Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Benjamin Rush Plumly

Full Name: Benjamin Rush Plumly
Other surnames: Plumley
Birth date: May 15, 1816
Death date: December 9, 1887

Terms of Service

House, 20th ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁷⁾ Legislature
1/11/1887 - 12/9/1887
Republican
House, 17th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ Legislature
1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
Republican
House, 12th ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁸⁾ Legislature
2/8/1870 - 1/14/1873

(1) Republican, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(2) "In politics, Major Plumley was a Republican," discussion of Republican party in speeches by colleagues. 20th Legislature, 1st C.S., Memorial session and resolution, 5/4/1888, pp. 162-169. House Journal .
(3) 12th Legislature, Provisional Session - Qualified and took the oath of office on 2/8/1870. House Journal .
(4) Guy M. Bryan, sworn 5/2/1888, succeeded Benjamin R. Plumley, died 12/9/1887. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(5) Mr. Plumly is a "life-long Republican," p. 167. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
(6) Republican. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.
(7) 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) .
(8) Party affiliation, Radical. Texas Almanac for . . . and Emigrant's Guide to Texas .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

United States Army (Union Army), Civil War. Memorial resolution: "At the breaking out of the war between the states, in 1861, he with his two sons and son-in-law, entered the Union army and was assigned to duty on General Fremont's staff in Missouri. In 1863 he was made special agent of the United States treasury at New Orleans, and in 1864 and 1865 was chairman of the city board of education, which positions he held by appointment of President Lincoln." 20th Legislature, 1st C.S., Memorial session and resolution, 5/4/1888, House Journal, pp. 162-169. Resolutions - Memorial .
20th Legislature, 1st C.S., Memorial session and resolution, 5/4/1888, House Journal, pp. 162-169. Resolutions - Memorial .

Other Resources

B. Rush Plumly, age 72, burial in Trinity Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Galveston County. Find a Grave .
PLUMLY, BENJAMIN RUSH (1816-1887). Handbook of Texas Online .
Excerpts from Plumley's "Report of the Board of Education for Freedmen," submitted on February 28, 1865. Library of Congress .
Correspondence from Benjamin Rush Plumly to President Abraham Lincoln concerning the education of freedmen, 3/23/1865. "The Abraham Lincoln Papers," Library of Congress .
Portrait and biographical sketch, Benjamin Rush Plumly, pp. 167-168. "Made Speaker [in 12th Legislature], but declined it, and became leader of the House." Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
Biographical sketch. Born 3/10/1816. Virtual American Biographies 2000.