Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Edward T. Randle

Full Name: Edward T. "Ed" Randle
Birth date: February 4, 1841
Death date: September 6, 1876

Terms of Service

Senate, 14th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ ⁽⁸⁾ Legislature
1/13/1874 - 4/18/1876
Radical Republican
Senate, 13th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁷⁾ ⁽⁹⁾ Legislature
1/14/1873 - 1/13/1874
Republican

(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) Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Ordinance adopted by Constitutional Convention of the State of Texas, 1875. Remained in effect from its passage until first reapportionment after 1880 Census. University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History. Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(3) Republican. Directory of the Members and Officers of the Fourteenth Legislature of the State of Texas . . . 1874.
(4) Republican. Directory of the Members of the Thirteenth Legislature of the State of Texas 1873.
(5) "Aspect of Affairs at Austin," Wed., 1/14/1874, p. 1, opening day of 14th Leg., R.S.: "The appearance of Senators Flanagan and Randle...These Senators would not have taken the oath and their seats in the 14th Leg. had there been any doubt as to the de facto stability of that body." "News' telegrams, from Austin: organization of both houses...": "After the Senate had been in session some three hours, Webster Flanagan and E.T. Randle came in and were sworn in." Galveston Daily News .
(6) Roster of members elect lists party as Radical, p. [a], 14th Legislature, Part 1. Senate Journal .
(7) 13th Legislature - Senators elect qualified and took their seats, 1/14/1873, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(8) "Because of the adoption of the new constitution [of 1876], any member of the 14th Legislature who wished to continue to serve had to run for reelection," p. 220. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.
(9) 13th Legislature - Edward T. Randle listed as Republican, pp. 145, 150. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. E.T. Randle, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
Photograph. E.T. Randle, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Ed. Randle, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

E.T. Randle, Huntsville, Walker County, born in Georgia, farmer, age 32 (born circa 1841). Directory of the Members of the Thirteenth Legislature of the State of Texas 1873.
Listed in "Men who have represented Grimes County in the House of Representatives/State Senate, 1846-1931," pp. 205-209. Includes Date, Legislatures, District, and Source of Data. Early History of Grimes County 1930.
Edward T. Randle, birth date 2/4/1841, death date 9/6/1876, burial in Prairie Lea Cemetery, Brenham, Washington County. Find a Grave .
Death notice, Denison Daily News, 9/9/1876, p. 2, crediting the Grayson County Frontier Village. "Hon. E.T. Randle, member of the senate of the Twelfth [sic], Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Legislatures, died in Austin on the 6th inst., after a very short illness." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .