Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Charles G. Keenan

Full Name: Charles G. Keenan
Birth date: February 28, 1813
Death date: June 15, 1870

Terms of Service

Senate, 5th ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ Legislature
11/7/1853 - 11/5/1855
House, 3rd ⁽⁶⁾ Legislature
11/5/1849 - 11/3/1851

Speaker
House, 2nd ⁽⁵⁾ Legislature
12/13/1847 - 11/5/1849
House, 1st ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ Legislature
2/16/1846 - 12/13/1847

(1) HUNTSVILLE, TX. Originally in Montgomery County, then designated the seat of Walker County when the county was organized in 1846. Handbook of Texas Online .
(2) Democrat. Table of members of the 1st Legislature, The Texas Democrat (Austin, Texas), 5/20/1846, p. 3, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(3) Democrat - Listed as delegate to Democratic State Convention in Austin, 1/9/1854. Tri-Weekly State Times (Austin, Texas), 1/17/1854, p. 1, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(4) Roster of members elect of the 5th Legislature, state elections, 1853. Texas State Gazette (Austin, Texas), 8/20/1853, p. 3, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(5) Roster of members of the 2nd Legislature, The Texas Democrat (Austin, Texas), 12/15/1847, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(6) Roster of members elect of the 3rd Legislature, Matthewson, R.C., Texas State Gazette (Austin, Texas), 9/29/1849, p. 6, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

5th Legislature - Roll of Members, Charles G. Keenan, age 40, native state Tennessee, emigrated from Tennessee, physician, postoffice Huntsville, Walker County. House Journal .

Photographs

Photograph. Dr. Charles G. Keenan, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006

Other Resources

Dr. Charles G. Keenan, birth date 2/28/1813, death date 6/15/1870, burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Huntsville, Walker County. Includes color portrait and biographical sketch in Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical Register of Physicians Who Served the Confederacy in a Medical Capacity. Find a Grave .
Confederate States Army, Acting Assistant Surgeon, Confederate Hospital for Camp of Instruction, Austin, Texas; Acting Assistant Surgeon and Major Surgeon, Conscript Hospital, Austin, Texas. Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical Register of Physicians Who Served the Confederacy in a Medical Capacity. Find a Grave .
KEENAN, CHARLES G. (1813-1870). Handbook of Texas Online .
8th Speaker of the House of Representatives: Charles G. Keenan. Portrait and biographical sketch. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
United States Army, surgeon, Second Seminole War; United States Army, Mexican War. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
Biographical sketch, p. 243. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.