Terms of Service

• House, 8th Legislature
  11/7/1859 - 11/4/1861
   
  

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

• Photograph. John W. Davis, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Other Resources

• Census of 1860 - John W. Davis, Hays County, age 39, born circa 1821 in Kentucky, lawyer and farmer.
  Census of 1870 - John Davis, New Braunfels, Comal County, age 49, born circa 1821 in Kentucky, lawyer.
  Census of 1900 - John W. Davis, Blanco County, age 80, born September 1820 in Kentucky. FamilySearch . 1900 1860
1870
• John Wilson Davis, father of John Walker Davis, birth date 11/16/1858 in Hays County, death date 6/13/1926 in Llano County. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
• J.W. Davis, birth date 9/2/1820, death date 6/15/1906, burial in Llano City Cemetery, Llano, Llano County. Find a Grave .
• Biographical sketch and portrait. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature 1860.

Committee Information

• 8th R.S. - 1859
• Convention to Frame a New State Constitution (Co-Chair) 
• Federal Relations  
• Judicial Districts  
• Land Office  
• Public Buildings  
• Reduction of Expenditures of the State Government