Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Samuel Bogart

Full Name: Samuel "Sam" Bogart
Birth date: April 2, 1797
Death date: March 11, 1861

Terms of Service

House, 8th ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ Legislature
11/7/1859 - 2/9/1861
Senate, 4th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁸⁾ Legislature
11/3/1851 - 11/7/1853
House, 3rd ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁷⁾ ⁽⁹⁾ Legislature
11/5/1849 - 11/3/1851
House, 2nd ⁽⁶⁾ Legislature
12/13/1847 - 11/5/1849

(1) Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Act passed Feb. 2, 1853, 4th Legislature, 1st C.S., ch. 4, Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(2) Senate District 3, represented Cooke, Grayson, Denton, Collin, and Dallas counties. Act approved Jan. 16, 1850, 3rd Legislature, ch. 44, Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(3) House District 6, represented Grayson, Collin, and Cooke counties. House Journal .
(4) Bogart resigned 2/9/1861. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(5) McKinney, Collin County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(6) 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) .
(7) Roster of members elect of the 3rd Legislature, Matthewson, R.C., Texas State Gazette (Austin, Texas), 9/29/1849, p. 6, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(8) 4th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators elect presented their credentials, qualified, and took their seats, 11/3/1851, pp. 3-4. Senate Journal .
(9) Collin County. Texas House of Representatives: A Pictorial Roster 1846-1992 1992.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. Samuel Bogart, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Other Resources

Biographical sketch and portrait, Major Samuel A. Bogart, p. 40. Daughters of the Republic of Texas Patriot Ancestor Album 1995.
BOGART, SAMUEL (1797-1861). Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch and portrait. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature 1860.
Delegate to Secession Convention of Texas, 1861. Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas 1861. Edited from the original in the department of state by Ernest William Winkler, State Librarian. Texas Library and Historical Commission, the State Library. Austin: Austin Print. Co., 1912, pp. 20-22. Originally published serially in newspapers. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
"Samuel Bogart, representative from old Fannin County in the heart of the colony," p. 229; Controversy over Senator Sam Bogart's bill to amend the pre-colonist law of 1850, pp. 230-234, discusses anger of constituents in Dallas County and Denton County. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.
Biographical sketch of the Hon. Sam Bogart from a speech made before the House of Representatives in Texas in 1861, submitted by Vicki Shaffer. Bogart born 4/2/1797, died 3/11/1861. Collin County, TXGenWeb Project .