Texas Legislators: Past & Present

William Licken Harrison

Full Name: William Licken Harrison
Birth date: November 5, 1831
Death date: February 14, 1915

Terms of Service

Senate, 25th ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ ⁽⁷⁾ & 24th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ Legislatures
1/8/1895 - 1/10/1899
Populist

(1) Populist. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(2) Discussion of populists elected to 24th Legislature, populist pluralities by county, and roster with party affiliation, "Official Returns," "The Next Legislature," The Galveston Daily News, 11/15/1894, p. 6, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(3) Populist. Roster, "News from Austin: Twenty-Fourth Legislature," The Galveston Daily News, 12/23/1894, p. 2, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(4) 25th Legislature - Roll of holdover Senators, 1/12/1897, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(5) 24th Legislature - Roll of Senators-elect, oath of office administered, 1/8/1895, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(6) Populist. Texas Legislative Manual .
(7) Member of Peoples Party. Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature 1897.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. W.L. Harrison, State Preservation Board
Photograph. W.L. Harrison, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Census of 1870 - Willis Harrison, Gatesville post office, Coryell County, age 38, born circa 1832 in Alabama, physician, living in household with Lydia Harrison.
Census of 1880 - Willis Harrison, Bell County, age 48, born circa 1832 in Alabama, minister, wife Lydia.
Census of 1900 - Willis R. Harrison, Bell County, age 68, born November 1831 in Alabama, preacher, wife Cathreen G.
Census of 1910 - Willis L. Harrison, Bell County, age 78, born circa 1832 in Alabama, minister/gospel, wife Katie E. FamilySearch . 1910 1900

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1870

William L. Harrison, birth date 11/5/1831 in Florence, Alabama; death date 2/14/1915 in Troy, Bell County, Texas; physician. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
W.L. Harrison, birth date 11/5/1831, death date 2/14/1915, photos, biographical sketch of William Licken Harrison, burial in Hillcrest Cemetery, Temple, Bell County. Find a Grave .
HARRISON, WILLIS L. (1831–1912). Handbook of Texas Online .
Death notice, Dr. W.L. Harrison, "Another Old Citizen Gone," The Bartlett Tribune and News, 2/19/1915, p. 1, crediting Bartlett Activities Center and the Historical Society of Bartlett. Harrison was "one-time State Senator from the Temple district"; "In 1892 decedent was elected State Senator on the Populist ticket and represented this district in the Legislature for a period of four years." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Bell County Historical Commission, Biographical sketch of William Licken Harrison and photograph of Dr. and Mrs. W.L. Harrison, Volume II, pp. 590-591. Courtesy of the Bell County Museum. Story of Bell County, Texas 1988.
Confederate States Army; physician and surgeon until 1877. Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature 1897.
Biographical sketch, William L. Harrison, pp. 62-63. Born 11/5/1831 in Lauderdale County, Alabama. Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature 1897.
Willis Lyman Harrison, plate 18, pp. 155, 284-288, 292, 297, 306-307, 314, 321, and 479 note 18. The People's Revolt: Texas Populists and the Roots of American Liberalism 2020.