Texas Legislators: Past & Present

John Baker Stringer

Full Name: John Baker Stringer, Sr.
Birth date: January 23, 1845
Death date: September 15, 1895

Terms of Service

House, 20th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ Legislature
1/11/1887 - 1/8/1889
Democrat
House, 18th ⁽³⁾ Legislature
1/9/1883 - 1/13/1885
Democrat

(1) Titus County. House Journal .
(2) Mount Vernon, Franklin County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(3) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.
(4) John B. Stringer, Mt. Vernon. 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) Franklin County. Texas House of Representatives: A Pictorial Roster 1846-1992 1992.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. J.B. Stringer, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Confederate States Army, Company B, 25th Alabama Infantry, affidavits and correspondence. John B. Stringer (full name John Baker Stringer), death date 9/14/1895 in Franklin County, widow Mrs. Emma Stringer, marriage date 11/15/1877. Pension File No. 32832, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com .
Biographical sketch, Hon. John B. Stringer, p. 805. Born 1/23/1845 in Pike County, Alabama. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families 1889.
Confederate States Army, Company B, 25th Alabama, and Company D, 15th Confederate Cavalry. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families 1889.
J.B. Stringer, marriage to Emma Ray 11/15/1877 in Marion County. Census of 1880 - John B. Stringer, Mount Vernon, Franklin County, age 34, born circa 1846 in Alabama, county attorney, wife Emma.
John Baker Stringer and Emma Rhea, parents of Emily Ann Stringer, birth date 12/10/1888 in Mount Vernon, Texas, death date 2/1/1978 in Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County. FamilySearch . Texas Deaths, 1977-1986 1880

Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977

John B. Stringer, Sr., birth date 1/23/1845, death date 9/15/1895, burial in Providence Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Franklin County, with spouse Emma R. Stringer. Includes death notice in The Fort Worth Gazette, 9/17/1895. Find a Grave .
Biographical sketch, John B. Stringer, p. 183. Born 1845 in Pike County, Alabama, married Emma Ray. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
Death notice, Hon. J.B. Stringer, The Galveston Daily News, 9/18/1895, p. 3, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Biographical sketch, p. 254. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.