Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Isaiah Addison Paschal

Full Name: Isaiah Addison Paschal
Birth date: 1808
Death date: February 21, 1868

Terms of Service

Senate, 8th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ Legislature
11/7/1859 - 3/29/1861
Senate, 7th ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁷⁾ Legislature
11/2/1857 - 11/7/1859
Senate, 5th ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁸⁾ Legislature
11/7/1853 - 11/5/1855

(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) [In late 1860 and early 1861] legislators Micajah Lewis Armstrong, John L. Haynes, and Robert H. Taylor mailed circulars to their constituencies defending their unpopular Unionist positions. They joined other Unionist legislators and convention delegates on February 6 in issuing an address entreating Texans to reject secession." "Origins of Early Texas Republican Party Leadership," Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 447. Journal of Southern History .
(3) Paschal resigned 3/29/1861. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(4) Listed in "New Senators elected: 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) .
(5) Roster of members elect of the 5th Legislature, state elections, 1853. Texas State Gazette (Austin, Texas), 8/20/1853, p. 3, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(6) Included in "Table II, Constitutional Unionists (Identified from newspapers) with Biographical Data," list of leaders of the Texas Constitutional Union Party in 1860. The party was formed in January of 1860. "The Constitutional Union Party in Texas," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 82, Number 3, January 1979, pp. 238, 256-262, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Table II, Constitutional Unionists
(7) 7th Legislature - Roll of Senators elected since the last adjournment called by Districts, oath of office administered, 11/2/1857, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(8) 5th Legislature - Roll of Senators elected since the last adjournment presented their credentials, and being qualified, took their seats, 11/7/1853, p. 2. Senate Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

5th Legislature - Roll of Members, Isaiah A. Paschal, age 44, native state Georgia, emigrated from Louisiana in [1845], lawyer, postoffice San Antonio, Bexar County. House Journal .

Photographs

Photograph. Isaiah Paschal, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Other Resources

Isaiah Addison Paschal included in biographical sketch of his son, Judge Thomas Moore Paschal, Volume V, p. 2659. Isaiah A. Paschal born in Auravia, Georgia, in 1807, died in San Antonio in 1869, served in the Texas Senate from San Antonio. A History of Texas and Texans 1914.
PASCHAL, ISAIAH ADDISON (1808-1868). Born 1808 in Lexington, Georgia; died 2/21/1868 in San Antonio. Handbook of Texas Online .
Death notice, Hon. I.A. Paschal of San Antonio, The Texas Countryman (Hempstead, Texas), 3/11/1868, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1866. Journal of the Texas State Convention: Assembled at Austin, Feb. 7, 1866. Adjourned April 2, 1866, pp. 3-5. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.