Hamilton Ledbetter
Full Name: Hamilton Ledbetter
Birth date: April 14, 1808
Death date: March 26, 1888
Birth date: April 14, 1808
Death date: March 26, 1888
Terms of Service
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Senate,
14th
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
Legislature
1/13/1874 - 4/18/1876
Unaffiliated
(2) Round Top, Fayette County, Independent, p. 3. Directory of the Members and Officers of the Fourteenth Legislature of the State of Texas . . . 1874.
(3) Republican. "News' telegrams, from Austin: organization of both houses . . . " Wednesday, 1/14/1874, p. 1, description of opening day of 14th Legislature, Regular Session: "Hon. H. Ledbetter was the only Republican who responded at roll call." Galveston Daily News .
(4) 14th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll call of Senators elect, oath of office administered, 1/13/1874, p. 1. Senate Journal .
Biographical Notes and Resources
Photographs
- Photograph. H. Ledbetter, State Preservation Board
Other Resources
- H. Ledbetter (1808-1888), burial in Old La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette County, same cemetery as wife J.A. Peacock. Find a Grave .
- Biographical sketches, Thomas A. Ledbetter, pp. 527-528, and W.H. Ledbetter, pp. 530-531, include information on their father Hamilton Ledbetter. Relatives: Hamilton Ledbetter - father, W.H. Ledbetter, son. Memorial and Genealogical Record of Southwest Texas: Containing Biographical Histories and Genealogical Records of Many Leading Men and Prominent Families 1894.
- Account of Capt. W.H. Ledbetter, Democratic nominee for Senator from Bastrop and Fayette counties, being challenged by his father, Hamilton Ledbetter, Esq., nominated by "the radicals," election date 12/2/1873, election results for Senator, 26th District, Bastrop County: H. Ledbetter - 1155, W. Ledbetter - 1063; Fayette County: W. Ledbetter - 1506, H. Ledbetter - 1709. Bastrop Advertiser, 11/15/1873, col. 2, 11/29/1873, and 12/20/1873. Crediting Bastrop Public Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) . November 15, 1873 November 29, 1873 December 20, 1873 November 8, 1873
- Obituary, "Death of Mr. Ledbetter," Austin Weekly Statesman, 3/29/1888, p. 9. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
- Hamilton Ledbetter, born 4/14/1808 in North Carolina, parents Drury and Rebecca Brooks Ledbetter, wife Jane Amanda (Peacock) Ledbetter. The Hamilton Ledbetter House, Round Top, Texas. Texas Historical Commission. [Historic Marker Application: Hamilton Ledbetter House], 1979, crediting Texas Historical Commission. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
- 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.
- Historical marker, Hamilton Ledbetter House, Fayette County. State Senator, 1872-74. Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission) .
- "Capt. W.H. Ledbetter, Democratic candidate for State Senator, is running against his father Hamilton Ledbetter, People's Convention candidate for same. Hamilton was also nominated as a candidate for same by the Republican Party." Abstracts from Bastrop Advertiser, 11/8/1873, Bastrop County. USGenWeb Project 1996.