Terms of Service

• House, 7th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
  11/2/1857 - 11/7/1859
   
  
• House, 6th Legislature
  11/5/1855 - 11/2/1857
   
  
• House, 5th Legislature
  11/7/1853 - 11/5/1855
   
  

(1) Democrat. Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 9/8/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

• 5th Legislature - Roll of Members, A.J. Witt, age 38, native state Illinois, emigrated from Illinois in 1841, farmer, postoffice Dallas, Dallas County. House Journal .

Other Resources

• Confederate States Army, Captain, Major, and Assistant Quartermaster, 6th Texas Cavalry, Company F, enlistment and muster date 9/1/1861 in Fannin County, Texas. Born 1815 in Illinois; died 1872 in Dallas County, Texas, burial in Oakland Cemetery, Dallas. Andrew Jackson Witt, U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865. Ancestry.com .
• WITT, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1870). Birth date 8/13/1815, death date 2/9/1870. Handbook of Texas Online .
• Mentioned in Brown, John Henry. History of Dallas County, Texas: from 1837 to 1887, 1887. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Committee Information

• 7th R.S. - 1857
• Judicial Districts  
• Penitentiary  
• Private Land Claims  
• Privileges and Elections  
• 6th R.S. - 1855
• County and County Boundaries  
• Land Office (Chair) 
• Private Land Claims No. 1  
• 5th R.S. - 1853
• County Boundaries  
• Land Office