Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Henry Latimer

Full Name: Henry Russell Latimer
Birth date: May 3, 1817
Death date: September 3, 1887

Terms of Service

Senate, 13th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ & 12th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ Legislatures
2/8/1870 - 1/13/1874
Democrat

(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) 12th Legislature, 1st C.S. - Drawing for Terms of Office, 5/2/1870, pp. 51-52. Drew 6-year term. Senate Journal .
(3) Party affiliation, Democrat. Texas Almanac for . . . and Emigrant's Guide to Texas .
(4) 13th Legislature - Included in list of 15 Senate members that were conservative Democrats, p. 145. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. Henry Latimer, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
Photograph. H.R. Latimer, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, p. 121. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 1942.
LATIMER, ALBERT HAMILTON (1800?-1877). "In 1834 the Latimers moved to a place northeast of the site of present Clarksville, where they and others founded the town of La Grange (later called Madras)." Signer of Texas Declaration of Independence. Handbook of Texas Online .
LATIMER, HENRY RUSSELL (1817-1887). Relatives: Henry Russell Latimer and Albert Hamilton Latimer - brothers. Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch of the Latimer family, History of Clarksville and Old Red River County, pp. 107-109 . HeritageQuest Online .
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1845. Journals of the Convention, assembled at the city of Austin on the Fourth of July, 1845, for the purpose of framing a constitution for the State of Texas, pp. 377-378. Austin: Miner & Cruger, printers to the Convention, 1845. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.