Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Albert Hamilton Latimer

Full Name: Albert Hamilton Latimer
Birth date: May 25, 1808
Death date: January 27, 1877

Terms of Service

Senate, 3rd ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ Legislature
11/5/1849 - 11/3/1851

(1) Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Act approved Jan. 16, 1850, 3rd Legislature, ch. 44. Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(2) 2nd Senatorial District comprised of Red River and Lamar Counties. Act approved Mar. 1848, 2nd Legislature, ch. 162, Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(3) Roster of members elect of the 3rd Legislature, Matthewson, R.C., Texas State Gazette (Austin, Texas), 9/29/1849, p. 6, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(4) 3rd Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators, oath of office, 11/5/1849, p. 3. Senate Journal .
(5) La Grange, Red River County (alternate name: Madras). Texas Towns Database (Texas Almanac) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. Albert H. Latimer, Texas Jurists Collection

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, p. 121. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 1942.
Albert Hamilton Latimer, birth date 5/25/1808, death date 1/27/1877, burial in Clarksville Cemetery, Red River County. Find a Grave .
LATIMER, ALBERT HAMILTON (1800?-1877). "In 1834 the Latimers moved to a place northeast of the site of present Clarksville, where they and others founded the town of La Grange (later called Madras)." Signer of Texas Declaration of Independence. Handbook of Texas Online .
LATIMER, HENRY RUSSELL (1817-1887). Relatives: Henry Russell Latimer and Albert Hamilton Latimer - brothers. Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch of the Latimer family, History of Clarksville and Old Red River County, pp. 107-109 . HeritageQuest Online .
Biographical sketch and portrait, Albert Hamilton Latimer, Associate Justice, Texas Supreme Court, 1867-1869. Justices of Texas, 1836-1986 (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2004.
Account of conditions in Clarksville during Reconstruction. Albert Latimer served as subassistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau under Inspector General William H. Sinclair, pp. 198-200, Overreached on All Sides: the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas Administrators, 1865-1868 1991.
Mentioned in history of Senatorial redistricting for Lamar County, "Backward Glances (from the scrapbooks of the late A.W. Neville, Editor of the Paris News, 1936-1956, 3/14/1951)," republished 8/26/1976, p. 6. Paris News .
Latimer, Albert Hamilton, burial in Clarksville Cemetery, Red River County. Political Graveyard: a Database of Historic Cemeteries .
Included in "Table II, Constitutional Unionists (Identified from newspapers) with Biographical Data," list of leaders of the Texas Constitutional Union Party in 1860. The party was formed in January of 1860. "The Constitutional Union Party in Texas," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 82, Number 3, January 1979, pp. 238, 256-262, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) . Table II, Constitutional Unionists
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1866. Journal of the Texas State Convention: Assembled at Austin, Feb. 7, 1866. Adjourned April 2, 1866, pp. 3-5. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1845. Journals of the Convention, assembled at the city of Austin on the Fourth of July, 1845, for the purpose of framing a constitution for the State of Texas, pp. 377-378. Austin: Miner & Cruger, printers to the Convention, 1845. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
Biographical sketch, p. 196. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.