Terms of Service

• House, 18th ^{(3) (5)} Legislature
  1/9/1883 - 1/13/1885
  Democrat
  
• House, 17th ^{(1) (2) (4)} Legislature
  1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
  Democrat
  

(1) "J.P. Ayers, for representative, together with the straight democratic ticket, is elected. This is the first complete triumph of the democracy in Brazos since the war," p. 1, 11/5/1880. Galveston Daily News .
(2) Independent Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.
(4) J.P. Ayres, Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.
(5) Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

• Memorial committee, resolution, and page, 19th Legislature, 3/30/1885, pp. 405, 409, 438-439. Death year estimated from memorial date in Journal. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

• Photograph. J.P. Ayers, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Biographical sketch, p. 261. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.

Committee Information

• 18th R.S. - 1883
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Educational Affairs  
• Federal Relations  
• Judiciary No. 1  
• Public Debt (Chair) 
• State Fish Commission, Select  
• 17th R.S. - 1881
• Agricultural and Mechanical College and State Normal Schools, Visit  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Educational Affairs  
• Military Affairs  
• Towns and City Corporations