Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Charles Louis Wurzbach

Full Name: Charles Louis Wurzbach
Other surnames: Wurzback
Birth date: November 25, 1835
Death date: August 26, 1892

Terms of Service

House, 22nd ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
1/13/1891 - 8/26/1892
Democrat
House, 18th ⁽⁵⁾ Legislature
1/9/1883 - 1/13/1885
Democrat
House, 17th ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ Legislature
1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
Democrat
House, 16th ⁽³⁾ Legislature
1/14/1879 - 1/11/1881
Democrat
House, 15th ⁽⁴⁾ Legislature
4/18/1876 - 1/14/1879
Democrat

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(2) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(4) Mentioned in "The news from Austin . . . Resignations of Representative Barziza and four others accepted after critical debate . . . Hunter restored to his seat . . . Other resignations not improbable," Thursday, 8/3/1876, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(5) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.
(6) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.

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. C.L. Wurzbach, State Preservation Board
Photograph. C.L. Wurzbach, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Chas. L. Wurzbach, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

United States Army (1850s), Indian service on the Western frontier; Confederate States Army, Sibley's Brigade and Transmississippi Department; Texas State Rangers after the Civil War. A History of Texas and Texans 1914.
Biographical sketch of Judge Charles L. Wurzbach included in article on son George C. Wurzbach, D.D.S., Volume III, pp. 1247-1248. Relatives: Charles L. Wurzbach, father; William A. Wurzbach, son. A History of Texas and Texans 1914.
Wurzbach family group sheet. Relatives: Charles Louis Wurzbach - father; William A. Wurzbach - son. Relatives: William A. Wurzbach - uncle; Robert [Christian] Eckhardt - nephew. Descendants of Johann Jonathan Wurzbach 2007.
WURZBACH, CHARLES LOUIS (1835-1892). Handbook of Texas Online .
Geneaology and biographical sketch of Charles L. Wurzbach. Daughter Norma was the mother of Robert Christian Eckhardt. Relatives: Charles Louis Wurzbach - grandfather; Robert Christian Eckhart - grandson, With the makers of San Antonio. . . HeritageQuest Online .
Portrait and biographical sketch, Charles L. Wurzbach, pp. 248-249. Born 11/24/1835 in Germany, married Kate Fink of La Grange on 11/12/1866. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Biographical sketch, p. 139. Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878 1876.
Biographical sketch, Charles L. Wurzback, pp. 270-271. Roster spells name Wurzbach. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.
Biographical sketch, p. 268. Born in Germany in November, 1834. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.
Charles Wurzbach mentioned in biography of his brother Emil 'Dutch' Wurzbach, Texas Wanderlust: the Adventures of Dutch Wurzbach 1997.