Full Name: Edward Thomas "Tom" Broughton, Jr.
Birth date: April 13, 1834
Death date: February 11, 1874
Terms of Service
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Senate,
13th
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(2)
(5)
& 12th
(3)
(4)
(6)
Legislatures
2/8/1870 - 1/13/1874
Unaffiliated
(1)
Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Act passed Apr. 24, 1873 [presented to Governor May 1, 1873 and became law without his signature], 13th Legislature, R.S., ch. 35,
Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(2)
Democrat.
Directory of the Members of the Thirteenth Legislature of the State of Texas 1873.
(3)
12th Legislature, 1st C.S. - Drawing for Terms of Office, 5/2/1870, pp. 51-52. Drew 6-year term.
Senate Journal .
(4)
12th Legislature - party affiliation, Conservative.
Texas Almanac for . . . and Emigrant's Guide to Texas .
(5)
Fifteen members of the 13th Legislature were conservative Democrats. These fifteen were joined by E. Thomas Broughton and Captain Samuel Evans, "both returning conservative independents," p. 145.
The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.
(6)
"Like Captain Samuel Evans of neighboring District Twenty-One, he [Broughton] was unwilling to ally himself with any of the political coteries. He ran for the Senate against both a Democrat and a Republican and was elected," p. 91.
The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.