Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Samuel Augustus Maverick

Full Name: Samuel Augustus Maverick, Sr.
Birth date: July 23, 1803
Death date: September 2, 1870

Terms of Service

House, 9th Legislature
11/4/1861 - 11/2/1863
House, 8th Legislature
11/7/1859 - 11/4/1861
Senate, 7th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ & 6th ⁽²⁾ Legislatures
11/5/1855 - 11/7/1859

Senate President Pro Tempore, elected in the absence of the President and President Pro Tem 2/11/1858, Regular Session.
House, 5th Legislature
11/7/1853 - 11/5/1855
House, 4th Legislature
11/3/1851 - 11/7/1853

(1) Listed in "Senators holding over: Democrats." Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 9/8/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(2) 6th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators elected since the last adjournment presented their credentials, and being qualified, took their seats, 11/5/1855, p. 2. Senate Journal .
(3) 7th Legislature - Roll of Senators (holdover Senator), 11/2/1857, pp. 1, 4. Senate Journal .
(4) 7th Legislature - Listed in "large cadre of returning senators," p. 276. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

Portrait, 9th Legislature, Regular Session. House Journal .
5th Legislature - Roll of Members, Samuel A. Maverick, age 51, native state South Carolina, emigrated from Alabama in 1835, lawyer, postoffice San Antonio, Bexar County. House Journal .

Photographs

Photograph. Samuel Augustus Maverick, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Other Resources

Samuel Augustus Maverick, birth date 7/23/1803, death date 9/2/1870, burial in City Cemetery No. 1, San Antonio, Bexar County. BillionGraves .
Biographical sketch, p. 135. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 1942.
MAVERICK, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS (1803-1870). Handbook of Texas Online .
MAVERICK COUNTY named for Samuel A. Maverick. Handbook of Texas Online .
Mentioned in Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain 1965.
"Who You Callin' a Maverick?", 10/5/2008. New York Times .
Mentioned as candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1857 (Francis Lubbock won election). State Gazette (Austin, Texas), 2/28/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Obituary, "Champion of Underdogs Was S.A. Icon," 1/29/2003. Relatives: Samuel Maverick - great-grandfather, Maury Maverick, Jr. - great-grandson. San Antonio Express-News .
Mentioned in "Through the Years - San Saba Representatives in Legislative History," 4/1/1948, p. 9. San Saba News .
Biographical sketch and portrait. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature 1860.
Samuel Augustus Maverick, Sr. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
Biographical sketch and portrait, pp. 259-260. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.