Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Richard Montgomery Gano

Full Name: Richard Montgomery Gano
Birth date: June 17, 1830
Death date: March 27, 1913

Terms of Service

House, 9th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
11/4/1861 - 2/2/1863

(1) James P. Alford, sworn 2/2/1863, succeeded Richard M. Gano. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

Portrait, 9th Legislature, Regular Session. House Journal .

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, General R.M. (Richard M.) Gano, pp. 315-317. Elected to Legislature from Tarrant County in 1860. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families 1889.
GANO, RICHARD MONTGOMERY (1830-1913). Handbook of Texas Online .
Confederate States Army, Colonel, 7th Kentucky Cavalry; Brigadier General. Richard Montgomery Gano. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
Confederate States Army, Colonel, 7th Kentucky Cavalry; Lieutenant Colonel, Gano's Texas Cavalry Battalion; promoted to Brigadier General, 3/17/1865. Biographical sketch, portrait, pp. 5, 32-33, 77-78, Plate No. 5. Texas in the War, 1861-1865 1965.
Biographical sketch and portrait, General R.M. Gano, pp. 176-177. "In 1860 he was elected to the legislature from Tarrant county." The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.

Committee Information

9th R.S. - 1861

Enrolled Bills

Military Affairs

Legislative Reference Library