Terms of Service

• House, 8th Legislature
  11/7/1859 - 11/4/1861
   
  
• House, 7th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
  11/2/1857 - 11/7/1859
   
  
• House, 6th Legislature
  11/5/1855 - 11/2/1857
   
  

(1) 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) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

• Photograph. Jacob Waelder, Constitutional Convention of 1875 Composite Photo. From the collection of the Texas State Library and Archives Commisison.
• Photograph. Jacob Waelder, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Other Resources

• Biographical sketch, Jacob Waelder pp. 487-499. Waelder always a "thorough Democrat." Bench and Bar of Texas 1885.
• WAELDER, JACOB (1820-1887). Handbook of Texas Online .
• Portrait. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature 1860.
• Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1875. Included in Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Texas: Begun and Held at the City of Austin Texas. Constitutional Convention (1875). Galveston : Printed for the Convention at the "News" Office, 1875, pp. 3-4. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
• Biographical sketch and portrait, Jacob Waelder, pp. 128-129. The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.

Committee Information

• 8th R.S. - 1859
• Apportionment (Chair) 
• Claims and Accounts  
• Judiciary  
• State Affairs  
• 7th R.S. - 1857
• Depredations Upon Citizens of Mexican Origin Transporting Merchandise from Lavaca to San Antonio (Co-Chair) 
• Education  
• Indian Affairs (Chair) 
• Internal Improvements  
• Judicial Districts  
• Judiciary  
• Printing  
• Rules, Select  
• State Affairs  
• 6th R.S. - 1855
• Engrossed Bills  
• Indian Affairs  
• Judicial Districts, Select  
• Judiciary