Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Peyton Forbes Edwards

Full Name: Peyton Forbes Edwards
Birth date: September 28, 1844
Death date: April 1, 1905

Terms of Service

Senate, 16th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ & 15th ⁽³⁾ Legislatures
4/18/1876 - 10/18/1879
Democrat

(1) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(2) Edwards resigned 10/18/1879. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(3) 15th Legislature - All Senators except District 7 listed in roll call as Senators elect, oath of office administered, 4/18/1876, p. 1; Drawing of Senatorial Terms, 4/27/1876, p. 98, drew "long term" (four years). Senate Journal . April 14, 1876
April 27, 1876

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. P.F. Edwards, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, Judge Peyton Forbes Edwards, Volume I, pp. 378-380. Native of Nacogdoches, born 9/28/1844. "He was also elected to the state senate and served as state senator for four years in the fifteenth and sixteenth sessions of the general assembly of Texas . . . in April 1886, he removed to El Paso and has since been a prominent member of the El Paso bar and a leading citizen here." A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of North and West Texas 1906.
Description of the Peyton Forbes Edwards Family papers, including speeches, legal papers, newspaper clippings, and correspondence during his service in the 17th Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. Confederate Military Manuscripts: Series C: Holdings of the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin 2003.
EDWARDS, PEYTON FORBES (1844-1918). Handbook of Texas Online .
Confederate States Army, Private, 4th Texas Cavalry; later served in Company A, 17th Texas Cavalry, became brigade quartermaster. Handbook of Texas Online .
Mention in EDWARDS, HADEN HARRISON. Father: Haden Harrison Edwards, Son: Peyton Forbes Edwards. Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch, pp. 7-8. Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878 1876.
Biographical sketch, p. 239. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.