Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Allen Kenedy Swan

Full Name: Allen Kenedy Swan
Birth date: May 5, 1848
Death date: January 17, 1918

Terms of Service

House, 22nd ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
1/13/1891 - 1/10/1893
Democrat
House, 18th ⁽²⁾ 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. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. A.K. Swan, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, A.K. Swan, pp. 808-809. Born 5/5/1848 in Hamilton County, Tennessee. First marriage in 1869 to Alice Brown, who died in December 1872, second marriage to Inez Harston on 11/21/1876. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families 1889.
Census of 1880 - Allen K. Swan, Henrietta, Clay County, Texas, age 31, born circa 1849 in Tennessee, attorney at law, wife Inez.
Census of 1900 - Allen K. Swan, Duncan town, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, age 52, lawyer, born May 1848 in Tennessee, wife Inez A. FamilySearch . 1880 1900
Obituary, "Hon. A.K. Swan Dead," The Duncan Weekly Eagle (Duncan, Oklahoma), 1/24/1918, p. 4. Married Inez Hartson on 11/21/1867. Death date 1/17/1918. "In 1880 he was again elected to the same office [county attorney of Clay county, Texas] but resigned after 18 months to enter the 18th session of the state legislature . . . He was the author of Sec. 5, of the Land Bill, that was passed during that session which entitled people who had settled on school lands to purchase them for $1.00 per acre . . . " Newspapers.com .
Portrait and biographical sketch, Allen Kenedy Swan, pp. 303-306. Born 8/5/1848 in Hamilton County, Tennessee. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Confederate States Army, Company F, Arkansas volunteers, under Colonel Cooper, in Jackman's brigade. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Biographical sketch, Allen K. Swan, p. 260. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.