Terms of Service

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

(1) In 1855, Know-Nothing "contenders for the Texas House of Representatives, Nathan Smith, A.D. Burress, and William A. Tarleton, were all victorious by wide margins over their Democratic opponents," p. 168. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880 1983.
(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," Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 414, 416-417. Southwestern Historical Quarterly .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

• Nathan Smith, pp. 162, 164, 168, 173. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880 1983.
• SMITH, NATHANIEL ALEXANDER (1789-ca. 1864). Born 11/25/1789 in Amherst, Virginia. Served in Alabama House of Representatives in the late 1820s and again from 1840-1844. "Leading member of the Texas Know Nothings . . . died around 1864 in Woodlawn, Harrison County, Texas." Handbook of Texas Online .
• Relatives: Nathan A. Smith - father; Gideon Smith - son. "From Slave Days to the Present: A Fannin County Story," 2/28/2009. North Texas e-News .
• Included on list of leaders of the Texas Constitutional Union Party in 1860. The party was formed in January of 1860. "The Constitutional Union Party in Texas," Vol. 82, No. 3, p. 238, 256-262. Southwestern Historical Quarterly .

Committee Information

• 6th R.S. - 1855
• Constitutional Amendments, Select  
• County and County Boundaries  
• Privileges and Elections  
• State Affairs