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Pendleton Murrah

Full Name: Pendleton Murrah
Birth date: November 1826
Death date: August 4, 1865

Terms of Service

  • House, 7th (1) (2) (3) (4) Legislature
    11/12/1857 - 11/7/1859
     
(1) Election of L.T. Wigfall for State Senator and Eli T. Craig, William F. Baldwin, and lawyer Pendleton Murrah, for House of Representatives in election of August, 1857 - "the state legislative races were decided in favor of the Democrats . . .," p. 169. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880 1983.
(2) Murrah and Latham took the oath of office on 11/12/1857, p. 91. House Journal .
(3) 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) .
(4) Members of the Seventh Legislature, Biographical Notes - Members, April 1937 issue. Southern Historical Research Magazine 1937.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

  • Pendleton Murrah, mentioned as successful candidate for Governor, with portrait, Volume II, p. 143: "Pendleton Murrah was a prominent lawyer in his section of the State, had been in the legislature from his county, and, before being a candidate for governor, was quartermaster or commissary in some regiment organized for the war. . ." A Comprehensive History of Texas, 1685 to 1897 .
  • Biographical sketch, governor of Texas during the defeat and break up of Confederacy in Texas, died in Mexico during July, 1865, p. 99. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880 1983.
  • The Secession Crisis, 1860-1861: Marshall's mayor appointed "three current or former Democratic state legislators" to a resolutions committee, including Pendleton Murrah, M.J. Hall, and J.M. Clough, p. 184. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880 1983.
  • Biographical sketch, pp. 45-46. Governors Who Have Been, and Other Public Men of Texas 1921.
  • MURRAH, PENDLETON (ca. 1826-1865). Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Confederate States Army, 14th Texas Infantry. "He served briefly as a quartermaster officer in the Fourteenth Texas Infantry in early 1862 but was forced by poor health to resign his commission." Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Governor of Texas 1863-1865. Legislative Reference Library, Governors of Texas, 1846-present .
  • Portrait and biographical sketch, Pendleton Murrah, pp. 41-42. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
  • Biographical sketch, pp. 34-35. Texans Who Wore the Gray 1907.
  • Biographical sketch and portrait, pp. 139, Plate No. 58. Texas in the War, 1861-1865 1965.
  • Murrah, Pendleton. Cenotaph. Birth date November 1826, death date 8/4/1865. Texas State Cemetery .
  • Pendleton Murrah, mentioned in "Governors of Texas," Volume 1, p. 204. The New Encyclopedia of Texas 1926.

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