Texas Legislators: Past & Present

William Preston Bishop

Full Name: William Preston Bishop
Birth date: August 19, 1841
Death date: January 7, 1901

Biographical sketch, pp. 85-86. First married Mary McKamy, then Emma Simpson. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families 1889.
Confederate States Army, Colonel, 29th Regiment Tennessee Volunteers. Military grave marker, W.P. Bishop. William P. Bishop, birth date 8/19/1841, death date 1/7/1901, burial in Frankford Cemetery, Dallas, Collin County. Find a Grave .
Biographical sketch, W.P. Bishop, p. 11. Born in Hancock County, Tennessee, 44 years of age. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
Biographical sketch, Col. William P. Bishop, pp. 44-45, crediting the Dallas Genealogical Society.. Lindsley, Philip, A History of Greater Dallas and Vicinity, Volume 2, 1909, "served one term in the Texas legislature." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
William Preston Bishop, birth date 8/19/1841, death date 1/7/1901. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.