Texas Legislators: Past & Present

David Derden

Full Name: David "Dave" Derden
Birth date: November 15, 1846
Death date: February 28, 1918

Terms of Service

House, 26th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ Legislature
1/10/1899 - 1/8/1901
Democrat
House, 22nd ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
1/13/1891 - 1/10/1893
Democrat

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(2) District 17: Hunt and Kaufman counties; District 77: Hill, Bosque and Hamilton counties; 22nd Legislature, 1 C.S., chapter 21. General Laws of the State of Texas .
(3) District 77: Hill, Bosque, Hamilton, and Somervell counties. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(4) District 17: Hill, Bosque, Hamilton and Somervell counties. Texas Legislative Manual .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

35th Legislature, 4th C.S., 3/4/1918, p. 116. Death date 3/1/1918. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

Photograph. Dave Derden, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Confederate States Army, Sergeant and Private, Company K, 13th Texas Regiment Volunteers, which subsequently became Company F, 15th Texas Infantry Regiment, enlisted 11/11/1861. David Derden, death date 2/28/1918 in Potter County, Texas. Widow Mrs. Texanna Derden of Hillsboro, Hill County, marriage date 7/18/1870 in Hill County. Pension File No. 36334, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com .
David Derden, birth date 11/15/1846, death date 2/28/1918, burial in Hillsboro City Cemetery, Hill County, with spouse Texanna Derden. Find a Grave .
Obituary, "A Pioneer Is Dead: Captain David Derden of Amarillo Was 71 Years Old," The Wichita Beacon (Wichita, Kansas), 3/2/1918, p. 1. "He was a representative to the state legislature from Hill county, Texas, for three terms and also held the office of district and county clerk while in that county." Newspapers.com .
Portrait and biographical sketch, David Derden, pp. 284-285. Born 11/15/1846 in Perry County, Alabama; married Texana Collins in Hill County, 1871. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Biographical sketch, David Derden. Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas, 1892, pp. 506-507, crediting Dallas Genealogical Society. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .