Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Eggleston Townes

Full Name: Eggleston Dick Townes
Birth date: June 5, 1817
Death date: August 30, 1864

Terms of Service

House, 9th Legislature
11/4/1861 - 11/2/1863
Senate, 8th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ ⁽⁷⁾ Legislature
11/7/1859 - 3/13/1861

(1) "When he [Hamilton] returned to Texas in the spring of 1861 he won a special election to the state Senate." Handbook of Texas Online .
(2) Nathan G. Shelley, in special election 3/25/1861, sworn in 9th Legislature, succeeded to the unexpired term of Eggleston D. Townes, resigned 3/13/1861. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(3) "Our late Representative in Congress, Hon. A.J. Hamilton, was elected State Senator for the Austin district, last Monday [8/25/1861] . . . Judge Towns [sic], resigned." Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 4/2/1861, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(4) "On the 25th, an election was to be held for a successor, in the State Senate, to M.E.D. Townes, Senator representing the District of Bastrop, Travis, and Burnet counties." Galveston Weekly News, 4/2/1861, p. 1, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(5) Listed on the "Democratic Ticket" for Senator in The Campaign Intelligencer (Austin City, Texas), 7/16/1859, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(6) 8th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators elected since the last adjournment, oath of office administered, 11/7/1859, p. 2. Senate Journal .
(7) 8th Legislature - One of 15 newcomers to the Senate, 8th Regular Session, p. 302. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. Eggleston Townes, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Other Resources

Brief biographical information included in sketches of son John Charles Townes (referred to as "Judge Dick Townes") and grandsons Edgar Eggleston Townes and John C. Townes, Jr., Volume III, pp. 1297-1298; and sketch of son John Charles Townes, Volume IV, pp. 1606-1607. "He [Eggleston D. Townes] moved to Texas in 1856, settling in Travis County . . . his death occurred August 30, 1864." A History of Texas and Texans 1914.
Birth date 6/5/1817, death date 8/31/1864. Application of grandson John Charles Townes, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Ancestry.com .
Biographical sketch, Eggleston Dick Townes, born 1817 and died 1864; mentioned in sketches of son John Charles Townes and father John Leigh Townes. History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, 1921, by Thomas McAdory Owen, Mrs. Marie (Bankhead) Owen, Volume 4, pp. 1678-1679. Google Books .
"Flournoy and the Minnikin [Judge] Townes . . .", State Gazette (Austin, Texas), 10/6/1860, p. 1, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Eggleston D. Townes included in biographical sketch of son-in-law James A. Simons, who married Miss Mattie C. Townes in 1881. Lewis Publishing Company. History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties, 1893, pp. 332-333. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .