James Barrington Davis
Full Name: James Barrington Davis
Birth date: February 20, 1828
Death date: February 12, 1884
Birth date: February 20, 1828
Death date: February 12, 1884
Terms of Service
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House,
18th
(2)
Legislature
1/9/1883 - 2/12/1884
Democrat
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Senate,
10th
(3)
& 9th
(1)
(4)
Legislatures
10/24/1863 - 8/6/1866
(2) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.
(3) 10th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll call by district (holdover Senators), 11/2/1863, pp. 1-3. Senate Journal .
(4) 9th Legislature, Regular Session - Classification of Senators (drawing for terms of office) - predecessor John H. Crawford of Fannin drew "the long term" (four years), 11/12/1861, p. 42. Senate Journal .
Biographical Notes and Resources
Resolutions and Journal entries
- Memorial committee, resolution, and page, 19th Legislature, 3/30/1885, pp. 405, 409, 438-439. Resolutions - Memorial .
Photographs
- Photograph. J.B. Davis, State Preservation Board
Other Resources
- James B. Davis, Paris. Burke's Texas Almanac and Immigrants' Handbook for 1883 1883.
- Confederate States Army, Private, Company E, 34th Texas Cavalry. Born 2/20/1828 in Mount Sterling, Kentucky; elected to the Texas Senate in 1862; died 2/12/1884 in Whitesboro, Grayson County, and buried in the family plot, Evergreen Cemetery. Confederate Soldiers & the War Between the States in Northeast Texas: Including Delta, Fannin, Grayson, Lamar, Red River, and Titus Counties 2008.
- James B. Davis, birth date 2/20/1828, death date 2/12/1884, burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Paris, Lamar County. Find a Grave .
- Death notice in "State News," Brenham Weekly Banner, 2/14/1884, p. 2. "James B. Davis, representative to the legislature from Lamar county." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
- Biographical sketch, p. 254. Born 1829. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.
Committee Information
- 18th R.S. - 1883