Texas Legislators: Past & Present

George Alexander Newton

Full Name: George Alexander Newton
Birth date: September 21, 1823
Death date: December 11, 1907

Terms of Service

House, 21st ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ Legislature
1/8/1889 - 1/13/1891
Democrat
House, 20th ⁽⁴⁾ Legislature
1/11/1887 - 1/8/1889
Democrat
House, 18th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ 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) Larissa post office closed in 1905. Handbook of Texas Online .
(3) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.
(4) Roster of senators and representatives of the 20th Legislature with their postoffice address, Austin Weekly Statesman, "Governmental," 12/30/1886, p. 6. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(5) 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. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. G.A. Newton, State Preservation Board
Photograph. G.A. Newton, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Possibly George A. Newton, Captain Beat No. 4, Cherokee County, 10th Brigade, Texas State Troops, 1862. Texas, U.S., Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900, Civil War Index - Captains and Civil War Index - Units. Ancestry.com .
G.A. Newton, birth date 9/21/1823, married to Mary Almira McKee 8/15/1843, death date 12/11/1907, photos, obituary from "Newspaper Obituaries 1836-1908 Cherokee County, Texas," burial in Larissa Cemetery, Mount Selman, Cherokee County. Find a Grave .
George Alex Newton, Democrat, farmer, age 66 in 1889, born in Tennessee. Legislative Reference Library Card File .
Mentioned in Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
Biographical sketch, George A. Newton, pp. 276-277. Born 9/21/1822 in Bedford County, Tennessee, married Mary A. McKee, of Marshall County, Tennessee, in 1843. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
"In 1862 he volunteered in the Confederate States service, and was detailed to command and conduct wagon trains with supplies for the troops from Henderson to San Antonio, Brownsville and elsewhere." Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
Biographical sketch, George Alexander Newton, McKee-Newton Family. Cherokee County Historical Commission, Cherokee County History, 2001, pp. 404-405, crediting Cherokee County Historical Commission. "He was elected to represent Cherokee County in the 18th, 20th, and 21st sessions of the Texas Legislature in the House of Representatives under Gov. L.S. 'Sul' Ross." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Biographical sketch, p. 251. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.