Texas Legislators: Past & Present

George Robertson Reeves

Full Name: George Robertson Reeves
Birth date: January 3, 1826
Death date: September 5, 1882

Terms of Service

House, 17th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ Legislature
1/11/1881 - 9/5/1882
Democrat
Speaker
House, 16th ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ Legislature
1/14/1879 - 1/11/1881
Democrat
House, 14th Legislature
1/13/1874 - 4/18/1876
Democrat
House, 11th ⁽³⁾ Legislature
8/6/1866 - 2/7/1870
House, 7th ⁽⁵⁾ Legislature
11/2/1857 - 11/7/1859
House, 6th Legislature
11/5/1855 - 11/2/1857

(1) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(2) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Roster of 11th Legislature, House of Representatives, "Texas Legislative Proceedings," 8/11/1866, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(4) Reeves died 9/5/1882. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(5) Democrat. Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 9/8/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(6) Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. G.R. Reeves, State Preservation Board
Photograph. George R. Reeves, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
Photograph. G.R. Reeves, Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Photograph. G.R. Reeves, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Biographical sketch. American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910 1989.
Biographical information in son George E. Reeves' sketch, p. 712. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families 1889.
REEVES, GEORGE ROBERTSON (1826-1882). Handbook of Texas Online .
Confederate States Army, Colonel, William C. Young's 11th Texas Cavalry. Confederate Camp Reeves in Grayson County named for Reeves. Handbook of Texas Online .
26th Speaker of the House of Representatives: George R. Reeves. Photo and biographical sketch. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
George Robertson Reeves. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
Biographical sketch, pp. 25, 115. Texas in the War, 1861-1865 1965.
Biographical sketch, p. 265. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.
George Reeves, "The Resurrection of Bass Reeves," by Christian Wallace, July 2021. "At the outset of the Civil War, William’s third son, George, enlisted with the Confederate forces as a colonel in the Eleventh Texas Cavalry . . . After the war, George Reeves returned to Texas, where he served as a state legislator; he was Speaker of the House . . . " Texas Monthly .
Biographical sketch, Colonel George R. Reeves, pp. 340-341. Includes reprint of an article in the Dallas Herald on his election as speaker in January 1881. The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.