Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Francis Menefee White

Full Name: Francis Menefee White
Birth date: August 11, 1811
Death date: March 22, 1897

Terms of Service

House, 6th Legislature
11/5/1855 - 11/2/1857
House, 5th Legislature
11/7/1853 - 11/5/1855
House, 4th Legislature
11/3/1851 - 11/7/1853
House, 1st ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
2/16/1846 - 12/13/1847

(1) TEXANA, TX. Texana was originally a community in south central Jackson County, incorporated as a municipality in 1840, and by 1884, was a virtual ghost town. Handbook of Texas Online .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

5th Legislature - Roll of Members, Francis M. White, age 42, native state Tennessee, emigrated from Alabama in 1831, farmer, postoffice Texana, Jackson County. House Journal .

Other Resources

Portrait, p. 194. A Comprehensive History of Texas, 1685 to 1897 .
Biographical sketch, p. 189. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 1942.
WHITE, FRANCIS MENEFEE (1811-1897). Handbook of Texas Online .
Texas Army, Lieutenant, participated in the siege of Bexar. Handbook of Texas Online .
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.