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Hardin Richard Runnels

Hardin Richard Runnels
Full Name: Hardin Richard Runnels
Birth date: August 30, 1820
Death date: December 25, 1873

Terms of Service

  • House, 5th Legislature
    11/7/1853 - 11/5/1855
     
    Speaker
  • House, 4th Legislature
    11/3/1851 - 11/7/1853
     
  • House, 3rd (1) Legislature
    11/5/1849 - 11/21/1850
     
  • House, 2nd (2) Legislature
    12/13/1847 - 11/5/1849
     
(1) Runnels resigned 11/21/1850. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(2) 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) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

  • 5th Legislature - Roll of Members, Hardin R. Runnels, age 33, native state Mississippi, emigrated from Mississippi in 1842, farmer, postoffice Boston, Bowie County. House Journal .

Photographs

Other Resources

  • Biographical sketch. American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910 1989.
  • Biographical sketch of Martha (Patsy) Burch Darden Runnels, pp. 241-242. Mentions son Hardin Richard Runnels, with portrait. Daughters of the Republic of Texas Patriot Ancestor Album 1995.
  • Mentioned in Chapter IV, election of 1857, Hardin R. Runnels, p. 29. "As I remember him, he was a man of medium size, hair auburn if not bright red. He had been Speaker of the House and lived in Bowie County. He was a man of high character and fair ability." Governors Who Have Been, and Other Public Men of Texas 1921.
  • RUNNELS, HIRAM GEORGE (1796-1857). H.G. Runnels was the uncle of Texas governor Hardin R. Runnels. Volney E. Howard injured in duel with Hiram Runnels in 1840. Relatives: Hiram G. Runnels: uncle; Hardin R. Runnels and Howell Runnels: nephews. Handbook of Texas Online .
  • RUNNELS, HARDIN RICHARD (1820-1873). Relatives: Hiram G. Runnels: uncle; Hardin R. Runnels and Howell Runnels: nephews. Handbook of Texas Online .
  • RUNNELS, HOWELL WASHINGTON (1823-1895). Hardin R. Runnels and Howell Runnels: brothers. Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Governor of Texas 1857-1859. Legislative Reference Library, Governors of Texas, 1846-present .
  • Runnels, Hiram George. "His nephew, Hardin R. Runnels, was the fifth governor of Texas." Relatives: Hiram G. Runnels: uncle; Hardin R. Runnels and Howell Runnels: nephews. NCpedia .
  • Portrait and brief biographical sketch, Hardin R. Runnels, p. 37. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
  • 5th Lieutenant Governor, 10th Speaker of the House of Representatives. Hardin Richard Runnels. Portrait and biographical sketch. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
  • Hardin Richard Runnels. Governor of Texas 1857-1859; Delegate to Secession Convention. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
  • Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1866. Journal of the Texas State Convention: Assembled at Austin, Feb. 7, 1866. Adjourned April 2, 1866, pp. 3-5. 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.
  • Historical markers in Bowie County. Martha Adams Runnels, wife of Howell W., acted as first lady of Texas during the term of her brother-in-law, Hardin R. Runnels. Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission) . Howell W. Runnels Home Site of the Home of Hardin R. Runnels
  • Martha Adams Runnels
  • Runnels, Hardin Richard. Relatives: Hiram G. Runnels: uncle; Hardin R. Runnels and Howell Runnels: nephews. Texas State Cemetery .
  • Texas Governors - Early Statehood: Hardin R. Runnels. Texas State Library and Archives Commission .
  • Biographical sketch of Howell W. Runnels, Jr., Watlington Manuscript 1920. Mentions brother Hardin R. Runnels. Bowie County, TXGenWeb Project .
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