Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Henry Lawrence Kinney

Full Name: Henry Lawrence Kinney
Birth date: June 3, 1814
Death date: March 3, 1862

Terms of Service

House, 8th ⁽⁴⁾ Legislature
11/7/1859 - 2/9/1861
Senate, 4th ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁸⁾ ⁽¹⁰⁾ Legislature
11/15/1851 - 11/7/1853
Senate, 3rd ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ Legislature
11/5/1849 - 11/3/1851
Senate, 2nd ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁷⁾ ⁽¹³⁾ & 1st ⁽⁹⁾ ⁽¹¹⁾ ⁽¹²⁾ Legislatures
Elected but never sworn

(1) Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Act approved Mar. 1848, 2nd Legislature, ch. 162, Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(2) Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Act approved Jan. 16, 1850, 3rd Legislature, ch. 44. Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(3) 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.
(4) Alfred Hobby, sworn 3/19/1861, succeeded Henry L. Kinney, resigned 2/9/1861. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(5) Edward Fitzgerald, sworn 2/5/1848, and resigned 3/20/1848, succeeded Henry L. Kinney, resigned before 12/18/1847. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(6) 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) .
(7) Kinney elected to 2nd Legislature, but never sworn. Not present at organization of the Senate 12/13/1847. No record of Kinney taking the oath of office in 2nd Legislature. Kinney appointed to Senate committees, 12/16/1847, p. 19. Senate Journal .
(8) 4th Legislature, Regular Session - Oath of office, 11/15/1851, p. 71. Senate Journal .
(9) 1st Legislature - Roll of Senators, oath of office administered, 2/16/1846, p. 4. Senate Journal .
(10) 4th Legislature, Regular Session - Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections report on contested election of L.M. Rogers and Henry L. Kinney, 11/17/1851, p. 76, Senate Journal .
(11) 1st Legislature - Drawing for Terms of Office and Classification of Senators, 3/3/1846, p. 60. Drew "second class" (4-year term). Senate Journal .
(12) Description of drawing of terms for Senators, first-class two-year terms and second-class four-year terms, 3/3/1846, p. 180. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.
(13) Kinney was "elected to the Senate of the 2nd Legislature, but before taking his seat resigned in order to see what might be gleaned from the Mexican War, already in progress," pp. 167-168. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. Henry Lawrence Kinney, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, pp. 119-120. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 1942.
KINNEY, HENRY LAWRENCE (1814-1862). Helped found Corpus Christi. Handbook of Texas Online .
Mentioned in NUECESTOWN, TEXAS. Handbook of Texas Online .
KINNEY COUNTY named for Henry Lawrence Kinney. Handbook of Texas Online .
Mentioned in Ralph A. Wooster, "Membership in the Early Texas Legislatures, 1850-1860," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 69, Number 2. October 1965, pp. 163-173, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Biographical sketch and portrait. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature 1860.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1845. Journals of the Convention, assembled at the city of Austin on the Fourth of July, 1845, for the purpose of framing a constitution for the State of Texas, pp. 377-378. Austin: Miner & Cruger, printers to the Convention, 1845. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
Biographical sketch, p. 167. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.