Volney Erskine Howard
Full Name: Volney Erskine Howard
Birth date: October 22, 1809
Death date: May 14, 1889
Birth date: October 22, 1809
Death date: May 14, 1889
Terms of Service
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House,
1st
(1)
Legislature
3/16/1846 - 12/13/1847
Biographical Notes and Resources
Photographs
- Photograph. Volney E. Howard, Texas Jurists Collection
Other Resources
- Biography, pp. 385-390. Incorrectly states Mr. Howard was elected to the Senate of the state of Texas. Bench and Bar of Texas 1885.
- Biographical sketch, pp. 107-108. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 1942.
- HOWARD, Volney Erskine (1809-1889). Representative, TX. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress .
- HOWARD, VOLNEY ERSKINE (1809-1889). Handbook of Texas Online .
- 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 .
- Portrait and biographical sketch, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office 2006.
- Biographical sketch includes passages from an obituary from a "leading daily newspaper of Los Angeles." Z.T. Fulmore, "General Volney Erskine Howard," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 14, Number 2, October 1910, pp. 146-149, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
- Obituary, 5/15/1889, Los Angeles Times, p. 2. Southern California Genealogical Society and Family Research Library .
- 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
- 1st R.S. - 1846