Terms of Service

• Senate, 13th ^{(1) (2) (6)} & 12th ^{(3) (4) (5)} Legislatures
  2/8/1870 - 1/13/1874
  Democrat
  

(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) 12th Legislature, Provisional Session - Reports concerning the election contest between J.H. Lippard and W.H. Pyle. Committee on Elections recommends Pyle retain his seat, 2/21/1870, printed in journal 2/22/1870, pp. 34-36. Senate Journal .
(4) 12th Legislature, 1st C.S. - Drawing for Terms of Office, 5/2/1870, pp. 51-52. Drew 4-year term. Senate Journal .
(5) 12th Legislature - party affiliation, Conservative. Texas Almanac for . . . and Emigrant's Guide to Texas .
(6) 13th Legislature - Included in list of 15 Senate members that were conservative Democrats, p. 145. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

• Photograph. William H. Pyle, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
• Photograph. Dr. W.H. Pyle, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Biographical sketch, William H. Pyle, M.D., pp. 694-695. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families 1889.
• William H. Pyle, Kaufman, Kaufman County, born in Ohio, physician, age 37. Directory of the Members of the Thirteenth Legislature of the State of Texas 1873.
• Death notices and biographical sketch, Dr. W.H. Pyle. Born either 6/9 or 7/9/1833, died 2/9/1891. Kaufman County, TXGenWeb Project .

Committee Information

• 13th R.S. - 1873
• Agriculture (Chair) 
• Contingent Expenses (Chair) 
• Federal Relations  
• Immigration  
• Internal Improvements  
• Penitentiary  
• Roads, Bridges and Ferries  
• 12th Adjourned - 1871
• Claims and Accounts  
• Comptroller's and Treasurer's Accounts, Examine  
• Immigration  
• Indian Affairs and Frontier Protection  
• Internal Improvements  
• Superintendent of Education  
• 12th R.S. - 1871
• Claims and Accounts  
• Examine Comptroller's and Treasurer's Accounts  
• Immigration  
• Indian Affairs and Frontier Protection  
• Internal Improvements  
• 12th 1st C.S. - 1870
• Claims and Accounts  
• Comptroller's and Treasurer's Accounts, Examine  
• Immigration  
• Indian Affairs and Frontier Protection  
• Internal Improvements  
• 12th Provisional - 1870
• Printing