Full Name: Albert Jennings Fountain
Other surnames:
Jennings
Birth date: October 23, 1838
Death date: February 1, 1896
Terms of Service
-
Senate,
13th
(1)
(2)
(5)
& 12th
(3)
(4)
Legislatures
2/8/1870 - 1/13/1874
Radical Republican
Senate President Pro Tempore, Adjourned Session (Webster Flanagan and Albert J. Fountain).
(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)
Republican.
Directory of the Members of the Thirteenth Legislature of the State of Texas 1873.
(3)
12th Legislature, 1st C.S. - Drawing for Terms of Office, 5/2/1870, pp. 51-52. Drew 4-year term.
Senate Journal .
(4)
12th Legislature, Regular Session - Senate President Pro Tempore, elected 3/30/1871, Regular Session, due to the vacancy in the office of Lieutenant Governor and the absence of the President Pro Tem.
Senate Journal .
(5)
"Returning radicals [to the 13th Legislature] were Thomas H. Baker, Webster Flanagan, S.W. Ford, Albert J. Fountain, Matthew Gaines, Phidello W. Hall, Henry Rawson, George T. Ruby, William A. Saylor, and Robert P. Tendick," p. 145.
The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.