Terms of Service

• House, 8th Legislature
  11/7/1859 - 11/4/1861
   
  
• House, 7th ^{(1) (2) (3)} Legislature
  11/2/1857 - 11/7/1859
   
  

(1) Election of L.T. Wigfall for State Senator and Eli T. Craig, William F. Baldwin, and lawyer Pendleton Murrah, for House of Representatives in election of August, 1857 - "the state legislative races were decided in favor of the Democrats . . .," p. 169. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880 1983.
(2) Democrat. Roster of 7th Legislature, "Texas Legislature Complete for 1857-8," 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) Members of the Seventh Legislature, Biographical Notes - Members, April 1937 issue. Southern Historical Research Magazine 1937.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

• Photograph. Eli Craig, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Other Resources

• Profile of election judge Craig's precinct south of Marshall, Craig's Mill, pp. 191-192. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880 1983.
• Mentioned in discussion of Harrison County religious life and denominations, pp. 102-103. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880 1983.
• CRAIG, ELI TAYLOR (1812-1867). Handbook of Texas Online .
• Biographical sketch and portrait. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature 1860.

Committee Information

• 8th R.S. - 1859
• Court of Claims  
• Education  
• Private Land Claims  
• Roads, Bridges and Ferries (Chair) 
• Rules, Select  
• 7th R.S. - 1857
• Education  
• Penitentiary  
• Privileges and Elections  
• Roads, Bridges and Ferries