Terms of Service
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House,
23rd
(5)
Legislature
1/10/1893 - 7/17/1893
Democrat
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House,
17th
(2)
(8)
Legislature
1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
Democrat
-
House,
16th
(3)
Legislature
1/14/1879 - 1/11/1881
Democrat
-
Senate,
13th
(1)
(9)
(12)
Legislature
1/14/1873 - 1/13/1874
Democrat
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Senate,
9th
(4)
(6)
(7)
(10)
(11)
Legislature
11/4/1861 - 1/14/1862
(1)
Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Act passed Apr. 24, 1873 [presented to Governor May 1, 1873 and became law without his signature], 13th Legislature, R.S., ch. 35,
Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(2)
Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2.
Galveston Daily News .
(3)
Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1.
Galveston Daily News .
(4)
Current city of Port Lavaca orginally known as Lavaca.
Handbook of Texas Online .
(5)
Finlay resigned 7/17/1893.
Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(6)
S. Addison White, sworn 2/2/1863, succeeded George P. Finlay, resigned.
Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(7)
"On the adjournment of the Ninth Legislature, in March, 1862, Colonel Finlay raised a company of infantry in Victoria County, Texas, and was assigned to duty in the Sixth Texas infantry . . ."
Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
(8)
Democrat.
Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.
(9)
13th Legislature - Senators elect qualified and took their seats, 1/14/1873, p. 1.
Senate Journal .
(10)
9th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators, oath of office administered, 11/4/1861, p. 1.
Senate Journal .
(11)
9th Legislature, Regular Session - Classification of Senators (drawing for terms of office) - drew "the long term" (four years), 11/12/1861, p. 42.
Senate Journal .
(12)
13th Legislature - Included in list of 15 Senate members that were conservative Democrats, p. 145.
The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.