Alexander Asberry
Full Name: Alexander "Alex" Asberry
Birth date: November 2, 1861
Death date: 1903
Birth date: November 2, 1861
Death date: 1903
Terms of Service
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House,
21st
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Legislature
1/8/1889 - 1/13/1891
Republican
(2) Robertson County in district 48, 17th Legislature, 1st C.S., chapter 13, p. 11. (Redistricting bill). General Laws of the State of Texas .
(3) Lists district number 43 for Alex Asberry. House Journal .
(4) Republican - Delegate to National Republican Convention in 1888. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
(5) A. Asberry, Elias Mays, and R.B. Renfro [Rentfro], Republicans. 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. "The star indicates republican; those unmarked are democrats. [Note - Quite a number of the members who are marked democrats were elected as independents.]" Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Biographical Notes and Resources
Resolutions and Journal entries
- 79th Legislature, R.S., HR 589, paying tribute to African American legislators and constitutional convention delegates of 1868-1900. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
- 81st Legislature, R.S., HCR 81, paying tribute to African American legislators and constitutional convention delegates. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
- 85th Legislature, R.S., HR 452, celebrating Black History Month and honoring the leadership and vision of African American lawmakers. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
Photographs
- Photograph. A. Asberry, State Preservation Board
- Photograph. Alexander Asberry, State Preservation Board
Other Resources
- Portrait and biographical sketch. Forever Free: Nineteenth Century African-American Legislators and Constitutional Convention Delegates of Texas 2002.
- ASBERRY, ALEXANDER (1861-ca. 1903). Birth date 11/2/1861. Handbook of Texas Online .
- Mentioned in HEARNE ACADEMY. Handbook of Texas Online .
- Mentioned in Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants 1970.
- Biographical sketch and descendants, pp. 95-97. Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants: A History of the Negro in Texas Politics from Reconstruction to Disfranchisement 1935.
- Biographical sketch, Alexander Asberry, pp. 249-250. Born 11/2/1861 at Wilderville, Falls County. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
- Biographical sketch, Chapter VI, "Black Belt Politics," p. 110. The Negro in Texas, 1874-1900 1971.
- Biographical sketch, pp. 65-66. Birth date 11/1/1861. Death year 1903, Appendix D. Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares: Black Leadership in Texas, 1868-1898 2016.
Committee Information
- 21st R.S. - 1889