Terms of Service

• House, 6th Legislature
  11/5/1855 - 11/2/1857
   
  

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

• Census of 1860 - Jack Davis, Cherokee County, age 34, born circa 1826 in Alabama, lawyer farmer, in household with Martha B. Davis. FamilySearch . 1860
• Biographical sketch, Capt. Jack Davis, p. 388. Davis lived in Tyler, where he was elected to the legislature, in 1856. "Later, he became a resident of Cherokee county, and was again elected to the legislature." Historical Sketch of Parker County and Weatherford, Texas 1877.
• Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1866. Journal of the Texas State Convention: Assembled at Austin, Feb. 7, 1866. Adjourned April 2, 1866, pp. 3-5. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.

Committee Information

• 6th R.S. - 1855
• Civil and Criminal Codes, Governor's Message, Select  
• Federal Relations  
• Land Titles West of Nueces River, Select  
• Military Affairs  
• Public Debt