Hudson William Nelson
Full Name: Hudson William Nelson
Birth date: 1813
Death date: December 30, 1878
Birth date: 1813
Death date: December 30, 1878
Terms of Service
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House,
13th Legislature
1/14/1873 - 1/13/1874
Democrat
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Senate,
11th
(1)
(2)
(3)
Legislature
8/6/1866 - 2/7/1870
(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.
Biographical Notes and Resources
Resolutions and Journal entries
- Member roster, 11th Legislature, Regular Session: H.W. Nelson, Bright Star, Hopkins County, nativity Maryland, farmer, age 52 in 1866 (born circa 1814). Senate Journal .
Photographs
- Photograph. H.W. Nelson, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
- Photograph. H.W. Nelson, 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
- Photograph. H.W. Nelson, State Preservation Board
Other Resources
- Census of 1860 - H.W. Nelson, Shelby County, Alabama, age 46, born circa 1814 in Maryland, farmer.
Census of 1870 - Hudson W. Nelson, Hopkins County, age 56, born circa 1814 in Maryland, farmer. FamilySearch . 1860 1870 - NELSON, HUDSON WILLIAM (1813-1878). Handbook of Texas Online .
- Confederate States Army. Handbook of Texas Online .
- Mentioned in history of Senatorial redistricting for Lamar County, "Backward Glances (from the scrapbooks of the late A.W. Neville, Editor of the Paris News, 1936-1956, 3/14/1951)," republished 8/26/1976, p. 6. Paris News .
- Hudson W. Nelson family story, "Reilly Springs," The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Texas), 7/6/2001, p. 4, crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society. "Col. Hudson W. Nelson is buried in the Reilly Springs Cemetery and was a native of Maryland." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
- 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.