Terms of Service

• Senate, 12th ^{(1) (2) (3) (4)} Legislature
  4/26/1870 - 1/14/1873
   
  

(1) Pettit, sworn 4/26/1870, did not attend Provisional Session. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(2) 12th Legislature, 1st C.S. - Drawing for Terms of Office, 5/2/1870, pp. 51-52. Drew 2-year term. Senate Journal .
(3) 12th Legislature, Provisional Session - Absent on opening day, 2/8/1870, p. 4. Senate Journal .
(4) Party affiliation, Radical. Roster of members, 12th Legislature, 1870. Texas Almanac for . . . and Emigrant's Guide to Texas .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

• Full name, Elisha Pettit. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.

Committee Information

• 12th Adjourned - 1871
• Education (Chair) 
• Immigration  
• Public Debt (Chair) 
• Retrenchment and Reform  
• State Affairs  
• 12th R.S. - 1871
• Education (Chair) 
• Immigration  
• Public Debt (Chair) 
• Retrenchment and Reform  
• State Affairs  
• 12th 1st C.S. - 1870
• Education (Chair) 
• Immigration  
• Public Debt (Chair) 
• Public School Lands  
• Retrenchment and Reform  
• State Affairs