Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Francis Marion Martin

Full Name: Francis Marion Martin
Birth date: April 1, 1830
Death date: June 11, 1903

Terms of Service

Senate, 17th ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ & 16th ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ ⁽⁸⁾ Legislatures
1/14/1879 - 1/9/1883
Democrat
Senate President Pro Tempore, elected 3/31/1881, Regular Session; and 1st C.S.
Senate, 8th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁷⁾ ⁽⁹⁾ Legislature
11/7/1859 - 11/4/1861

(1) Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Act passed Feb. 6, 1860, 8th Legislature, ch. 45, Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(2) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(4) Elected to the Senate in 1859 as a supporter of Sam Houston who was elected governor as an Independent. Handbook of Texas Online .
(5) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.
(6) 16th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll call of newly elected Senators, oath of office administered, 1/14/1879, p. 3. Senate Journal .
(7) 8th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators elected since the last adjournment, oath of office administered, 11/7/1859, p. 2. Senate Journal .
(8) Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.
(9) 8th Legislature - One of 15 newcomers to the Senate, 8th Regular Session, p. 302. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. Francis Marion Martin, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
Photograph. Francis Marion Martin, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature
Photograph. Lt. Governor Marion Martin, 18th Legislature composite photo of the Texas House of Representatives, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Marion Martin, Constitutional Convention of 1875 Composite Photo. From the collection of the Texas State Library and Archives Commisison.
Photograph. Lt. Governor Marion Martin, 18th Legislature composite photo of the Texas Senate, State Preservation Board
Photograph. M. Martin, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Lt. Governor F. Marion Martin, burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, Navarro County. Find a Grave .
MARTIN, FRANCIS MARION (1830-1903). Handbook of Texas Online .
Confederate States Army, Captain, Company C, 20th Texas Cavalry. Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch, Marion Martin. Lewis Publishing Company. A Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas, 1893, pp. 797-798, crediting Palestine Public Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
14th Lieutenant Governor: Frances Marion Martin. Photo and biographical sketch. Born 4/1/1830 in Livingston County, Kentucky; died 6/11/1903 in Corsicana, Texas. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
Biographical sketch and portrait. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature 1860.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1875. Included in Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Texas: Begun and Held at the City of Austin Texas. Constitutional Convention (1875). Galveston : Printed for the Convention at the "News" Office, 1875, pp. 3-4. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
Biographical sketch, Marion Martin, p. 243. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.
Biographical sketch, Marion Martin, pp. 231-232. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.
Obituary, "Hon. Marion Martin Dead," 6/14/1903, p. 4. Waco Times-Herald .