Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Ambrose Dudley Kent

Full Name: Ambrose Dudley Kent
Birth date: March 31, 1838
Death date: April 19, 1907

(1) Not present at organization of the House on 8/6/1866. A.D. Kent sworn 8/7/1866, p. 4. House Journal .

Ambrose D. Kent listed in Officers of the 21st Regiment, Company B (formerly Company E, Spaight's Battalion), 2nd Lieutenant, Jefferson County during the Civil War, and Muster Roll of Company "E," Spaight's Battalion, 2nd Lieutenant. A History of Jefferson County, Texas .
Confederate States Army, Company E, Spaight's Battalion, Infantry 2nd Lt., per widow's application. Ambrose Dudley Kent, death date 4/19/1907 in Harris County, widow Mrs. Louise M. Kent, marriage date 12/29/1875 in Jefferson County, death date 11/12/1924 in the home of daughter Celestine, Harris County. Pension File No. 26248, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com .
Census of 1880 - Ambrose D. Kent, Beaumont, Jefferson County, age 42, born circa 1838 in Kentucky, checking clk at sawmill, wife Matilda L., son Bede D.
Census of 1900 - Ambrose D. Kent, Houston, Harris County, age 62, born March 1838 in Kentucky, lawyer, wife Lanauza M., sons Barclay D. and Ambrose D., daughter Celestine E.
Ambrose Dadley Kent, marriage to Druzilla McFaddin 1/11/1866 in Jefferson County. A.D. Kent, marriage to Lou M. Marble 12/26/1874 in Jefferson County. FamilySearch . 1900 1880

Confederate States Army, 2nd Lieutenant, Company B, 21st Texas Infantry. Military grave marker, Ambrose Dudley Kent, birth date 3/31/1838, death date 4/19/1907, burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Harris County. Find a Grave .
Election as state representative from the district including Jefferson, Liberty, Chambers, and Orange counties, served in Confederate army, Chapter 5, Jefferson County, p. 148. Grass-Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-1880 1997.
KENT, AMBROSE DUDLEY (1836-1907). Birth date 3/31/1836, death date 4/19/1907. Handbook of Texas Online .
2nd Lieutenant, coastal defense unit in Jefferson County at Sabine Pass; Confederate States Army, 3rd Lieutenant, Company E, 11th Battalion of Texas Volunteers. Handbook of Texas Online .
"Teachers often supplemented their income with other work; many later entered into law, politics, or journalism. In 1866 Drusilla McFaddin, daughter of rancher William McFaddin, married her tutor, Ambrose Dudley Kent. He later became a state representative." "Beaumont Education Had Humble Beginnings," by Judith Linsley, September 2015. Center for Regional Heritage Research, Stephen F. Austin State University .