Terms of Service

• House, 8th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
  11/7/1859 - 2/9/1861
   
  

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

• Photograph. Edward Dougherty, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Other Resources

• Edward Dougherty, birth date 6/9/1819 in County Cavan, Ireland, death date 5/25/1877, burial in Zacatal Ranch Cemetery, Relampago, Hidalgo County, with wife Marcella Garcia. Find a Grave .
• DOUGHERTY, EDWARD (1819-1877?). Handbook of Texas Online .
• Description of relationship between John McAllen, Alexander Leo, Jr., and Edward Dougherty. Relatives: Alexander J. Leo, Jr. - son-in-law, Edward Dougherty - father-in-law, pp. 356-359. I Would Rather Sleep in Texas: a History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the People of the Santa Anita Land Grant 2003.
• Biographical sketch and portrait. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature 1860.

Committee Information

• 8th R.S. - 1859
• Apportionment  
• Cameron and Hidalgo Counties, Causes of Condition of Affairs in  
• Cameron and Hidalgo Counties, Reward for Arrest of Certain Persons  
• Indian Affairs  
• Indian Difficulties on Frontier  
• Joint Indian Affairs  
• Judicial Districts  
• Judiciary  
• Military Affairs  
• Revenue Laws  
• Stock and Stock Raising (Chair)