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Samuel Evans

Sam'l Evans
Full Name: Samuel "Sam" Evans
Birth date: October 28, 1831
Death date: January 2, 1905

Terms of Service

  • Senate, 13th (1) (2) (8) & 12th (4) (5) (6) (7) (9) Legislatures
    2/10/1870 - 1/13/1874
    Unaffiliated
  • House, 11th (3) Legislature
    8/6/1866 - 2/7/1870
     
(1) Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Act passed Apr. 24, 1873 [presented to Governor May 1, 1873 and became law without his signature], 13th Legislature, R.S., ch. 35, Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(2) Democrat. Directory of the Members of the Thirteenth Legislature of the State of Texas 1873.
(3) Roster of 11th Legislature, House of Representatives, "Texas Legislative Proceedings," 8/11/1866, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(4) Samuel Evans refused to qualify 2/8/1870, qualified 2/10/1870, and did not attend Called Session until 5/28/1870, when he again qualified. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(5) 12th Legislature, 1st C.S. - Drawing for Terms of Office, 5/2/1870, pp. 51-52. Drew 6-year term. Senate Journal .
(6) 12th Legislature, Provisional Session - Samuel Evans declined qualifying, 2/8/1870, p. 4; qualified 2/10/1870, p. 5. Senate Journal . February 8, 1870
February 10, 1870
(7) 12th Legislature - party affiliation, Conservative. Texas Almanac for . . . and Emigrant's Guide to Texas .
(8) Fifteen members of the 13th Legislature were conservative Democrats. These fifteen were joined by E. Thomas Broughton and Captain Samuel Evans, "both returning conservative independents," p. 145. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.
(9) "Like Captain Samuel Evans of neighboring District Twenty-One, he [Broughton] was unwilling to ally himself with any of the political coteries. He ran for the Senate against both a Democrat and a Republican and was elected," p. 91. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.

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