Texas Legislators: Past & Present

James H. Armstrong

Full Name: James H. Armstrong
Birth date: 1811
Death date: December 21, 1879

Terms of Service

House, 13th Legislature
1/14/1873 - 1/13/1874
Democrat
Senate, 6th ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁷⁾ Legislature
11/5/1855 - 11/2/1857
Senate, 5th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ Legislature
11/7/1853 - 11/5/1855
Senate, 4th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ Legislature
11/3/1851 - 11/7/1853
House, 2nd Legislature
12/13/1847 - 11/5/1849

(1) Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Act passed Feb. 2, 1853, 4th Legislature, 1st C.S., ch. 4, Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(2) Roster of members elect of the 5th Legislature, state elections, 1853. Texas State Gazette (Austin, Texas), 8/20/1853, p. 3, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(3) 5th Legislature - Roll of Senators elected since the last adjournment presented their credentials, and being qualified, took their seats, 11/7/1853, p. 2. Senate Journal .
(4) 4th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators elect presented their credentials, qualified, and took their seats, 11/3/1851, pp. 3-4. Senate Journal .
(5) 6th Legislature, Regular Session - Not present at the organization of the Senate. First mentioned in appointments to Senate committees, 11/6/1855, p. 6. Senate Journal .
(6) 5th Legislature - "In part due to the redistricting and the increase in the number of members, the returning senators found themselves a minority of six: James H. Armstrong, Joseph H. Burks, Rufus Doane, Hardin Hart, William T. Scott, and M.D.K. Taylor," pp. 241, 243. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.
(7) 6th Legislature - Listed in the "19 members of the Senate [who] retained their seats from the 5th Legislature," p. 258. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

5th Legislature - Roll of Members, James Armstrong, age 42, native state Kentucky, emigrated from Indiana in 1834, lawyer, postoffice Georgetown, Williamson County. House Journal .

Photographs

Photograph. James H. Armstrong, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
Photograph. James H. Armstrong, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Mentioned in biographical sketch of William P. May, Volume IV, pp. 1919-1920. Armstrong, grandfather of William P. May, was a member of the 4th and 9th Congresses in addition to serving in the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 13th legislatures. A History of Texas and Texans 1916.
Biographical sketch, pp. 44-45. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 1942.
James Armstrong (1811-1879), burial in Magnolia Cemetery, Beaumont, Jefferson County. Find a Grave .
James Armstrong, Chapter 5, Jefferson County, pp. 145-146, 155; election to state legislature in 1872, p. 157. Grass-Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-1880 1997.
ARMSTRONG, JAMES (ca. 1811-1879), moved from Jasper to Beaumont ca. 1841, "elected to the House of the Second Legislature from Jefferson County . . . moved in 1848 to Williamson County . . . returned to Beaumont about 1868." Handbook of Texas Online .
Includes separate entries for James Armstrong, a member of the 2nd and 13th Legislatures and James H. Armstrong, a member of the 4th and 9th Congresses as well as the 4th - 6th Legislatures. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
James H. Armstrong, 5th and 6th Legislature, Senate. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1868. Included in "List of Delegates to the Reconstruction Convention, As Announced in Special order No. 213, Dated Headquarters Fifth Military District, New Orleans, LA., April 13th, 1868." Journal of the Reconstruction Convention, Which Met at Austin, Texas, June 1, A.D., 1868 (1870), pp 533-534. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1845. Journals of the Convention, assembled at the city of Austin on the Fourth of July, 1845, for the purpose of framing a constitution for the State of Texas, pp. 377-378. Austin: Miner & Cruger, printers to the Convention, 1845. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.