Terms of Service

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

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

• William Baxter Pendleton "W.B.P." Gaines, burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis County. Includes military records and burial notice from Weekly Democratic Statesman, 5/28/1891. No grave marker photo. Find a Grave .
• GAINES, WILLIAM BAXTER PENDLETON (1808-1891). Handbook of Texas Online .
• Texas Revolution, Texas Army. United States Army, Mexican War. Confederate States Army, elected Colonel of 2nd Regiment of 16th State Militia Brigade, 8/31/1861. Handbook of Texas Online .
• Death notice, "Colonel W.B.P. Gaines," Evening Tribune (Galveston), 5/28/1891, p. 1, crediting Rosenberg Library. "In 1855-56 he represented Brazoria county in the Legislature." Death date 5/19/1891. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
• Portrait and biographical sketch, Wm. Baxter Pendleton Gaines, pp. 417-420. Born 9/17/1808 in Abbeville, South Carolina. Types of Successful Men of Texas 1890.

Committee Information

• 6th R.S. - 1855
• Constitutional Amendments, Select  
• Internal Improvements  
• Land Titles West of Nueces River, Select  
• Military Affairs  
• Public Lands  
• Roads, Bridges, and Ferries (Chair) 
• Slaves and Slavery