Texas Legislators: Past & Present

James Webb Throckmorton

Full Name: James Webb Throckmorton
Birth date: February 1, 1825
Death date: April 21, 1894

Terms of Service

Senate, 10th ⁽³⁾ Legislature
11/2/1863 - 8/6/1866
Senate, 8th ⁽⁵⁾ & 7th ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ Legislatures
11/2/1857 - 11/4/1861
House, 6th Legislature
11/5/1855 - 11/2/1857
House, 5th Legislature
11/7/1853 - 11/5/1855
House, 4th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
11/3/1851 - 11/7/1853

(1) Throckmorton, resworn 1/10/1853, succeeded himself after resigning 9/15/1852. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(2) Listed in "New Senators elected: Democrats." 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) 10th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll call of Senators elect, oath of office administered, 11/2/1863, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(4) 7th Legislature - Roll of Senators elected since the last adjournment called by Districts, oath of office administered, 11/2/1857, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(5) 8th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators (holdover senators), 11/7/1859, p. 4. Senate Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

5th Legislature - Roll of Members, J. Throckmorton, age 28, native state Tennessee, emigrated from Arkansas in 1841, physician, postoffice McKinney, Collin County. House Journal .

Photographs

Photograph. James Webb Throckmorton, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, Volume II, p. 324. A Comprehensive History of Texas, 1685 to 1897 .
Biographical sketch, J.W. Throckmorton, Volume I, pp. 83-84, mentioned in "The History of Fort Worth," p. 192 ("Dr. J.W. Throckmorton of Collin county, afterward governor, was Fort Worth's leading friend in the house."). A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of North and West Texas 1906.
Photo and service as Governor, p. 45. Austin Lawyers: A Legacy of Leadership and Service 2005.
Biographical sketch, pp. 417-421. Bench and Bar of Texas 1885.
THROCKMORTON, James Webb (1825-1894). Representative, TX. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress .
Biographical sketch, pp. 831-833. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families 1889.
Mentioned in "'Blessed with Peace!' War's Bitter Aftermath," pp. 102-136. Brush Men and Vigilantes: Civil War Dissent in Texas 2000.
Biographical sketch, James W. Throckmorton, pp. 49-51. Governors Who Have Been, and Other Public Men of Texas 1921.
THROCKMORTON, JAMES WEBB (1825-1894). Handbook of Texas Online .
Private in Captain Robert H. Taylor's company, Mexican War. Surgeon's assistant in Major Michael H. Chevallie's Texas Rangers. Company of Mounted Riflemen, Collin County, May 1861. Confederate States Army, 6th Texas Cavalry. Brigadier General of the state's first frontier district, December 1864. Handbook of Texas Online .
Governor of Texas 1866-1867. Legislative Reference Library, Governors of Texas, 1846-present .
Biographical sketch, J.W. Throckmorton, pp. 44-45. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Biographical sketch, pp. 169-186. Ten More Texans in Gray 1980.
Biographical sketch, p. 91. Texans Who Wore the Gray 1907.
Confederate States Army, 6th Texas Cavalry, Captain. Texas State Troops, Brigadier General. James Webb Throckmorton. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
Biography in LRL collection, 976.4 H839T 2008. Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor: James Webb Throckmorton, 1st ed.. 2008.
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.
Delegate to Secession Convention of Texas, 1861. Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas 1861. Edited from the original in the department of state by Ernest William Winkler, State Librarian. Texas Library and Historical Commission, the State Library. Austin: Austin Print. Co., 1912, pp. 20-22. Originally published serially in newspapers. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
Biographical sketch and portrait, pp. 31, 58-60, 155-156, Plate No. 65. Texas in the War, 1861-1865 1965.
Biographical sketch, Governor James W. Throckmorton, pp. 450-452. The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.