Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Jesse Parsons

Full Name: Jesse H. Parsons
Birth date: October 18, 1821
Death date: February 22, 1871

Terms of Service

Senate, 10th ⁽⁶⁾ & 9th ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ Legislatures
11/4/1861 - 8/6/1866
Senate, 8th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁷⁾ Legislature
11/7/1859 - 4/9/1861
House, 6th Legislature
11/5/1855 - 11/2/1857

(1) Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Act passed Feb. 6, 1860, 8th Legislature, ch. 45, Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(2) Parsons resigned after Adjourned Session, no successor. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(3) 9th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators, oath of office administered, 11/4/1861, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(4) 9th Legislature, Regular Session - Classification of Senators (drawing for terms of office) - drew "the long term" (four years), 11/12/1861, p. 42. Senate Journal .
(5) 8th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators elected since the last adjournment, oath of office administered, 11/7/1859, p. 2. Senate Journal .
(6) 10th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll call by district (holdover Senators), 11/2/1863, pp. 1-3. Senate Journal .
(7) 8th Legislature - One of 15 newcomers to the Senate, 8th Regular Session, p. 302. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

Member roster, 9th Legislature, Regular Session: name, district, resident county, post office, state of nativity, occupation, and age. Senate Journal .

Photographs

Photograph. Jesse Parsons, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Other Resources

PARSONS, JESSE H. (1821-1871). Handbook of Texas Online .
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.