Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Marcus Harvey Townsend

Full Name: Marcus Harvey Townsend
Birth date: March 26, 1858
Death date: June 28, 1915

Terms of Service

Senate, 22nd ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ ⁽⁷⁾ & 21st ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ Legislatures
1/8/1889 - 1/10/1893
Democrat
House, 18th ⁽³⁾ Legislature
1/9/1883 - 1/13/1885
Democrat

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(2) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(3) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.
(4) List of Senators of the 21st Legislature, "The State Senate: Members-Elect in the Different Districts - Austin Local Notes," Galveston Daily News, 11/20/1888, p. 6, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. "There are two independents in the list. The rest are democratic nominees." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(5) 21st Legislature - Roll call of new members, oath of office administered, 1/8/1889, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(6) 22nd Legislature - 1/13/1891, p. 1, M.H. Townsend not listed in roll call; "on motion of Sen. Maetze, Sen. Townsend was excused indefinitely." Served one Senate term: see note, The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889. Senate Journal .
(7) 22nd Legislature - 1/14/1891, p. 5. Seats formerly occupied by Townsend, Kimbrough & Burney were reserved for them, seat formerly occupied by his predecessor was reserved for Carter, those Sens. being absent. Kimbrough indefinitely excused. Senate Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. M.H. Townsend, State Preservation Board
Photograph. M.H. Townsend, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Mentions Marcus Harvey Townsend. Part 9. Consider the Lily: the Ungilded History of Colorado County, Texas .
M.H. Townsend, born 1858; death date 6/28/1915 in San Antonio, Bexar County; lawyer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
Marcus H. Townsend, birth date 3/26/1858, death date 6/28/1915, burial in Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Bexar County. Includes reprint of obituary in Weimar Mercury, 7/2/1915. Find a Grave .
Portrait and biographical sketch, M.H. Townsend, pp. 178-180. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
Biographical sketch, M.H. Townsend, pp. 221-222. Born 3/26/1858 in Colorado County, married Annie E. Burford on 12/20/1883. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Obituary, "M.H. Townsend, Author of Bill to Buy Alamo, Dies," San Antonio Express, 6/29/1915, p. 16, crediting Abilene Library Consortium.
Funeral service and photo, "Many Texas Friends at Bier of H.M. [M.H.] Townsend," San Antonio Express, 6/30/1915, p. 7, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) . June 30, 2015 June 29, 1915
Biographical sketch, W.H. Townsend, p. 264. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.
Roster lists name as M.H. Townsend. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.
Biographical sketch, Marcus Harvey Townsend, p. 387. Born 3/26/1858, died in 1915, " . . . elected to the Senate's Eleventh District seat in 1888 and served one term during the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Legislatures." The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.