Terms of Service

• House, 8th ^{(1) (2)} Legislature
  11/7/1859 - 11/4/1861
   
  

(1) District No. 45, Bell and McLennan Counties, Allison Nelson. House Journal .
(2) Comprising District 45 were Bell, McLennan, and Bosque Counties. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

• Photograph. Allison Nelson, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Other Resources

• Confederate States Army, Brigadier General, Co F & S, 10th Texas Infantry. Military grave marker, Allison Nelson. Find a Grave .
• NELSON, ALLISON (1822-1862). Handbook of Texas Online .
• Mexican War. Brigadier General, Cuban War for Independence. Confederate States Army, Brigadier General. Handbook of Texas Online .
• Biographical sketch and portrait. Birth date 3/17/1823. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature 1860.
• Delegate to Secession Convention of Texas, 1861. Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas 1861. Edited from the original in the department of state by Ernest William Winkler, State Librarian. Texas Library and Historical Commission, the State Library. Austin: Austin Print. Co., 1912, pp. 20-22. Originally published serially in newspapers. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
• Confederate States Army, Colonel, 10th Texas Infantry Regiment; Brigadier General. Biographical sketch and portrait, pp. 14, 20, 89, Plate No. 23. Texas in the War, 1861-1865 1965.

Committee Information

• 8th R.S. - 1859
• Apportionment  
• Indian Affairs (Chair) 
• Indian Difficulties on Frontier  
• Joint Indian Affairs  
• Judicial Districts