Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Davis Prendergast

Full Name: Davis M'Gee Prendergast
Birth date: December 26, 1816
Death date: March 2, 1910

Terms of Service

House, 13th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
1/14/1873 - 1/13/1874
Democrat
House, 10th ⁽²⁾ Legislature
11/2/1863 - 6/1/1865

(1) The town of Springfield was the first county seat of Limestone County when it was established in 1847. The town began to decline when it was bypassed by the railroad, and after the courthouse burned down in 1873, the county seat moved to Groesbeck. When the former townsite became part of Fort Parker State Park in the mid-1930s, only the cemetery remained. Handbook of Texas Online .
(2) Prendergast resigned 6/1/1865. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

Portrait, 10th Legislature, Regular Session. House Journal .

Photographs

Photograph. Davis Prendergast, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Davis Prendergast, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs

Other Resources

Biographical sketch and portrait, Judge D.M. Prendergast, pp. 364-366. Born 12/26/1816 in Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tennessee. Member of the Secession Convention in 1861 and the 10th and 13th Legislatures. A Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas 1893.
PRENDERGAST, DAVIS M'GEE (1816-1910). Relatives: Davis M'Gee Prendergast, father; Albert C. Prendergast, son. Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch and portrait, D.M. Prendergast, pp. 256-257. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas 1890.
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.