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Ezekiel Alfred Blanch

E.A. Blanch
Full Name: Ezekiel Alfred Blanch
Birth date: July 6, 1814
Death date: November 5, 1877

Terms of Service

  • House, 9th (2) Legislature
    8/4/1862 - 11/2/1863
     
  • Senate, 8th (1) (3) Legislature
    1/14/1860 - 11/4/1861
     
(1) Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Act passed Feb. 6, 1860, 8th Legislature, ch. 45, Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(2) E.A. Blanch, in special election 8/4/1862, succeeded Sterling B. Hendricks. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(3) E.A. Blanch, sworn 1/14/1860, succeeded Louis T. Wigfall, resignation announced 12/7/1859. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.

Biographical Notes and Resources

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Other Resources

  • Mentioned as Atlanta and Pacific railroad surveyor, pp. 88, 92; special election to State Senate on 12/31/1859. "Democrats owed their victory primarily to the splitting of the vote between Marshall and Morphis . . .," p. 171; candidate for State Senate in 1866, p. 258. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880 1983.
  • Census of 1870 - E.A. Blanch, Marshall, Harrison Texas, age 56, born circa 1814 in Virginia, engineer. FamilySearch . 1870
  • Maj. E.A. Blanch, birth date 7/6/1814, death date 11/5/1877, burial in Marshall Cemetery, Marshall, Harrison County. Includes obituary from Marshall Messenger, 11/10/1877, p. 3. No grave marker photo. Find a Grave .
  • BLANCH, EZEKIEL ALFRED (1814–1877). Born 7/6/1814 in Brunswick, Virginia; died 11/5/1877 in Marshall, Texas. Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Obituary, Maj. E.A. Blanch, "Earth to Earth," 11/10/1877, p. 3. Death date 11/5/1877. Marshall Messenger .
  • Discussion of 8th Legislature interregnum, Secession Convention had adopted a loyalty oath . . . "Senator Blanch came forward on March 19 [1861] with an amended oath of loyalty, and the senators all took it, despite the initial opposition of some such as Paschal and Throckmorton," p. 320. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.

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