Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Constantine Buckley Kilgore

Full Name: Constantine Buckley "Buck" Kilgore
Birth date: February 20, 1835
Death date: September 23, 1897

Terms of Service

Senate, 19th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ Legislature
1/13/1885 - 10/23/1885
Democrat
Senate President Pro Tempore, elected 3/31/1885, Regular Session.

(1) Democrat, p. 163. Burke's Texas Almanac and Immigrants' Handbook for 1885 1885.
(2) Constantine Kilgore resigned 10/23/1885. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(3) 19th Legislature - Roll call of new members, oath of office administered, 1/13/1885, p. 1. Senate Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. C.B. Kilgore, Constitutional Convention of 1875 Composite Photo. From the collection of the Texas State Library and Archives Commisison.
Photograph. C.B. Kilgore, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

"Buck" Kilgore mentioned in biographical sketch of father Alton W. Birdwell, pp. 254-258. A Centennial History of Anderson County Texas 1936.
Biographical sketch, Constantine Buckley Kilgore, p. 134. A History of Rusk County, Texas 1961.
KILGORE, Constantine Buckley (1835-1897). Representative, TX, "elected to the State senate in 1884 for a term of four years . . . resigned from the State senate in 1886, having been elected to Congress." Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress .
Biographical sketch, pp. 22-27. Delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1875. Constitutional Convention, a New Beginning: Two Constitutions, 1875 and 1974 1974.
C.B. Kilgore, birth date 2/20/1835, death date 9/23/1897, portrait, burial in White Rose Cemetery, Wills Point, Van Zandt County. Find a Grave .
KILGORE, CONSTANTINE BUCKLEY (1835-1897). Handbook of Texas Online .
KILGORE, TEXAS (Gregg County) named for Constantine Buckley Kilgore. Handbook of Texas Online .
Confederate States Army, Captain, Company G, 10th Confederate Cavalry; Adjutant General of his brigade. Handbook of Texas Online .
Article, "Early Politico Bucked House, Won by Nose," by Van Craddock, 7/26/2003. Longview News-Journal .
Biographical sketch, C.B. Kilgore, p. 85. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
Biographical sketch, C.B. Kilgore, pp. 52-53. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
Biographical sketch, C.B. Kilgore, pp. 131-133. "Having received the nomination for Congress, by the Democratic convention of September, 1886, he resigned his place in the State Senate, leaving two years of his term unexpired." Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
Portrait and biographical sketch, C.B. Kilgore, Representative, Third Congressional District, pp. 165-173. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Biographical sketch, pp. 159-160. Texans Who Wore the Gray 1907.
Constantine Buckley Kilgore, birth date 2/20/1835, death date 9/20/1897. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1875. Included in Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Texas: Begun and Held at the City of Austin Texas. Constitutional Convention (1875). Galveston : Printed for the Convention at the "News" Office, 1875, pp. 3-4. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
Biographical sketch, pp. 4-5, 158-159. Texas in the War, 1861-1865 1965.
Biographical sketch, "Kilgore: The Town & The Name." Gregg County, TXGenWeb Project .