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Marcus Fulton Mott

M.F. Mott
Full Name: Marcus Fulton Mott
Birth date: June 21, 1837
Death date: November 18, 1906

Terms of Service

  • Senate, 22nd (1) (2) (3) Legislature
    1/13/1891 - 1/10/1893
    Democrat
(1) 2-year term; entire Senate went up for reelection in 1892 due to redistricting. Act approved Apr. 19, 1892, 22nd Legislature, 1st C.S., ch. 20. Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(2) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(3) 22nd Legislature - 1/13/1891, p. 1, listed as new member in roll call: "The credentials of the new members were presented, and the following senators had the oath of office administered them by the president pro tem of the senate." Senate Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

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Other Resources

  • Confederate States Army and Texas Militia. M.F. Mott, Color Sergeant, Infantry Company, Rio Grande Volunteers, Colonel John S. Ford's Regiment, Confederate States Army, enlistment date 2/18/1861 at Galveston, served 2/18/1861 to 3/13/1861. Commanding officer Captain H. Van Buren.
    M.F. Mott, 3rd Lieutenant, Galveston Artillery Company, 1st Brigade, General William T. Austin, Commanding, Texas Militia, enlistment Feb. 1861. Commanding officer Captain H. Van Buren. Ancestry.com .
  • Marcus F. Mott, birth date 6/21/1837, death date 11/18/1906, burial in Trinity Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Galveston County. Includes obituary from Weekly Town Talk, Alexandria, Louisiana, 11/24/1906; and reprint of obituary in The Jefferson Jimplecute, 11/24/1906. Find a Grave .
  • "Davidson on Mott: Attorney General Presented Resolutions to Supreme Court" (resolutions of the Galveston bar on the death of Col. Marcus F. Mott), 12/18/1906, p. 6. Galveston Daily News .
  • "Eerie Events Take Place in House That Mott Built," 8/3/1975, p. 1, 2A. Galveston Daily News .
  • Obituary and photo, "Colonel Mott Dead: Twice Elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Texas . . . ," Monday 11/19/1906, p. 10. "Died Sunday morning (11/18/1906) about 3 o'clock." Galveston Daily News .
  • "Devoirs to the Fead: Masonic Knights of High Degree Assembled to Pay Tribute to the Memory of Col. M.F. Mott . . . ", 11/20/1906, p. 4. Galveston Daily News .
  • "Funeral of Col. Mott: Under the Auspices of the Grand Lodge of Texas—Grand Commandery Escort; Gen. Stoddard's Tribute," 11/21/1906, p. 5. Galveston Daily News .
  • "A Gentleman of the Old School," 11/21/1906, p. 6. Galveston Daily News .
  • Marcus F. Mott mentioned in HARRIS, JOHN WOODS (1810-1887). Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Biographical sketch, Marcus F. Mott, Galveston, pp. 206-208. Born 6/21/1837 in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, son of Dr. A.G.W. Mott and Mrs. Eliza Mott. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
  • "During the war between the States, Mr. Mott served for a time as lieutenant of artillery, took part in a number of expeditions, (among others, that sent to the relief of Brazos Santiago), and at the battle of Galveston was an aide on the staff of General Scurry." Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
  • Marcus Fulton Mott of Galveston, "Texans Honored: With High Degrees by the Scottish Rite Council," The Houston Post, 10/20/1905, p. 3. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
  • Biographical sketch, Marcus Fulton Mott, Galveston, pp. 225-228. Born 6/21/1837 in Alexandria, Louisiana. The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.
  • "In February 1861, at the breaking out of the civil war, being then the color-sergeant of the Galveston artillery company, he volunteered with the company and took part in the Brazos Santiago expedition, organized by the state of Texas to take the Federal forts and munitions on the lower Mexican frontier from the United States troops then in possession of them. The objects of the expedition having been accomplished, the command returned to Galveston, when he was created first-lieutenant of artillery. He took part in the battle of Galveston, fought on the 1st day of January 1863, as aid to General Surry, and went with a section of artillery to Sabine Pass when the Confederate troops were being consolidated to repel Federal invasion from that quarter . . . For the past seven or eight years he has been captain of the Galveston Artillery Company, an organization of forty years' standing, which originated in the darkest days of the Texas republic." The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.
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