Texas Legislators: Past & Present

William Benjamin Wall

Full Name: William Benjamin Wall
Birth date: August 3, 1837
Death date: September 26, 1924

Wm. Benjamin Wall (1837-1924), burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Crockett, Houston County. Includes obituary, "Judge W.B. Wall Dead," noting his election as Houston County Judge and representative of the county in the legislature. Find a Grave .
Obituary, W.B. Wall, "Judge Wall of Crockett Dies," Houston Post-Dispatch, 9/28/1924, p. 6. Death date Friday, 9/26/1924. Wall "represented the county [Houston] in the legislature for two terms, this during the earlier days of the county." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Confederate States Army, Captain; wounded at Gaines' Mill while a soldier in 1st Texas Infantry, Hood's Brigade. Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature 1897.
Brief biographical sketch, W.B. Wall, pp. 153-154. Born in Amite County, Mississippi, in 1838. Houston County Judge, 1878-1886. Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature 1897.
Biographical sketch, Judge William Benjamin Wall, pp. 196-198. Born 8/3/1837 in Amite County, Mississippi. "In 1896 he was elected to the Texas Legislature and was instrumental in securing the submission of a constitutional amendment in favor of increased pensions for Confederate Veterans, and later in having a plank in the Democratic Platform in favor of a Home for Confederate soldiers and their widows." The History of Houston County, Texas 1943.