Terms of Service

• Senate, 9th ^{(1) (2) (3)} Legislature
  11/7/1861 - 11/2/1863
   
  

(1) 9th Legislature, Regular Session - Oath of office, 11/7/1861, p. 10. Senate Journal .
(2) 9th Legislature, Regular Session - Classification of Senators (drawing for terms of office) - drew "the short term" (two years), 11/12/1861, p. 42. Senate Journal .
(3) One of eight Senators in 9th Legislature that only served one term in the Senate, p. 12. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

• H.C. Cook, El Paso, nativity Tennessee, lawyer, age 36 [born circa 1825]. Senate Journal .

Other Resources

• Census of 1860 - H.C. Cook, El Paso, El Paso County, age 28, born circa 1832 in Tennessee, lawyer.
  Census of 1880 - Henry C. Cook, Ysleta, El Paso, age 57, born circa 1823 in Tennessee, lawyer. FamilySearch . 1880 1860
• Roster of Ante-bellum residents of El Paso, pp. 18-21. Henry C. Cook, lawyer. Confederate; dead. Mills, William W., Forty Years at El Paso, 1858-1898; Recollections of War, Politics, Adventure, Events, Narratives, Sketches, etc., 1901. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
• Biographical sketch, p. 76, died 1881 in California (citing El Paso Times, 1/17/1885); mentioned as one of legal founders of El Paso, pp. 45, 166, 217. The Legal Heritage of El Paso 1963.

Committee Information

• 9th R.S. - 1861
• Confederate Relations  
• General Land Office  
• Indian Affairs  
• Militia and Military Affairs  
• Public Lands