Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Leonidas Jefferson Storey

Full Name: Leonidas Jefferson Storey
Birth date: October 6, 1834
Death date: March 28, 1909

Terms of Service

Senate, 16th ⁽¹⁾ & 15th ⁽²⁾ Legislatures
4/18/1876 - 1/11/1881
Democrat
Senate President Pro Tempore, elected 4/19/1879, Regular Session; and 1st C.S.
House, 14th Legislature
1/13/1874 - 4/18/1876
Democrat
House, 13th Legislature
1/14/1873 - 1/13/1874
Democrat

(1) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(2) 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

Resolutions and Journal entries

31st Legislature, 2nd C.S., 5/10/1909, p. 375. Resolutions - Memorial .
31st Legislature, 1st C.S., 3/29/1909, pp. 103-104. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

Photograph. Leonidas Jefferson Storey, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
Photograph. L.J. Storey, State Preservation Board
Photograph. L.J. Storey, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
Photograph. L.J. Storey, State Preservation Board
Photograph. L.J. Story, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, Hon. Leonidas Jefferson Storey, pp. 795-796. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families 1889.
Biographical sketch, p. 1, 8/12/1880. Galveston Daily News .
Biographical sketch in "State Senators Elect: Personal Sketches Completed - Seventeen Lawyers, Seven Grangers, Two Doctors, One Editor and Four Colored Politicians - the Political Structure of the New Senate of Texas," 3/3/1876, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
STOREY, LEONIDAS JEFFERSON (1834-1909). Handbook of Texas Online .
Confederate States Army, Captain, Company B, 26th Texas Cavalry, Xavier B. DeBray's brigade. Handbook of Texas Online .
13th Lieutenant Governor: Leonidas Jefferson Storey. Photo and biographical sketch. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
Railroad Commissioners Past through Present, with dates of service. Railroad Commission of Texas .
Mentioned in "Through the Years - San Saba Representatives in Legislative History," 4/1/1948, p. 9. San Saba News .
Biographical sketch, pp. 57-58. Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878 1876.
Biographical sketch, p. 250. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.
Biographical sketch, L.J. Storey, Member State Railroad Commission, pp. 8-9. Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature 1897.
Biographical sketch, Hon. Leonidas Jefferson Storey, pp. 449-450. The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.
Biographical sketch, Leonidas Jefferson Storey, Member of the Railroad Commission of Texas, pp. 17-19. The Twenty-Seventh Legislature and State Administration of Texas 1901.
Biographical sketch, L.J. Storey, Member of the State Railroad Commission, pp. 397-399. Year Book for Texas, 1901 1902.