Terms of Service

• House, 12th ^{(1) (2)} Legislature
  2/16/1870 - 1/14/1873
   
  

(1) 12th Legislature, Provisional Session - Tinsley and Simmons qualified and took the oath of office on 2/16/1870, p. 35. House Journal .
(2) Party affiliation, Conservative. Texas Almanac for . . . and Emigrant's Guide to Texas .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Photographs

• Photograph. W.T. Simmons, Austin History Center

Other Resources

• "Members of the Legislature came in quite freely yesterday. We noticed the arrival of Hon. F.G. Latimer, Senator Parsons, . . . Dr. Simmons . . ." "Arrival at Austin," 4/26/1870, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
• W.T. Simmons of Beaumont, Chapter 5, Jefferson County, election to Texas House of Representatives on 12/3/1869, p. 154; mentioned, p. 155. Grass-Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-1880 1997.

Committee Information

• 12th Adjourned - 1871
• Commerce and Manufactures  
• Public Buildings and Grounds  
• 12th R.S. - 1871
• Commerce and Manufactures  
• House Employees, Regulate Pay of  
• Penitentiary  
• Public Buildings and Grounds  
• 12th 1st C.S. - 1870
• Division of the State, Select  
• Education  
• House Officer and Employee Compensation, Select  
• Penitentiary