Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Willis Scott Bledsoe

Full Name: Willis Scott Bledsoe
Birth date: February 5, 1837
Death date: February 14, 1877

Photograph. W.S. Bledsoe, State Preservation Board
Photograph. W.S. Bledsoe, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs

Captain of a company in 4th Tennessee Cavalry, later promoted to rank of major. W.S. Bledsoe, served in the state legislature in 1870-1871 during the Davis administration. Father of William H. Bledsoe, Volume III, p. 1321. A History of Texas and Texans 1914.
Confederate States Army, Captain, 4th Regiment, Company F, Tennessee Cavalry (Murray's). Willis S. Bledsoe. Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System .
Willis Scott Bledsoe, birth date 2/5/1837, death date 2/14/1877, portrait, burial in Cleburne Memorial Cemetery, Cleburne, Johnson County. Find a Grave .
W.S. Bledsoe, Cleburne, Johnson County, p. 46, "admitted 1860, at Jamestown, Tennessee; was member Thirteenth Legislature." Texas Legal Directory for 1876-77 1877.
"William Harrison Bledsoe and the Founding of Texas Tech University, " Vol. 78, 2002, pp. 38-53. Relatives: Willis Scott Bledsoe - father; William Harrison Bledsoe - son. West Texas Historical Association Yearbook 1925.