Terms of Service

• House, 8th Legislature
  11/7/1859 - 11/4/1861
   
  
• House, 5th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
  11/7/1853 - 11/5/1855
   
  
• House, 4th Legislature
  11/3/1851 - 11/7/1853
   
  
• House, 3rd ⁽²⁾ Legislature
  8/16/1850 - 11/3/1851
   
  

(1) 5th Legislature - City/county, pp. 457-461. House Journal .
(2) 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

Photographs

• Photograph. Joshua Speights, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Other Resources

• SPEIGHTS, JOSHUA HOPKINS (1819-1889). Handbook of Texas Online .
• Portrait. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature 1860.

Committee Information

• 8th R.S. - 1859
• Claims and Accounts  
• Private Land Claims  
• Probate Laws  
• 5th R.S. - 1853
• Engrossed Bills (Chair) 
• 4th R.S. - 1851
• Apportionment  
• Judiciary  
• 3rd R.S. - 1849
• Claims and Accounts  
• Engrossed Bills  
• Judiciary