Terms of Service

• House, 16th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
  1/14/1879 - 1/11/1881
  Democrat
  

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

• Confederate States Army, Company F, 4th Texas Infantry. Joseph Benjamin Polley, birth date 10/27/1840 in Brazoria County, lawyer, death date 2/2/1918 in Wilson County, widow Mrs. Mattie L. Polley, marriage date December 1866 in Guadalupe County. Pension File Nos. 28855 (Joseph Benjamin Polley) and 34924 (J.B. Polley), Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com .
• Confederate States Army, Q.M. Sergeant, Company F, 4th Texas Infantry. Military grave marker, Joseph B. Polley. Joseph Benjamin Polley, birth date 10/27/1840, death date 2/2/1918, biographical sketch, portrait, burial in Floresville City Cemetery, Floresville, Wilson County. Find a Grave .
• POLLEY, JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1840-1918). Handbook of Texas Online .
• J.B. Polley's memoir of Confederate Army service. Hood's Texas Brigade: Its Marches, Its Battles, Its Achievements 1910.
• Biographical sketch, J.B. Polley, p. 219. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas 1890.
• Biographical sketch, J.B. Polley, pp. 85-86. Memorial and Genealogical Record of Southwest Texas: Containing Biographical Histories and Genealogical Records of Many Leading Men and Prominent Families 1894.
• Obituary, "Reaper Beckons Gallant Veteran: General Polley of Floresville Was One of Most Widely Known Confederates," San Antonio Express, 2/10/1918, p. 10-A, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Gives full name Joseph Bailey Polley. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
• Biographical sketch, Joseph B. Polley, p. 222. Texans Who Wore the Gray 1907.
• Confederate States Army, Regional Quartermaster, Company F, 4th Texas Infantry, Hood's Texas Brigade. Joseph Benjamin Polley. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
• Biographical sketch, p. 272. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.

Committee Information

• 16th R.S. - 1879
• Contingent Expenses  
• Indian Affairs  
• Judiciary No. 1  
• Penal Code, Select  
• Penitentiary  
• Public Debt