Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Louis Cardis

Full Name: Louis Cardis
Birth date: 1825
Death date: October 10, 1877

Terms of Service

House, 15th Legislature
4/18/1876 - 10/10/1877
Democrat
House, 14th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ Legislature
1/13/1874 - 4/18/1876
Democrat

(1) Democrat. "From Brownsville, Special to the News," 10/22/1873. "The Democratic District convention of the thirtieth district, met at Laredo, on the 15th inst. and nominated Judge Wm. H. Russell, of Cameron for senator; Col. Santos Benavides, of Webb, Louis Cardis, of El Paso, and P.F. Murphy, of Nueces, for representatives." Galveston Daily News .
(2) 30th District, Louis Cardis, P.F. Murphy, and Santos Benavides, list of members elect in typescript journal. Cardis and Murphy sworn 1/13/1874, p. 3; Jeremiah Galvan of Cameron sworn 1/14/1874, typescript journal, p. 7. House Journal . Typescript Journal
January 13, 1874

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. Louis Cardis, Constitutional Convention of 1875 Composite Photo. From the collection of the Texas State Library and Archives Commisison.
Photograph. Louis Cardis, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Louis Cardis, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Louis Cordis, El Paso, El Paso County, manufacturing/mill business during the year ending 6/1/1870. U.S., Selected Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880. Ancestry.com .
Listed in "Men who have represented Grimes County in the House of Representatives/State Senate, 1846-1931," pp. 205-209. Includes Date, Legislatures, District, and Source of Data. Early History of Grimes County 1930.
Census of 1870 - Louis Cordis, El Paso, El Paso County, age 41, born circa 1829 in Italy, merchant. FamilySearch .
CARDIS, LOUIS (1825-1877). Handbook of Texas Online .
"Captain in Giuseppe Garibaldi's army [in Italy] before immigrating to the United States in 1854." Handbook of Texas Online .
Account of the death of Louis/Lewis Cardis, "The Cardis-Howard Feud—The Mob at San Elezario, 1877," pp. 142-153. Mills, William W. Forty years at El Paso, 1858-1898; recollections of war, politics, adventure, events, narratives, sketches, etc., 1901, Chicago. Death date 10/10/1877. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Account of the death of Louis Cardis from The Messilla Valley Independent of the 13th, "Killing of Cardis by Judge Howard," The Dallas Daily Herald, 10/31/1877, p. 3. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Biographical sketch, pp. 142-143. Born 1825 in Piedmont, Italy. Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878 1876.