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Theophilus G. Anderson

G.T. Anderson
Full Name: Theophilus G. Anderson
Birth date: 1834
Death date: June 12, 1890

Terms of Service

  • House, 17th (1) (2) (3) Legislature
    1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
    Republican
(1) Republican, floater for the 22nd district, 11/4/1880, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(2) Republican, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Republican. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.

Biographical Notes and Resources

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Other Resources

  • Theophilus G. Anderson, born 1834 in Shelbyville, Bradford County, Tennessee, death date 6/12/1890 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. Parents Kenneth Lewis Anderson and Patience Burditt. Anderson Family Tree. Ancestry.com .
  • Census of 1850 - Theophilus Anderson, San Augustine County, age 16, born circa 1834 in Tennessee, in household of Henry W. Sublett.
    Census of 1860 - T. Anderson, Austin, Travis County, age 25, born circa 1835 in Tennessee, lawyer.
    Census of 1870 - T.G. Anderson, San Antonio, Bexar County, age 33, born circa 1837 in Tennessee, lawyer, wife Bell.
    Census of 1880 - F.G. Anderson, San Antonio, Bexar, age 45, born circa 1835 in Tennessee, lawyer, wife Belle.
    FamilySearch . 1880 1860
    • 1870 1850
  • "Unionist Theophilus G. Anderson of San Antonio, Malcolm's brother, who won the 1866 race for the district attorney position." Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors: James Hughes Callahan and the Day Family in the Guadalupe River Basin, by Thomas O. McDonald, 2021, p. 435. Google Books .
  • Biographical sketch of father Kenneth Lewis Anderson, "lawyer and vice president of the Texas republic . . . Two sons, Theophiles and Malcolm became prosecutors in San Antonio, while a grandson, William, became a state district judge in San Antonio. In 1837 the family moved to San Augustine, Texas . . . " Handbook of Texas Online .
  • T.G. Anderson, postoffice San Antonio, Bexar County, lawyer, nativity Tennessee, Republican, age 46 (born circa 1835). Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.
  • Death notice, "State News," Brenham Weekly Banner, 6/19/1890, p. 2. "T.G. Anderson, an old lawyer of Southwest Texas, and at one time recorder and city attorney of San Antonio." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
  • T.G. Anderson elected district attorney, Bexar County, The Southern Intelligencer, 7/5/1866, p. 3, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.
    T.G. Anderson elected San Antonio recorder, "San Antonio Election—The People's Ticket Elected," Dallas Daily Herald, 1/16/1875, p. 1.
    T.G. Anderson, republican, elected floater representative from Bexar County, Dallas Daily Herald, 11/4/1880, p. 1; 11/5/1880, p. 1; and 11/16/1880, p. 1. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) . July 5, 1866 January 16, 1875
    • November 4, 1880 November 5, 1880 November 16, 1880

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