Terms of Service

• House, 6th ^{(1) (2)} Legislature
  11/5/1855 - 11/2/1857
   
  

(1) "Judge Cleveland was also active in the Democratic party and was a delegate to the 1854 Democratic state convention from Liberty County." Handbook of Texas Online .
(2) Included "[a]mong 1855 legislators that this writer has positively identified as Know Nothings." The party was active in Texas at the state level between 1855 and 1857. "An Analysis of the Texas Know Nothings," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 3, January 1967, pp. 414, 416-417, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Other Resources

• Mentioned in biographical sketch of Judge J. Stewart Cleveland, p. 2111. A History of Texas and Texans 1914.
• Judge Charles L. Cleveland mentioned on p. 904 of biographical sketch of law partner, Judge Asa Hoxey Willie, pp. 904-905. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families 1889.
• Discussed in Ch. XXIV, East Texas Men, p. 142, "died in the office of Criminal District Judge of Harris & Galveston Counties"; and "A Quartette of Able Lawyers," pp. 250-259. Governors Who Have Been, and Other Public Men of Texas 1921.
• CLEVELAND, CHARLES LANDER (1824-1892). Handbook of Texas Online .
• 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.
• Biographical sketch and portrait, Judge Charles Lander Cleveland, pp. 53-55. The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.

Committee Information

• 6th R.S. - 1855
• Civil and Criminal Codes, Governor's Message, Select  
• County and County Boundaries  
• Federal Relations  
• Judiciary  
• Land Titles West of Nueces River, Select  
• Private Land Claims No. 1  
• Private Land Claims No. 2 (Chair) 
• Privileges and Elections