Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Franklin Pierce Alexander

Full Name: Franklin Pierce "Frank" Alexander
Birth date: September 1, 1853
Death date: August 25, 1913

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(2) Roster of senators and representatives of the 20th Legislature with their postoffice address, Austin Weekly Statesman, "Governmental," 12/30/1886, p. 6. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(3) Roster of Representatives of the 21st Legislature, "Twenty-First Legislature: Members of the House, Address, Occupation and Politics," Galveston Daily News, 1/5/1889, p. 2, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Photograph. Franklin Pierce Alexander, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
Photograph. F.P. Alexander, State Preservation Board
Photograph. F.P. Alexander, State Preservation Board

Franklin P. Alexander, birth date 9/1/1853, death date 8/25/1913, burial in Rose Hill Cemetery, Wapanucka, Johnston County, Oklahoma. Find a Grave .
ALEXANDER, FRANKLIN PIERCE (1853-1913). Handbook of Texas Online .
Obituary, "F.P. Alexander Dies," Frederick Weekly Enterprise (Frederick, Oklahoma), 8/29/1913, p. 4. "He was born in one of the Carolinas, moving to Greenville, Texas, when a young man where he married Col. J.C. Bayne's daughter. He was connected with several papers in the Lone Star State, was elected to the legislature and was for a time speaker of the lower house." Newspapers.com .
Biographical sketch, F.P. Alexander, pp. 5-6. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
Portrait and biographical sketch, Frank P. Alexander, pp. 99-101. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
Portrait and biographical sketch, Frank P. Alexander, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, pp. 220-222. Born 9/1/1853 in Pickens, South Carolina. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
30th Speaker of the House of Representatives: Franklin Pierce Alexander. Photo and biographical sketch. Alexander born "apparently on September 1, 1853, although one source cites the same date in 1855." Death date 8/25/1913. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.