Terms of Service

• House, 14th Legislature
  1/13/1874 - 4/18/1876
  Democrat
  
• House, 13th Legislature
  1/14/1873 - 1/13/1874
  Democrat
  

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

• Photograph. William Sayers, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. William Sayers, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Collection.
• Photograph. William Sayers, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• William Branch Sayers, birth date 2/22/1843, death date 2/24/1898, lawyer, born in Mississippi, brother of Joseph D. Sayers, son of David Sayers. Census of 1850, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi; Census of 1870, Gonzales, Gonzales County, Texas; Craddock/Sayers/Stuhler Families family tree. Ancestry.com .
• William Branch Sayers, birth date 2/22/1843, death date 2/24/1898, burial in Gonzales Masonic Cemetery, Gonzales County. Find a Grave .
• SAYERS, WILLIAM BRANCH (1843-1898). Handbook of Texas Online .
• Biography and Portrait of Joseph D. Sayers, pp. 359-374. Relatives: Joseph Draper Sayers and William B. Sayers - brothers. Year Book for Texas, 1901 1902.

Committee Information

• 14th R.S. - 1874
• Constitutional Amendments (Chair) 
• Finance  
• Judges M. Walker and Wesley Ogden, Supreme Court  
• Judiciary No. 1  
• Military Affairs  
• Rules  
• State Affairs (Chair) 
• 13th R.S. - 1873
• Apportionment  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Engrossed Bills  
• Federal Relations  
• Impeachment Managers, John G. Scott, Judge of the Tenth Judicial District  
• Judge T.C. Barden, 16th Judicial Court  
• Judiciary No. 1  
• Late Honorable Louis Frankee, Assassination (Co-Chair) 
• State Penitentiary, Select