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Jesse Walling

Full Name: Jesse Walling
Birth date: June 17, 1794
Death date: August 11, 1867

Terms of Service

  • House, 9th (1) Legislature
    2/6/1863 - 11/2/1863
     
  • House, 7th (2) Legislature
    11/2/1857 - 11/7/1859
     
  • House, 2nd (3) Legislature
    12/13/1847 - 11/5/1849
     
(1) Jesse Walling, in special election 8/4/1862, sworn 2/6/1863, succeeded N.G. Bagley, resigned. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(2) Democrat. 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) .
(3) Roster of members of the 2nd Legislature, The Texas Democrat (Austin, Texas), 12/15/1847, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

  • Biographical sketch of Jesse Walling included in sketch of his nephew, James K. Walling, Volume II, pp. 542-544. .
  • Biographical sketch, pp. 185-186. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 1942.
  • WALLING, JESSE (1794-1867). Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Interred originally at Walling Bend Cemetery. Reinterred at Whitney Cemetery in 1950. Hill County, Texas 1998.
  • Relatives: J.B. Walling of Wichita Falls (52nd-55th Legislatures) is a descendant of Jesse Walling (2nd, 7th, and 9th Legislatures). Curtis Bishop, "Historic Names in the 54th: Descendants of many who made early Texas history carry on family traditions of service to their State as members of the 54th Legislature," Volume XVI, Number 1, June 1955, pp. 37, 38, 40. Texas Parade .

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