Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Edward Thomas Broughton, Jr.

Full Name: Edward Thomas "Tom" Broughton, Jr.
Birth date: April 13, 1834
Death date: February 11, 1874

Terms of Service

Senate, 13th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽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.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. E.T. Broughton, State Preservation Board
Photograph. E.T. Broughton, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs

Other Resources

Portrait, biographical sketch, and letters of Edward Thomas Broughton to Mary Elizabeth Douglas Broughton (1861-1864). Battle of Raymond 1998.
Biographical sketch, "Colonel Edward Thomas Broughton," by Mary Lee Barnes. Texas State Genealogical Society. Stirpes, Volume 30, Number 4, December 1990, pp. 151-156, crediting Texas State Genealogical Society. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Confederate States Army, Captain, Company C, 7th Texas Infantry, later Lieutenant Colonel. Biographical sketch, E. Thomas Broughton, p. 42. Born in 1834. Texans Who Wore the Gray 1907.
Historical marker, Capt. Edward Thomas Broughton and the Johnson Guards, Prairieville, Kaufman County. Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission) .
Biographical sketch, Hon. E.T. Broughton, pp. 330-331. The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.
Biography of Edward Thomas Broughton, Jr., compiled by K K Hunt, submitted by Kathey Keller Hunt, portrait, death date 2/11/1874. Kaufman County, TXGenWeb Project .
Biographical sketch, obituary, funeral notice, and poetry, Edward Thomas Broughton, Jr. Research information submitted by Mary Lee Barnes. Grayson County, TXGenWeb Project .