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Pleasant Kittrell

Full Name: Pleasant Williams Kittrell
Birth date: April 13, 1805
Death date: September 29, 1867

Terms of Service

  • House, 7th (2) (3) Legislature
    11/2/1857 - 11/7/1859
     
  • House, 6th (1) Legislature
    11/5/1855 - 11/2/1857
     
(1) Included "[a]mong 1855 legislators that this writer has positively identified as Know Nothings." The party was active in Texas at the state level between 1855 and 1857. "An Analysis of the Texas Know Nothings," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 3, January 1967, pp. 414, 416-417, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(2) Democrat. 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.

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