Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Bacilio Benavides

Full Name: Bacilio Benavides
Other surnames: Benavidez
Birth date: April 15, 1800
Death date: 1863

BENAVIDES, BASILIO (1800-1863), "the second of five Tejanos known to have served in the Texas House of Representatives during the nineteenth century." Relatives: Basilio Benavides - uncle; Santos Benavides - nephew. Handbook of Texas Online .
Mentioned in TEJANO POLITICS. Listed among the Tejanos who served in the Texas House and Senate. Handbook of Texas Online .
Mentioned in Minority Civil Rights and the Texas Legislature 2018.
Part II, Historical Survey, "Secession and Civil War." Shared Experience: the History, Architecture and Historic Designations of the Lower Rio Grande Heritage Corridor 1994.
Biographical sketch and portrait, Don Bacilio Benavides. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature 1860.
Mentioned, pp. 12, 21-22. Vaqueros in Blue and Gray 2000.