Robert Coleman Foster
Full Name: Robert Coleman Foster
Birth date: September 10, 1834
Death date: January 6, 1910
Birth date: September 10, 1834
Death date: January 6, 1910
Terms of Service
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House,
19th Legislature
1/13/1885 - 1/11/1887
Democrat
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House,
18th
(2)
Legislature
1/9/1883 - 1/13/1885
Democrat
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House,
16th
(1)
Legislature
1/14/1879 - 1/11/1881
Democrat
(2) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.
Biographical Notes and Resources
Photographs
- Photograph. R.C. Foster, State Preservation Board
- Photograph. R.C. Foster, State Preservation Board
Other Resources
- Robert Coleman Foster, birth date 9/10/1834, death date 1/6/1910, burial in Fairview Cemetery, Denison, Grayson County. Includes photo from the "Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society," (Kansas State Historical Society, 1909). Find a Grave .
- Biographical sketch, R.C. Foster, pp. 25-26. Born 9/10/1834 in Logan County, Kentucky. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
- Obituary, "Col. R.C. Foster Dead: Denison Loses One of Its Most Prominent and Useful Citizens," The Sunday Gazetteer (Denison, Texas), 1/9/1910, p. 1, crediting Grayson County Frontier Village. Member of the Kansas constitutional convention in 1866 and the Kansas Legislature for three terms; twice a member of the Texas Legislature from 1878-1882 [sic]. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
- Biographical sketch, Robert C. Foster, p. 265. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.
- Biographical sketch, p. 255. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.
Committee Information
- 19th R.S. - 1885
- Educational (Chair)
- 18th R.S. - 1883
- Fence Cutting (Chair)
- 16th R.S. - 1879
- Revised Civil Code, Select (Chair)