Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Charles Clark Coppedge

Full Name: Charles Clark Coppedge
Birth date: February 2, 1830
Death date: June 11, 1898

(1) 11th Legislature - All 33 Senate districts listed in roll call presenting credentials, oath of office administered, 8/6/1866, pp. 2, 4-5. 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.

Member roster, 11th Legislature, Regular Session: C.C. Coppedge, Marshall, Harrison County, nativity Tennessee, farmer, age 36 in 1866 (born circa 1830). Senate Journal .

Photograph. C.C. Coppedge, 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

Biographical sketch, p. 97. Rev. C.C. Coppedge of Murry League (later known as Ore City after 1910), represented Upshur and Harrison counties in the Legislature, burial in Ore City Cemetery. A History of Upshur County, Texas 1966.
Candidate for State Senate in 1866, p. 258. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880 1983.
Charles Clark Coppedge, family and grave marker photos, biographical sketch. Foreman/Walker Family Tree. Ancestry.com .
Confederate States Army, Jr. 2nd Lieutenant, Company F, 19th Texas Infantry. Military grave marker, Charles C. Coppedge, birth date 2/2/1830, death date 6/11/1898, burial in Ore City Cemetery, Ore City, Upshur County. Find a Grave .
C.C. Coppedge, 2nd Lieut. in 19th Infantry, Company F. Col. Edward Clark organized 14th Infantry. Texans in the Civil War .
Biographical sketch: served two terms [sic] in the Legislature, one from Harrison County and one from Upshur County, buried at Murrah League near Ore City. Became a Methodist preacher in 1880, father of 21 children, 5 of whom became Methodist ministers. Served in Edward Clark's Company, Camp H, the 14th Regiment in the Confederate Army, elected general quartermaster. Twixt the Forks of Cypress 1930.