Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Andrew Jackson Witt

Full Name: Andrew Jackson Witt
Birth date: August 13, 1815
Death date: February 9, 1870

Terms of Service

House, 7th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ Legislature
11/2/1857 - 11/7/1859
House, 6th Legislature
11/5/1855 - 11/2/1857
House, 5th Legislature
11/7/1853 - 11/5/1855

(1) 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) .
(2) Members of the Seventh Legislature, Biographical Notes - Members, April 1937 issue. Southern Historical Research Magazine 1937.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

5th Legislature - Roll of Members, A.J. Witt, age 38, native state Illinois, emigrated from Illinois in 1841, farmer, postoffice Dallas, Dallas County. House Journal .

Other Resources

Confederate States Army, Captain, Major, and Assistant Quartermaster, 6th Texas Cavalry, Company F, enlistment and muster date 9/1/1861 in Fannin County, Texas. Born 1815 in Illinois; died 1872 in Dallas County, Texas, burial in Oakland Cemetery, Dallas. Andrew Jackson Witt, U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865. Ancestry.com .
WITT, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1870). Birth date 8/13/1815, death date 2/9/1870. Handbook of Texas Online .
Mentioned in Brown, John Henry. History of Dallas County, Texas: from 1837 to 1887, 1887. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .