Texas Legislators: Past & Present

John Hughes Cochran

Full Name: John Hughes Cochran
Birth date: June 28, 1838
Death date: October 20, 1928

Terms of Service

House, 23rd Legislature
1/10/1893 - 1/8/1895
Democrat
Speaker
House, 22nd ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
1/13/1891 - 1/10/1893
Democrat
House, 18th ⁽³⁾ Legislature
1/9/1883 - 1/13/1885
Democrat
House, 16th ⁽²⁾ Legislature
1/14/1879 - 1/11/1881
Democrat
Speaker
House, 15th Legislature
4/18/1876 - 1/14/1879
Democrat
House, 14th Legislature
1/13/1874 - 4/18/1876
Democrat

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(2) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. John Hughes Cochran, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
Photograph. J.H. Cochran, State Preservation Board
Photograph. J.H. Cochran, State Preservation Board
Photograph. J.H. Cochran, State Preservation Board
Photograph. J.H. Cochran, State Preservation Board
Photograph. J.H. Cochran, State Preservation Board
Photograph. J.H. Cochran, Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Other Resources

Biographical sketch. American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910 1989.
Confederate States Army, Private, Company C, 6th Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Wharton, Stone's). John H. Cochran, U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865. Ancestry.com .
Biographical sketches and portrait, John Hughes and Martha Jane Johnson Cochran, from Proud Heritage, Vol. 1 by DCPA. Dallas County Pioneers Association .
John H. Cochran, birth date 6/28/1838 in Tennessee, death date 10/20/1928 in Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas, stock farmer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
COCHRAN, JOHN HUGHES (1838-1928). Handbook of Texas Online .
Texas Rangers, Commander, traveled to Young County 1860. Confederate States Army, Private, Company C, 6th Texas Cavalry. Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch and portrait, John Hughes Cochran, p. 330. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
25th and 32nd Speaker of the House of Representatives: John Hughes Cochran. Photo and biographical sketch. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
Biographical sketch, John H. Cochran, pp. 113-114. ". . .came to Texas with his father in 1842. The family settled in Dallas county, and his father at one time represented it in the Legislature. Left fatherless at the age of fifteen. . ." Relatives: William M. Cochran, father; John H. Cochran, son. Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878 1876.
Biographical sketch, p. 251. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.
Biographical sketch, p. 257. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.