Terms of Service

• Senate, 25th Legislature
  1/12/1897 - 1/27/1898
  Democrat
  
• House, 19th ⁽³⁾ Legislature
  1/13/1885 - 11/16/1885
  Democrat
  
• House, 17th ^{(1) (4)} Legislature
  1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
  Democrat
  
• House, 16th ⁽²⁾ Legislature
  1/14/1879 - 1/11/1881
  Democrat
  
• House, 14th Legislature
  1/13/1874 - 4/18/1876
  Democrat
  

(1) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(2) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Linn resigned 11/16/1885. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(4) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

• 26th Legislature, R.S., 1/30/1899, p. 184. "The House of Representatives have heard with profound sorrow of the death of Hon. Ed. Linn." Resolutions - Memorial .
• 26th Legislature, R.S., 1/30/1899, p. 118. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

• Photograph. E.D. Linn, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. E.D. Linn, Texas State Library and Archives Commission
• Photograph. E.D. Linn, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. E.D. Linn, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Mentioned in VICTORIA ADVOCATE. Handbook of Texas Online .
• JOHN JOSEPH LINN (1798-1885) served in Second and Third congresses of the Republic of Texas, 1837-1839. Relatives: John Joseph Linn - father; Edward Daniel Linn - son. Handbook of Texas Online .
• LINN, EDWARD DANIEL (1848-1898). Handbook of Texas Online .
• Biographical sketch, E.D. Linn, pp. 39-40. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
• 25th Legislature (1897) - E.D. Linn, postoffice Victoria, county Victoria, nativity Texas, editor, Democrat, served in former sessions: 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 19th House. Texas Legislative Manual .
• Biographal sketch, p. 267. "Elected to the Fifteenth Legislature to fill a vacancy." Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.
• Biographical sketch, Edward D. Linn, pp. 28-30. Born 12/18/1848 in Victoria. Father John J. Linn. Brother William F. Linn was engrossing clerk in the Senate in the 25th "and previous Texas legislatures." Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature 1897.

Committee Information

• 25th R.S. - 1897
• Claims and Accounts (Chair) 
• Commerce and Manufacturing  
• Counties and County Boundaries  
• Finance  
• Insurance, Statistics and History (Chair) 
• Investigation Relative to Missing Amendment to S.B. No. 258 - Text-book Bill, Special  
• Public Lands  
• Public Printing  
• 19th R.S. - 1885
• Comptroller's and Treasurer's Office, Examine  
• Contingent Expenses  
• Educational  
• Funeral of General William Steele  
• Laying the Cornerstone of the New Capitol (Co-Chair) 
• Memorial Resolutions for Hons. J.P. Ayres, J.B. Davis, and George Meriwether, Members of the Eighteenth Legislature  
• Revenue and Taxation (Chair) 
• 17th R.S. - 1881
• Engrossed Bills (Chair) 
• Finance  
• Public Debt  
• Public Printing  
• State Printing Office at the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb (Chair) 
• Stockraising  
• 16th R.S. - 1879
• Agriculture and Stock Raising  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Engrossed Bills (Chair) 
• Finance  
• Funeral and Remains of the Late Honorable Gustave Schleicher (Co-Chair) 
• Penal Code, Select  
• Printing  
• Privileges and Elections  
• Public Debt  
• Public Health, Vital Statistics and History of Texas  
• 14th R.S. - 1874
• Asylum and Public Building Repairs  
• Bureau of Tax Rolls in Comptroller's Department  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Counties and County Boundaries  
• Enrolled Bills (Chair) 
• Federal Relations  
• Immigration  
• Printing and Contingent Expenses  
• Removal of Judge L.M. Cooper, 3rd Judicial District  
• Vacancy in 13th Senatorial District, I.N. Baughman