Texas Legislators: Past & Present

William Pinckney McLean

Full Name: William Pinckney McLean, Sr.
Other surnames: William Pinkney McLean
Birth date: August 9, 1836
Death date: March 13, 1925

Terms of Service

House, 12th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ Legislature
2/8/1870 - 1/14/1873
House, 9th ⁽²⁾ Legislature
11/4/1861 - 1/7/1862

(1) 12th Legislature, Provisional Session - Qualified and took the oath of office on 2/8/1870. House Journal .
(2) Jacob B. Reid, sworn 2/2/1863, succeeded William P. McLean, resigned 1/7/1862. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(3) "Judge McLean has been an active Democratic worker . . . " Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
(4) Party affiliation, Conservative. Texas Almanac for . . . and Emigrant's Guide to Texas .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

35th Legislature, Communications from Members of 9th Legislature, 2/7 and 2/8/1917, p. 496: S.J.P. McDowell (served as member of 9th Legislature, 1st session in 1861-1862, then resigned and entered Confederate military service) and W.P. McLean ("I believe Judge Lindsay, at Gainesville, and I are the only surviving members of the 9th Legislature and I well remember that we were the youngest members of that body. We both resigned at the close of the first session and went into the Confederate army . . ."). House Journal .
39th Legislature, R.S., HCR 48, 3/13/1925, p. 1584. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

Photograph. William McLean, Austin History Center
Photograph. William Pinckney McLean, Constitutional Convention of 1875 Composite Photo. From the collection of the Texas State Library and Archives Commisison.

Other Resources

McLEAN, William Pinkney (1836-1925). Representative, TX. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress .
MCLEAN, WILLIAM PINCKNEY (1836-1925). Handbook of Texas Online .
Confederate States Army, 19th Texas Infantry, Walker's Texas Division; Adjutant General. Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch, William Pinkney McLean, pp. 344-345. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas 1890.
Portrait and biographical sketch, William Pinkney McLean, Railroad Commissioner, pp. 101-102. Born 8/9/1836 in Hinds County, Mississippi. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Railroad Commissioners Past through Present, with dates of service. Railroad Commission of Texas .
Portrait and biographical sketch, pp. 117-118. Texans and Their State: A Newspaper Reference Work 1918.
Confederate States Army, Major, 19th Texas Infantry. William Pinkney McLean. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1875. Included in Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Texas: Begun and Held at the City of Austin Texas. Constitutional Convention (1875). Galveston : Printed for the Convention at the "News" Office, 1875, pp. 3-4. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
Biographical sketch, p. 157. Texas in the War, 1861-1865 1965.