Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Alexander Louis Kessler

Full Name: Alexander Louis Kessler
Birth date: December 5, 1837
Death date: November 26, 1897

A.L. Kessler, birth date 12/5/1937, death date 11/26/1897, burial in Comal Cemetery, New Braunfels, Comal County. Find a Grave .
KESSLER, ALEXANDER LOUIS (1837-1897). Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch, Alexander Louis Kessler, pp. 193-194, 197-198. Born 12/5/1837 in the Province of Nassau, on the Westerwald, Germany. Served as Mayor of New Braunfels and in the House of Representatives of the Texas Legislature in 1874-1875. Includes Kessler's letter to the editor of the New Braunfels Zeitung, 7/1/1894, outlining his position on tariffs, coinage of silver, patent laws, government ownership of railroads, and strikes and unemployed labor. Memorial and Genealogical Record of Southwest Texas: Containing Biographical Histories and Genealogical Records of Many Leading Men and Prominent Families 1894.
Biographical sketch, A.L. Kessler, pp. 503-505. " . . . member of the House of Representatives of the Texas Legislature in 1874, 1875 and 1876 . . . He was elected as a Democrat, but has since severed his connections with all parties." Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Biographical sketch, pp. 139-141. Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878 1876.