Terms of Service

• House, 10th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
  5/16/1864 - 8/6/1866
   
  
• House, 7th ⁽²⁾ Legislature
  11/2/1857 - 11/7/1859
   
  

(1) Chance, in special election 4/26/1864, sworn 5/16/1864, succeeded Jeremiah W. Thomas. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(2) Listed in "Representatives Elected: Opposition." 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) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

• Confederate States Army, 2nd Lieutenant, Company G, 2nd Texas Infantry. Volume II, pp. 575-576. A Comprehensive History of Texas, 1685 to 1897 .
• E.J. Chance, birth date 7/7/1826, death date 10/6/1868, burial in Old City Cemetery, Caldwell, Burleson County. Find a Grave .
• Elijah James Chance, born 7/7/1826 in Tennessee, married Frances James Parker 4/18/1855 in Burleson County, and died 10/7/1868, buried in Caldwell's Old City Cemetery. "Mr. E.J. Chance was a successful lawyer and served in the Texas State Legislature in 1857." Mentioned in biographical sketches of Joseph Bell Chance and Samuel Parker, Sr. Burleson County, TXGenWeb Project . Joseph Bell Chance Samuel Parker, Sr.

Committee Information

• 7th R.S. - 1857
• Public Buildings  
• Public Lands