Texas Legislators: Past & Present

John Atlas Peacock

Full Name: John Atlas Peacock
Birth date: November 23, 1845
Death date: February 26, 1922

Terms of Service

Senate, 19th ⁽¹⁾ & 18th ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ Legislatures
1/9/1883 - 1/11/1887
Democrat
House, 17th ⁽³⁾ Legislature
1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
Democrat

(1) Democrat, p. 163. Burke's Texas Almanac and Immigrants' Handbook for 1885 1885.
(2) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.
(3) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.
(4) 18th Legislature, Regular Session - All Senators except District 3 and 21 are listed in Roll Call as taking the oath of office, 1/9/1883, p. 2; resolution by Sen. Gooch that the Senators shall now be divided by lot into two classes, 1/10/1883, pp. 5-6; drew term of 4 years. Senate Journal . January 9, 1883
January 10, 1883

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. J.A. Peacock, Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Photograph. J.A. Peacock, State Preservation Board
Photograph. J.A. Peacock, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Confederate States Army, Ranger on the Texas border. John Atlas Peacock, death date 2/24/1922 in Tarrant County, widow Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Peacock, marriage date 4/14/1879 in Morris County. Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com .
Census of 1880 - John Peacock, Daingerfield, Morris County, age 33, born circa 1847 in Texas, attorney at law.
Census of 1900 - John A. Peacock, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, age 53, born November 1847 in Texas, lawyer. FamilySearch . 1900 1880
John A. Peacock, birth date 11/23/1845 in Texas, death date 2/24/1922 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, retired lawyer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
Obituary, "Funeral Monday for Fort Worth Pioneer," 2/26/1922, p. 8. "In his early law practice he formed a law partnership with John L. Sheppard . . . later serving as Morris County's Representative at the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Legislatures." Fort Worth Star-Telegram .
Biographical sketch, John Atlas Peacock, pp. 86-87. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
Biographical sketch, John Atlas Peacock, p. 238. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.