Texas Legislators: Past & Present

William Cornelius Dalrymple

Full Name: William Cornelius Dalrymple
Birth date: August 3, 1814
Death date: March 29, 1898

Terms of Service

Senate, 11th ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ Legislature
8/6/1866 - 2/7/1870
House, 7th ⁽²⁾ Legislature
11/2/1857 - 11/7/1859
House, 6th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
11/5/1855 - 11/2/1857

(1) Included "[a]mong 1855 legislators that this writer has positively identified as Know Nothings." The party was active in Texas at the state level between 1855 and 1857. "An Analysis of the Texas Know Nothings," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 3, January 1967, pp. 414, 416-417, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(2) Listed in "Representatives Elected: Opposition." Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 9/8/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(3) 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 .
(4) 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.
(5) 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.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

Member roster, 11th Legislature, Regular Session: W.C. Dalrymple, Georgetown, Williamson County, nativity North Carolina, farmer, age 52 in 1866 (born circa 1814). Senate Journal .

Photographs

Photograph. W.C. Dalrymple, 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

W.C. Dalrymple, birth date 8/3/1814, death date 3/29/1898, burial in Presbyterian Cemetery, Georgetown, Williamson County. Includes portrait; obituary in the Dallas Morning News, 4/2/1898; and historical marker photo. Find a Grave .
DALRYMPLE, WILLIAM CORNELIUS (1814-1898). Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch. Lewis Publishing Company. History of Texas, Together With a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties, 1893, pp. 698-699. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Colonel of Cavalry and Commander in Chief of the Texas militia, conferred by Governor Sam Houston, 10/10/1860. Confederate States Army, Private, Arkansas, 1862. Lewis Publishing Company. History of Texas, Together With a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties, 1893, p. 698. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Texas State Troops, Colonel. William Cornelius Dalrymple. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1866. Journal of the Texas State Convention: Assembled at Austin, Feb. 7, 1866. Adjourned April 2, 1866, pp. 3-5. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
Historical marker, William Cornelius Dalrymple, Presbyterian Cemetery, Georgetown, Williamson County. Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission) .
Portrait, W.C. Dalrymple. Williamson County Historical Commission .