Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Emile Alexander Perrenot

Full Name: Emile Alexander Perrenot
Birth date: March 20, 1845
Death date: January 22, 1893

Terms of Service

House, 17th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ Legislature
1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
Democrat
House, 15th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ Legislature
4/18/1876 - 8/2/1876
Democrat

(1) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(2) Mentioned in "The news from Austin . . . Resignations of Representative Barziza and four others accepted after critical debate . . . Hunter restored to his seat . . . Other resignations not improbable," Thursday, 8/3/1876, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(3) ROCKPORT, TX. "Rockport was incorporated as a town in 1870 and as a city in 1871, the year Aransas County was demarked from Refugio County." Handbook of Texas Online .
(4) Resignation letter and Gov. Coke's transmittal letter to Speaker, 8/2/1876, pp. 742-743. House Journal .
(5) Perrenot resigned 8/2/1876. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(6) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. A.E. Perinot, Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Photograph. E.A. Perrenot, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Census of 1880 - E.A. Perrenot, Aransas County, age 35, born circa 1845 in Florida, druggist, wife M.E. FamilySearch . 1880
Emile Alexander Perrenot, father of Ray Elizabeth Perrenot, birth date 10/22/1883 in Rockport, Texas. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
E.A. Perrenot, birth date 3/20/1845, death date 1/22/1893, burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Victoria, Victoria County. Find a Grave .
Death notice, "Hon. E.A. Perrenot," The Galveston Daily News, 1/24/1893, p. 2, crediting the Abilene Library Consortium. "He was formerly a member of the legislature from Aransas county." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Biographical sketch, pp. 126-127. "Lives in Rockport, Refugio County." Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878 1876.
Biographical sketch and portrait, E.A. Perrenot, pp. 254-256. Types of Successful Men of Texas 1890.
Confederate States Army, 15th Confederate Regiment of Volunteer Cavalry, commanding officer Colonel Harry Maury. Types of Successful Men of Texas 1890.