Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Benjamin Green Selman

Full Name: Benjamin Green Selman
Birth date: February 15, 1839
Death date: October 12, 1892

Terms of Service

House, 22nd Legislature
1/13/1891 - 10/12/1892
Democrat
House, 21st ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ Legislature
1/8/1889 - 1/13/1891
Democrat

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(2) Roster of Representatives of the 21st Legislature, "Twenty-First Legislature: Members of the House, Address, Occupation and Politics," Galveston Daily News, 1/5/1889, p. 2, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

23rd Legislature, R.S., Memorial resolution by Wilson, 1/17/1893, p. 82; Committee report and biographical sketches of Hon. C.L. Wurzbach and Hon. B.G. Selman, 4/5/1893, pp. 866-867; Motion to add the name of Hon. A.J. Chambers, 4/10/1893, pp. 917-918; Memorial service and memorial page, 4/10/1893, pp. 918-923. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

Photograph. B.G. Selman, State Preservation Board
Photograph. B.G. Selman, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Confederate States Army, 1st Lieutenant, Company C, 6th Arkansas Infantry, entered the service 7/26/1861, promoted to Captain, Company C, 11/5/1864; other records show promotion 1/16/1865. Benjamin G. Selman, death date 10/12/1892 in Smith County, Texas; widow Mrs. Mary A. Selman, marriage date 2/18/1868 in St. Louis, Missouri. Pension File No. 30480 (B.G. Selman), Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com .
B.G. Selman, birth date 2/15/1839 in Lafayette, Alabama, death date 10/12/1892, burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Tyler, Smith County. Find a Grave .
Benjamin G. Selman, Democrat, doctor, age 51 in 1891, born in Alabama. Legislative Reference Library Card File .
Biographical sketch, Benjamin Green Selman, pp. 273-274. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
Biographical sketch, Benjamin Green Selman, pp. 306-307. Born 2/15/1839 in Chambers County, Alabama. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Confederate States Army, Captain, Company C, 6th regiment of infantry of Arkansas volunteers, Govan's brigade, Cleburn's division, Hardee's corps, army of Tennessee. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Biographical sketch of Dr. B.G. Selman in Volume I, Chapter XLVIII, James McFadin and Family, pp. 215-216. Some Biographies of Old Settlers, Historical, Personal and Reminiscent 1900.