Terms of Service

• Senate, 4th ^{(1) (2)} Legislature
  11/3/1851 - 11/7/1853
   
  

(1) Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Act passed Feb. 2, 1853, 4th Legislature, 1st C.S., ch. 4, Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(2) 4th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators elect presented their credentials, qualified, and took their seats, 11/3/1851, pp. 3-4. Senate Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

• Biographical sketch, p. 75. States that Captain Davis attended Constitutional Convention of 1866 and died in 1877 on a farm south of Weatherford, in Parker County. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 1942.
• DAVIS, JAMES (1790-1859). Death date 2/10/1859, burial at Coldspring. Handbook of Texas Online .
• Coldspring history, biographical sketch - General James B. Davis (1790-1859) donated land for First Baptist Church; General James Davis, adjutant-general and member of Texas Congress 1843-1844, Constitutional Convention, 1845, buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery (born 7/17/1790, died 2/10/1859). Lake Livingston, Texas 2000.
• "James Davis Papers," San Jacinto Museum of History, creator sketch notes Davis died 2/10/1859 in Liberty County. Texas Archival Resources Online 2010.
• No James Davis of Liberty listed in Constitutional Convention delegates, February 7-8, 1866. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
• 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.

Committee Information

• 4th R.S. - 1851
• Apportionment  
• Finance  
• Internal Improvements  
• Land Titles West of the Nueces, Select  
• Militia (Chair) 
• Public Debt  
• State Affairs (Chair)