Terms of Service
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House,
15th
(2)
(3)
Legislature
4/18/1876 - 5/13/1876
Republican
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House,
13th
(1)
(4)
(5)
Legislature
1/14/1873 - 1/13/1874
Republican
(1)
Republican.
Directory of the Members of the Thirteenth Legislature of the State of Texas 1873.
(2)
Committee on Privileges and Elections report on contested election, 5/13/1876, pp. 148-149, concluding that A.W. Wilder did not receive a majority of all the "legal votes cast" and that H.R. Von Bieberstein is entitled to the seat.
House Journal .
(3)
H.R. Von Bieberstein, in election contest 5/13/1876, sworn the same day, unseated Allen W. Wilder.
Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(4)
"A. Wilder was elected but never seated," p. 61. (Thirteenth House Journal clearly shows Allen Wilder sworn and voting in the 13th.)
Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants: A History of the Negro in Texas Politics from Reconstruction to Disfranchisement 1935.
Journal of the Thirteenth Legislature
(5)
A.W. Wilder listed in Republican State Convention of 1873, Committee on Platform and Resolutions, pp. 154-157.
Platforms of Political Parties in Texas 1916.