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Richard V. Cook

R.V. Cook
Full Name: Richard V. Cook
Birth date: April 27, 1831
Death date: August 20, 1877

Terms of Service

  • Senate, 11th (1) (2) (3) (4) Legislature
    8/7/1866 - 2/7/1870
     
(1) 11th Legislature - Oath of office for Senators elected from Districts No. 22, 29, 30, and 15, 8/7/1866, p. 6. Senate Journal .
(2) Constitution of 1866, Article III, §§ 29, 30, retained the apportionment of 1860 for Senatorial districts. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
(3) Entire Senate went up for reelection - Constitution of 1869, Article III, § 39. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
(4) Democrat in 1876 - Obituary in Colorado Citizen, 8/30/1877, p. 3, "The Democratic State Convention, held in Galveston, January, 1876, appointed him Elector for this Congressional District . . ." Fayette County, TXGenWeb Project .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

  • Member roster, 11th Legislature, Regular Session: R.V. Cook, Columbus, Colorado County, nativity Tennessee, lawyer, age 34 in 1866 (born circa 1832). Senate Journal .

Photographs

  • Photograph. R.V. Cook, By the Austin Photograph Co., Prints and Photographs Collection, [identifier number: di_03923, di_03924], The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

Other Resources

  • Eliza F. Cook, wife of R.V. Cook, burial in Moore Cemetery, Fayette County. Find a Grave .
  • "Colonel R.V. Cook, of Columbus, formerly State Senator from Colorado county," speaker at emancipation celebration in Columbus, Texas, 6/22/1867. "Pencilings of a Journey into Texas," 6/30/1867, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
  • Biographical sketch, p. 63. Lawyer from Tennessee. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.
  • Richard V. Cook, Esq., birth date 4/27/1831, death date 8/20/1877, husband of Eliza F. Moore, burial in Moore Cemetery, Fayette County.
    Obituaries, Richard V. Cook, Colorado Citizen, Thursday, 8/23/1877, p. 3 (died at 9 o'clock Monday night, August 20, interred in Moore Cemetery); and Colorado Citizen, 8/30/1877, p. 3. Fayette County, TXGenWeb Project . Moore Cemetery Obituaries

Committee Information

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