Terms of Service

• Senate, 9th ^{(1) (2) (3)} Legislature
  11/4/1861 - 2/15/1862
   
  

(1) William Quayle, sworn 2/3/1863, succeeded Alfred T. Obenchain, resigned 2/15/1862. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(2) 9th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators, oath of office administered, 11/4/1861, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(3) 9th Legislature, Regular Session - Classification of Senators (drawing for terms of office) - drew "the long term" (four years), 11/12/1861, p. 42. Senate Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

• Member roster, 9th Legislature, Regular Session: name, district, resident county, post office, state of nativity, occupation, and age. Senate Journal .

Other Resources

• OBENCHAIN, ALFRED T. (1824-1862). Murdered "by two of his own men at Hubbard Creek in Stephens County near Camp Breckenridge on August 16, 1862. He was buried in an unmarked grave on the frontier." Handbook of Texas Online .
• 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.
• Alfred T. Obenchain resigned 2/15/1862, became a lieutenant colonel in the Frontier Regiment Texas Cavalry, "murdered that same year, allegedly by his escort, two privates of the regiment," p. 7. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.

Committee Information

• 9th R.S. - 1861
• Claims and Accounts  
• General Land Office  
• Indian Affairs  
• Privileges and Elections  
• State Affairs