William Benjamin Wall
Full Name: William Benjamin Wall
Birth date: August 3, 1837
Death date: September 26, 1924
Birth date: August 3, 1837
Death date: September 26, 1924
Terms of Service
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House,
25th Legislature
1/12/1897 - 1/10/1899
Democrat
Biographical Notes and Resources
Photographs
- Photograph. W.B. Wall, State Preservation Board
Other Resources
- Wm. Benjamin Wall (1837-1924), burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Crockett, Houston County. Includes obituary, "Judge W.B. Wall Dead," source and date unknown, 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, William B. Wall, pp. 245-246. The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.
- 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.