Texas Legislators: Past & Present

William Beck Ochiltree

Full Name: William Beck Ochiltree
Birth date: October 18, 1811
Death date: December 27, 1867

Terms of Service

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

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. William Ochiltree, Texas Jurists Collection

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, William Beck Ochiltree, pp. 137-138. A History of Rusk County, Texas 1961.
Biographical sketch, pp. 81-84. Bench and Bar of Texas 1885.
Biographical sketch, pp. 145-146. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 1942.
OCHILTREE, WILLIAM BECK (1811-1867). Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch and portrait, William Beck Ochiltree, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas, 1842-1845. Justices of Texas, 1836-1986 (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2004.
Ochiltree was the Whig candidate for governor in 1853. "The Constitutional Union Party in Texas," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 82, Number 3, January 1979, p. 235, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Included on list of "Texas Whigs Named in Newspapers and Identified From the Census of 1850," in "The Whig Party of Texas in the Elections of 1848 and 1852," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 73, Number 1, pp. 30-33, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Biographical sketch, pp. 55-56. Texans Who Wore the Gray 1907.
Confederate States Army, Colonel, 18th Texas Infantry. William Beck Ochiltree. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1845. Journals of the Convention, assembled at the city of Austin on the Fourth of July, 1845, for the purpose of framing a constitution for the State of Texas, pp. 377-378. Austin: Miner & Cruger, printers to the Convention, 1845. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
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, pp. 21, 108, Plate No. 62. Texas in the War, 1861-1865 1965.