Terms of Service

• House, 18th ⁽²⁾ Legislature
  1/9/1883 - 1/13/1885
  Democrat
  
• House, 16th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
  1/14/1879 - 1/11/1881
  Democrat
  

(1) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(2) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

• Photograph. Jas. Hurst, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Confederate States Army, Private, Company A, Griffin's Battalion, 21st Regiment, Texas Infantry. James Hurst of Running Water, Hale County, born circa 1831 in Indiana. Death date 7/17/1923 in Plainview, Hale County. Pension File No. 56318, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com .
• James Hurst, birth date 10/17/1830 in Putnam, Indiana; death date 7/17/1923 in Plainview, Hale County, Texas; retired farmer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
• James Hurst, birth date 10/17/1831, death date 7/17/1923, burial in Spring Creek Cemetery, Weatherford, Parker County. Find a Grave .
• Obituary, "James Hurst Buried, Hood Pays Tribute To His Memory," The Weekly Herald (Weatherford, Texas), 7/26/1923, p. 7. Born 1831 in Indiana. "He was also a member of the legislature for two terms, the 16th and the 18th." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
• Biographical sketch, p. 266. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.
• Biographical sketch, p. 260. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.

Committee Information

• 18th R.S. - 1883
• Judicial Districts  
• Public Debt  
• Validity of University Fund Claims in Comptroller's Office  
• 16th R.S. - 1879
• Agriculture and Stock Raising  
• Indian Affairs  
• Judicial Districts, Select  
• Public Buildings and Grounds  
• Public Health, Vital Statistics and History of Texas