Terms of Service

• House, 17th ^{(1) (3)} Legislature
  1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
  Democrat
  
• House, 16th ⁽²⁾ Legislature
  1/14/1879 - 1/11/1881
  Democrat
  
• House, 15th Legislature
  4/18/1876 - 1/14/1879
  Democrat
  

(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.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

• Photograph. John McComb, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. John McComb, Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Other Resources

• Biographical sketch, Hon. John E. McComb, p. 545. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families 1889.
• Judge John Evans McComb, birth date 8/5/1848 in Miller, Missouri, death date 10/10/1926 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, lawyer--U.S. Dist. Attorney. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
• MCCOMB, JOHN EVANS (1848-?). Handbook of Texas Online .
• Biographical sketch, pp. 98-99. Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878 1876.
• Biographical sketch, p. 261. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.
• Biographical sketch, Hon. John E. McComb, pp. 288-289. The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.
• Photo and biographical sketch, John Evans McComb, pp. 196-199. Born 8/3/1848 in Cooper County, Missouri. Types of Successful Men of Texas 1890.

Committee Information

• 17th R.S. - 1881
• Judiciary No. 2 (Chair) 
• Penitentiaries  
• Rules  
• Senatorial and Representative Districts  
• 16th R.S. - 1879
• Assessment and Collection of Taxes  
• Code of Criminal Procedure, Select  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Education  
• Finance  
• Funeral and Remains of the Late Honorable Gustave Schleicher  
• Judiciary No. 2 (Chair) 
• New Judiciary Article to the Constitution  
• Reduction of Expenses in Departments, Select  
• 15th R.S. - 1876
• Assessment and Collection of Taxes  
• Capitol Grounds, Accounts of Superintendent F. Voigt (Chair) 
• Finance  
• Internal Improvements  
• Judiciary No. 1  
• Privileges and Elections  
• State Asylums