Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Matthew Alexander Gaston

Full Name: Matthew Alexander Gaston
Birth date: November 1, 1832
Death date: January 9, 1883

Terms of Service

House, 15th Legislature
4/18/1876 - 1/14/1879
Democrat
House, 12th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ Legislature
2/8/1870 - 1/14/1873

(1) 12th Legislature, 1st C.S. - Resolutions relating to R.H.C. Shelton and M.A. Gaston election contest, 6/21/1870, p. 412. Election contest resolved in Gaston's favor, 6/22/1870, p. 418. House Journal . June 21, 1870
June 22, 1870
(2) 12th Legislature, Provisional Session - Qualified and took the oath of office on 2/8/1870. House Journal .
(3) Party affiliation, Democrat. Texas Almanac for . . . and Emigrant's Guide to Texas .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. M.A. Gaston, Austin History Center
Photograph. M.A. Gaston, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

GASTON, MATTHEW ALEXANDER (1832-1883). Handbook of Texas Online .
Confederate States Army, Captain, Company A, 18th Texas Infantry Regiment. Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch, pp. 88-90. Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878 1876.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1868. Included in "List of Delegates to the Reconstruction Convention, As Announced in Special order No. 213, Dated Headquarters Fifth Military District, New Orleans, LA., April 13th, 1868." Journal of the Reconstruction Convention, Which Met at Austin, Texas, June 1, A.D., 1868 (1870), pp 533-534. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
Gaston, Matthew Alexander. Texas State Cemetery .