Personnel of the Texas State Government, with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, Embracing the Executive and Staff, Heads of the Departments, United States Senators and Representatives, Members of the Twenty-first Legislature |
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Personnel of the Texas State Government, With Sketches of Distinguished ... L E (Lewis E ) Daniell No preview available - 2022 |
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Page 50 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 141 - Representatives. 113 (Third South Carolina Regiment) when a boy; removed to Texas in 1866; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1869; was District Attorney of the Thirteenth District of Texas; was Democratic Elector of the Third Congressional District of Texas in 1880; was elected to the Forty-eighth...
Page 134 - ... 1884; was chosen Democratic Elector for the State at large in 1884, was elected to the Fiftieth Congress, and was re-elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat, receiving 27,006 votes, against 4,482 votes for JW Thomas, Republican. SIXTH DISTRICT.
Page 381 - State ; a day in which the chain of unity that binds the East and the West, and the North and the South...
Page 194 - He was admitted to the bar, and commenced the practice of his profession in his native...
Page 137 - Alabama in 1835; removed to Mississippi when a child; was educated at the State University, graduating with the first honors of his class in 1855; read law; removed to Texas in 1857, and began the practice of his profession; served in the Confederate Army during the war; was elected to the Constitutional Convention of Texas in 1875; was elected District Judge in 1876, and remained upon the bench till 1885; was elected to the Fiftieth Congress, and was re-elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat,...
Page 108 - I know that the workingmen of this country are the best paid, the best fed, and the best clothed of any laborers on the face of the earth. Many of them have homes of their own. They are surrounded by all the comforts and many of the luxuries of life.
Page 228 - Also, A joint resolution requesting our Senators and Representatives in Congress to...
Page 400 - Ohio, graduating from that institution in 1872 in the classical course; was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Ohio in 1874...
Page 134 - State ; went with his father and family to Texas in the fall of 1853, and entered the private school of Dr. Frank Yoakum, and afterward that of Professor Allison ; served in the Twelfth Texas Cavalry, Confederate Army, as first lieutenant; studied law and was admitted to the bar in October, 1866; was elected to the State Legislature in 1869, and served one term ; was appointed by Governor Roberts Judge of the Twenty-eighth Judicial District in February, 1879; was elected to the same position in November,...