Terms of Service

• House, 17th ^{(1) (2) (3)} Legislature
  1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
  Greenback
  
• House, 16th Legislature
  1/14/1879 - 1/11/1881
  Greenback
  

(1) "Linton, greenbacker, for local representative, is elected by near 100 majority," p. 1, 11/6/1880. Galveston Daily News .
(2) Greenbacker, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Greenbacker. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

• Photograph. W.N. Linton, Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Other Resources

• Obituary and death notices, Houston Daily Post, Dallas Morning News, and Brownsville Herald. Death date 5/21/1898. Relatives: William Nelson Linton - father-in-law; Robert Byron Rentfro - son-in-law. Donated Material .
• Biographical sketch, William Nelson Linton, p. 260. Born 11/29/1830 in Pickens, Alabama. Elected to the 16th Legislature as a Greenbacker. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.

Committee Information

• 17th R.S. - 1881
• Military Affairs (Chair) 
• Privileges and Elections  
• Revenue and Taxation  
• 16th R.S. - 1879
• Commerce and Manufactures  
• Private Land Claims  
• State Asylums