Texas Legislators: Past & Present

James Wilson Henderson

Full Name: James Wilson Henderson
Birth date: August 15, 1817
Death date: August 30, 1880

Terms of Service

House, 8th Legislature
11/7/1859 - 11/4/1861
House, 7th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽³⁾ Legislature
11/2/1857 - 11/7/1859
House, 2nd ⁽²⁾ Legislature
12/13/1847 - 11/5/1849

Speaker

(1) 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) .
(2) 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) .
(3) 7th Legislature - "Members of Legislature elect," The Southern Intelligencer (Austin, Texas), 8/12/1857, p. 3, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

2nd Legislature - Address to the legislature upon adjournment sine die, pp. 1136-1138. House Journal .

Photographs

Photograph. James Wilson Henderson, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
Photograph. James Wilson Henderson, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, pp. 100-101. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 1942.
James W. Henderson (1814-1880), burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston. Includes biographical sketch, color portrait. Find a Grave .
HENDERSON, JAMES WILSON (1817-1880). Born 8/15/1817 in Sumner County, Tennessee; died in Houston 8/30/1880. Served as Lt. Governor from 8/4/1851 to 11/23/1853, then Governor from 11/23/1853 to 12/21/1853. Handbook of Texas Online .
Governor of Texas 1853. Legislative Reference Library, Governors of Texas, 1846-present .
3rd Lieutenant Governor, 7th Speaker of the House of Representatives: James Wilson Henderson. Portrait and biographical sketch. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
Texas Army, Captain, Texas Revolution ("Henderson interrupted his college studies in Kentucky and raised a company of 50 recruits to assist in the Texas Revolution. The group arrived too late to participate even at San Jacinto; nevertheless, Henderson was commissioned a captain and sent back to the United States on recruiting service."); Somervell Expedition ("which retaliated in 1842 against Mexican border raids"); Confederate States Army, Captain. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
Confederate States Army, Captain under General MacGruder. James Wilson Henderson. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1866. Journal of the Texas State Convention: Assembled at Austin, Feb. 7, 1866. Adjourned April 2, 1866, pp. 3-5. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.