 1/13/1903, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal .
(5) Travis [sic]. Texas Legislative Manual .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

• Photograph. Trav. Henderson, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Trav. Henderson, Texas State Library and Archives Commission
• Photograph. Travis Henderson, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Travis Henderson, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Travis Henderson, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Travis Henderson, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Confederate States Army, Captain, Company G, 32nd Texas Cavalry, enlistment and muster date 4/1/1862. Travis Clack Henderson, U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865; Travis Clack (or Clagg) Henderson, Tennessee, U.S., Confederate Officers Card Index, 1861-1865. Ancestry.com .
• Married Martha "Mattie" Sue Thomas in 1866 at Lamar County, brief information on legislative service, Volume 2, p. 125. Daughters of the Republic of Texas 1995.
• Confederate States Army, Captain, 32nd Dismounted Texas Cavalry. Grave marker and historical marker, Travis Clack Henderson, birth date 6/24/1836, death date 9/10/1919, burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Paris, Lamar County. Find a Grave .
• Biographical sketch, T.C. Henderson, p. 31. Born 1837 in Alabama. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
• Historical marker text, Travis Clack Henderson - Lamar County. Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission) .
• Biographical sketch, p. 254. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.
• Brief biographical sketch, Travis Henderson, pp. 203-204. Born 6/24/1840 in Alabama. The Twenty-Seventh Legislature and State Administration of Texas 1901.
• Biographical sketch, p. 170. Born 6/24/1840 in Alabama. Year Book for Texas, 1901 1902.

Committee Information

• 28th R.S. - 1903
• Agricultural Affairs  
• Commerce and Manufactures  
• Counties and County Boundaries  
• Federal Relations (Chair) 
• Finance  
• Investigate the fairness of the meeting of senators to determine by drawing of lots the lengths of their terms  
• Public Debts, Claims and Accounts  
• Public Health  
• Public Lands and Land Office  
• 27th R.S. - 1901
• Agricultural Affairs  
• County Government and County Finances  
• Examination of Comptroller's and Treasurer's Accounts  
• Internal Improvements  
• Penitentiaries  
• Public Printing  
• Railroad Commission  
• Roads, Bridges and Ferries  
• Senatorial Districts  
• State Investigating (Chair) 
• Towns and City Corporations (Chair) 
• Walker, Austin Opera House Manager, Investigate  
• 26th R.S. - 1899
• Claims and Accounts  
• Finance (Chair) 
• Public Buildings and Grounds  
• Revenue and Taxation  
• Rules  
• State Reformatory, Joint Committee on  
• Towns and City Corporations  
• 24th R.S. - 1895
• Agricultural Affairs  
• Claims and Accounts (Chair) 
• Finance  
• Roads, Bridges and Ferries  
• State Asylums  
• 23rd R.S. - 1893
• Comptroller's and Treasurer's Accounts, Examination of  
• Finance  
• Insurance, Statistics and History  
• Revenue and Taxation  
• State Asylums  
• Town and City Corporations  
• 19th R.S. - 1885
• Capitol Contract  
• Comptroller's and Treasurer's Office, Examine (Chair) 
• Finance  
• Memorial Resolutions for Hons. J.P. Ayres, J.B. Davis, and George Meriwether, Members of the Eighteenth Legislature  
• Revenue and Taxation  
• State Asylums  
• 18th R.S. - 1883
• Agricultural Affairs  
• Internal Improvements  
• Public Roads, Bridges and Ferries  
• Revenue and Taxation  
• State Affairs