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Santos Benavides

Sant. Benavides
Full Name: José de los Santos Benavides
Birth date: November 1, 1823
Death date: November 9, 1891

Terms of Service

  • House, 18th (5) Legislature
    1/9/1883 - 1/13/1885
    Democrat
  • House, 17th (1) (3) (4) (6) Legislature
    1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
    Unaffiliated
  • House, 16th (2) Legislature
    1/14/1879 - 1/11/1881
    Democrat
(1) Election returns list Benavides as an Independent, p. 1, 11/4/1880. Galveston Daily News .
(2) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(3) "In the legislative convention T.W. Keneday, of Starr county, was nominated for representative. Col. Santos Benavides will probably run independent," 10/7/1880, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(4) Independent Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(5) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.
(6) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

Photographs

Other Resources

  • Confederate States Army, Colonel, Texas Cavalry. Military grave marker, Santos Benavides, birth date 11/1/1823, death date 11/9/1891, burial in Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Laredo, Webb County. Includes portrait, biographical sketch, historical marker photo. Find a Grave .
  • 10th Legislature, 1st Called Session, Special Laws, Joint Resolution of thanks to Col. Santos Benavides and the officers and men under his command, approved 5/24/1864. General and Special Laws of the State of Texas .
  • BENAVIDES, SANTOS (1823-1891). Birth date 11/1/1823. Relatives: Basilio Benavides - uncle; Santos Benavides - nephew. Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Mentioned in TEJANO POLITICS. Listed among the Tejanos who served in the Texas House and Senate. Handbook of Texas Online .
  • BOTAS AND GUARACHES. In 1884, Santos Benavides was instrumental in the formation of the Guarache or citizen's party of South Texas, a faction of the democratic party opposed to the Botas. Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Confederate States Army, Colonel, 33rd Texas Cavalry (or Benavides' Regiment). Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Mentioned in Minority Civil Rights and the Texas Legislature 2018.
  • Part II, Historical Survey, "Secession and Civil War." Shared Experience: the History, Architecture and Historic Designations of the Lower Rio Grande Heritage Corridor 1994.
  • Biography in the LRL collection, 976.4 T374T 2017. Tejano Tiger: José de los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891 2017.
  • "The highest-ranking Mexican Texan in the Confederate Army," p. xxiv. Tejanos in Gray: Civil War Letters of Captains Joseph Rafael de La Garza and Manuel Yturri 2011.
  • Santos Benavides, birth date 11/1/1823, death date 11/9/1891. "In 1864 the Texas legislature formally thanked Benavides for his defense of Laredo and the border. Highest ranking Hispanic Confederate." Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
  • Historical marker, Santos Benavides, Saunders Street Catholic Cemetery, Laredo, Webb County. Birth date 11/1/1823. Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission) .
  • Biographical sketch and portrait, pp. 28-29, 121, Plate No. 51. Birth date 11/1/1821, death date 11/9/1891. Texas in the War, 1861-1865 1965.
  • Biographical sketch, p. 272. Born in Laredo, 11/1/1827. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.
  • Biographical sketch, p. 267. Born in Laredo, 11/1/1827. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.
  • Portrait and biographical sketch, Santos Benavides, pp. 324-330, including military correspondence. Types of Successful Men of Texas 1890.
  • Detailed account of Confederate States Army service throughout, including portrait. Captain, Benavides' Company, Texas Mounted Rifles; Major, 33rd Texas Cavalry; Colonel, Benavides' Regiment. Appendix A: Confederates, p. 180. Vaqueros in Blue and Gray 2000.
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