Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Benjamin Dudley Tarlton

Full Name: Benjamin Dudley Tarlton, Sr.
Birth date: October 18, 1849
Death date: September 22, 1919

Terms of Service

House, 19th ⁽²⁾ Legislature
1/13/1885 - 1/11/1887
Democrat
House, 17th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
Democrat

(1) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.
(2) Member of the Democratic Executive Committee of the State in both 1882 and 1884. Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas, 1892, p. 726, crediting Dallas Genealogical Society. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

Mentioned in memorial resolution for son, Benjamin Dudley Tarlton, Jr., 55th Legislature, R.S., HSR 184. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

Photograph. B.D. Tarlton, Texas Jurists Collection
Photograph. B.D. Tarlton, Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Photograph. B.D. Tarlton, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Photo and biographical sketch (Frances Tarlton "Sissy" Farenthold). Relatives: Benjamin Dudley Tarlton - grandfather, Frances Tarlton "Sissy" Farenthold - granddaughter. Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators, 1923-1999 2000.
TARLTON, BENJAMIN DUDLEY (1849-1919). Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch and portrait, Wright Chalfant Morrow, Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 1917-1921; Presiding Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 1921-1939. Relatives: W.C. Morrow and Benjamin D. Tarlton - brothers-in-law. Justices of Texas, 1836-1986 (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2004.
Portrait. Men of Texas: a Collection of Portraits 1903.
Portrait and biographical sketch, B.D. Tarlton, Judge, p. 97. Born 10/18/1849 in St. Marys Parish, Louisiana. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
Biographical sketch, B.D. Tarlton, pp. 52-53. Born 10/18/1849 in the Parish of St. Mary, Louisiana. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
Biographical sketch, Judge Benjamin Dudley Tarlton. Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas, 1892, pp. 725-726, crediting Dallas Genealogical Society. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .