Texas Legislators: Past & Present

William Jesse Swain

Full Name: William Jesse Swain
Birth date: February 19, 1839
Death date: December 20, 1904

Terms of Service

Senate, 17th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽³⁾ & 16th ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ Legislatures
1/14/1879 - 1/9/1883
Democrat
House, 14th Legislature
1/13/1874 - 4/18/1876
Democrat

(1) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(2) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.
(4) 16th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll call of newly elected Senators, oath of office administered, 1/14/1879, p. 3. Senate Journal .
(5) Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. W.J. Swain, State Preservation Board
Photograph. W.J. Swain, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Reports from the San Antonio Herald and the progressive Paris Progress on the status of the democratic party, p. 3, 2/12/1880. Galveston Daily News .
SWAIN, WILLIAM JESSE (1839-1904). Birth date 2/19/1839. Handbook of Texas Online .
Confederate States Army, First Lieutenant, Company F, Whifield's Legion. Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch, pp. 68-69. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
Biographical sketch, pp. 240-241. Born in 1839. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.
Biographical sketch, p. 232. Born in 1839. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.
Swain, William Jesse. Birth date 2/19/1840 on headstone. Texas State Cemetery .
Biographical sketch, Hon. William Jesse Swain, pp. 403-404. The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.