Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Richard L. Askew

Full Name: Richard L. Askew
Birth date: June 2, 1822
Death date: March 1, 1889

Census of 1850 - R.S. Askew, Upshur County, age 28, born circa 1822 in Georgia, farmer.
Census of 1860 - Richard Askew, Hopkins County, age 36, born circa 1824 in Georgia, farmer, in household with Isabella Askew.
Census of 1870 - Richard Askew, Hopkins County, age 47, born circa 1823 in Georgia, farmer, in household with Isabella Askew.
Census of 1880 - R.L. Askew, Hopkins County, age 56, born circa 1824 in Georgia, justice of the peace, wife Isabella Askew. FamilySearch . 1880 1860

R.L. Askew, birth date 6/2/1822, death date 3/1/1889, burial in Pickton, Hopkins County. Find a Grave .
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.