Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Francis Marion Dougherty

Full Name: Francis Marion Dougherty
Other surnames: Daugherty
Birth date: February 13, 1826
Death date: December 27, 1895

Terms of Service

House, 17th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽³⁾ Legislature
1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
Democrat
House, 16th ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ Legislature
1/14/1879 - 1/11/1881
Democrat
House, 6th ⁽⁴⁾ Legislature
11/5/1855 - 11/2/1857

(1) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(2) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.
(4) Included "[a]mong 1855 legislators that this writer has positively identified as Know Nothings." The party was active in Texas at the state level between 1855 and 1857. "An Analysis of the Texas Know Nothings," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 3, January 1967, pp. 414, 416-417, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(5) Bio spells name Dougherty; roster spells name Daugherty. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. F.M. Dougherty, Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Other Resources

DOUGHERTY, FRANCIS M. (1826-unknown). Birth date 2/13/1826, "buried in Brownfield Cemetery [Terry County] sometime after the first burial occurred there in 1905." Handbook of Texas Online .
Confederate States Army, Captain, Company A, 16th Texas Cavalry. Handbook of Texas Online .
Historical marker, F.M. Dougherty, Gainesville, Cooke County. Francis Marion Dougherty, birth date 2/13/1826, death date 12/27/1895. Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission) .
Biographical sketch, Francis M. Dougherty, p. 265. Birth date 1/13/1829. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.
Biographical sketch, Captain Francis M. Dougherty, pp. 416-417. The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.