Terms of Service

• House, 1st ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
  2/16/1846 - 12/13/1847
   
  

(1) 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) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

• Biographical sketch, Benjamin McCulloch, p. 129. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 1942.
• Mentioned in "Early History of Guadalupe County," p. 430. Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas 1900.
• MCCULLOCH, BENJAMIN (1811-1862). Relatives - Benjamin McCulloch and Henry Eustace McCulloch, brothers. Handbook of Texas Online .
• Texas Army, First Lieutenant, Texas Revolution, "At the battle of San Jacinto he commanded one of the famed Twin Sisters and won from Houston a battlefield commission as first lieutenant." Texas Rangers, First Lieutenant. Texas Mounted Volunteers, Company A, Jack Hays' 1st Regiment, Mexican War. United States Army, Major of United States volunteers. Confederate States Army, Colonel; Brigadier General, appointed 3/11/1862, the "second-ranking brigadier general in the Confederate Army and the first general-grade officer to be commissioned from the civilian community." Handbook of Texas Online .
• Portrait and biographical sketch. Lone Star Junction 1995.
• Biographical sketch, Gen. Ben McCulloch, pp. 579-580. Born 11/11/1811 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. "He was chosen as Representative of the first Texas Legislature, served faithfully in that capacity . . . " Memorial and Genealogical Record of Southwest Texas: Containing Biographical Histories and Genealogical Records of Many Leading Men and Prominent Families 1894.
• Biographical sketch, pp. 71-91. Ten More Texans in Gray 1980.
• Biographical sketch, pp. 35-36. Texans Who Wore the Gray 1907.
• Benjamin McCulloch. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
• Confederate States Army, Colonel, Texas State Troops; Brigadier General. Biographical sketch and portrait, pp. 11-12, 51, 87-88, Plate No. 20. One of the Confederate general officers from Texas killed in battle on 3/7/1862 at the Battle of Elk Horn Tavern, Pea Ridge, Arkansas. Texas in the War, 1861-1865 1965.
• McCulloch, Benjamin. Texas State Cemetery .
• Biographical sketch, General Ben McCulloch, pp. 294-300. The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.
• Book in LRL collection, 328.764 M139R 1957. The Life and Services of Gen. Ben McCulloch 1958.

Committee Information

• 1st R.S. - 1846
• Militia