Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Joshua Hopkins Speights

Full Name: Joshua Hopkins Speights
Birth date: December 7, 1819
Death date: August 25, 1889

Terms of Service

House, 8th Legislature
11/7/1859 - 11/4/1861
House, 5th Legislature
11/7/1853 - 11/5/1855
House, 4th Legislature
11/3/1851 - 11/7/1853
House, 3rd ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
8/16/1850 - 11/3/1851

(1) Joshua H. Speights, sworn 8/16/1850, succeeded Edgar A. Whittlesey, reported removed from state, 7/14/1850. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

5th Legislature - Roll of Members, J.H. Speights, age 32, native state Georgia, emigrated from Louisiana in 1843, farmer, postoffice Milam, Sabine County. House Journal .

Photographs

Photograph. Joshua Speights, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Other Resources

Joshua Hopkins Speights, birth date 12/7/1819, death date 8/25/1889, burial in Speights Cemetery, Sabine County. Find a Grave .
SPEIGHTS, JOSHUA HOPKINS (1819-1889). Handbook of Texas Online .
Joshua Hopkins Speights. Includes articles in the Sabine County Reporter and portrait of Speights, Joshua Hopkins, Texas State Representative. Strong McLemore Genealogy 2006.
Portrait. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature 1860.