Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Lafayette Lumpkin Foster

Full Name: Lafayette Lumpkin Foster
Birth date: November 27, 1851
Death date: December 2, 1901

Terms of Service

House, 19th Legislature
1/13/1885 - 1/11/1887
Democrat
Speaker
House, 18th ⁽³⁾ Legislature
1/9/1883 - 1/13/1885
Democrat
House, 17th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ Legislature
1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
Democrat

(1) "The entire democratic ticket to be elected by majorities ranging from 500 to 800 . . . L.L. Foster, editor of the Era, is elected representative," 11/17/1880. Galveston Daily News .
(2) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.
(4) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Photographs

Photograph. Lafayette Lumpkin Foster, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
Photograph. L.L. Foster, Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Photograph. L.L. Foster, State Preservation Board
Photograph. L.L. Foster, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Biographical sketch. American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910 1989.
FOSTER, LAFAYETTE LUMPKIN (1851-1901). Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch, L.L. Foster, pp. 4-5. "He has the honor of being the youngest man ever elected Speaker of the House in Texas." Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
Portrait and biographical sketch, L.L. Foster, Commissioner of Insurance, Statistics and History, pp. 31-33. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
Brief biographical sketch, L.L. Foster, Commissioner of Insurance, Statistics and History, p. 97. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
Portrait and biographical sketch, L.L. Foster, Railroad Commissioner, pp. 102-104. Born 11/27/1851 near Cumming, Forsyth County, Georgia. "The Twenty-second Legislature having created a commission to regulate the charges and operation of railway corporations in Texas, Mr. Foster was, May 4, 1891, appointed by Governor Hogg one of the three commissioners provided for by the act and is now filling that position." Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
28th Speaker of the House of Representatives: Lafayette Lumpkin Foster. Photo and biographical sketch. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
Railroad Commissioners Past through Present, with dates of service. Railroad Commission of Texas .
Biographical sketch, p. 263. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.
Biographical sketch, L.L. Foster, President of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, pp. 31-32. The Twenty-Seventh Legislature and State Administration of Texas 1901.
Biographical sketch, pp. 156-157. Elected by the people of the 52nd district [sic] in 1880, 1882, and 1884. Year Book for Texas, 1901 1902.