Edward Daniel Linn

Full Name: Edward Daniel "Ed" Linn
Date of birth: December 18, 1848
Date of death: January 27, 1898

Terms of Service
Biographical Notes
Committee Information

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Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Counties in District
S	22	Jan 12, 1897 - Jan 27, 1898	25th	Democrat	Victoria / Victoria	Atascosa, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Frio, Goliad, Jackson, Karnes, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen, Refugio, Victoria, Wilson
H	87	Jan 13, 1885 - Nov 16, 1885	19th ⁽¹⁾	Democrat	Victoria / Victoria	Aransas, Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Refugio, Victoria
H	58	Jan 11, 1881 - Jan 9, 1883	17th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾	Democrat	Victoria / Victoria	Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Refugio, Victoria
H	58	Jan 14, 1879 - Jan 11, 1881	16th ⁽⁴⁾	Democrat	Victoria / Victoria	Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Refugio, Victoria
H	24	Jan 13, 1874 - Apr 18, 1876	14th	Democrat	Victoria / Victoria	Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Karnes, Live Oak, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria

(1) Linn resigned 11/16/1885. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
(2) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News.
(3) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas, 1881.
(4) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News.

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Senate District 22
Jan 12, 1897 - Jan 27, 1898
Legislatures: 25th
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Victoria / Victoria
Counties in district: Atascosa, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Frio, Goliad, Jackson, Karnes, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen, Refugio, Victoria, Wilson

House District 87
Jan 13, 1885 - Nov 16, 1885
Legislatures: 19th ⁽¹⁾
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Victoria / Victoria
Counties in district: Aransas, Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Refugio, Victoria

House District 58
Jan 11, 1881 - Jan 9, 1883
Legislatures: 17th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Victoria / Victoria
Counties in district: Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Refugio, Victoria

House District 58
Jan 14, 1879 - Jan 11, 1881
Legislatures: 16th ⁽⁴⁾
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Victoria / Victoria
Counties in district: Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Refugio, Victoria

House District 24
Jan 13, 1874 - Apr 18, 1876
Legislatures: 14th
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Victoria / Victoria
Counties in district: Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Karnes, Live Oak, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria

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Resolutions and Journal entries

26th Legislature, R.S., 1/30/1899, p. 118. Resolutions - Memorial.
26th Legislature, R.S., 1/30/1899, p. 184. "The House of Representatives have heard with profound sorrow of the death of Hon. Ed. Linn." Resolutions - Memorial.

Biographical Sketches

JOHN JOSEPH LINN (1798-1885) served in Second and Third congresses of the Republic of Texas, 1837-1839. Relatives: John Joseph Linn - father; Edward Daniel Linn - son. Handbook of Texas Online.
LINN, EDWARD DANIEL (1848-1898). Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical sketch, E.D. Linn, pp. 39-40. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature, 1885.
Biographical sketch, Edward D. Linn, pp. 28-30. Born 12/18/1848 in Victoria. Father John J. Linn. Brother William F. Linn was engrossing clerk in the Senate in the 25th "and previous Texas legislatures." Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature, 1897.

Other Resources

Mentioned in VICTORIA ADVOCATE. Handbook of Texas Online.
25th Legislature (1897) - E.D. Linn, postoffice Victoria, county Victoria, nativity Texas, editor, Democrat, served in former sessions: 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 19th House. Texas Legislative Manual.
Biographal sketch, p. 267. "Elected to the Fifteenth Legislature to fill a vacancy." Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80, 1879.

Photographs

Photograph. E.D. Linn, 25th Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. E.D. Linn, 19th Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. E.D. Linn, 17th Legislature, Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Photograph. E.D. Linn, 14th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

25th session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber gallery, west wall. 3E.5). State Preservation Board.
14th session composite photo of Senate and House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board.
19th session composite photo of House members (House chamber vestibule, west wall. 2W.V1). State Preservation Board.
17th session composite photo of House members (Texas State Library and Archives Commission). Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

Committee Information top

25th R.S. - 1897 Claims and Accounts (Chair) Commerce and Manufacturing Counties and County Boundaries Finance Insurance, Statistics and History (Chair) Investigation Relative to Missing Amendment to S.B. No. 258 - Text-book Bill, Special Public Lands Public Printing
19th R.S. - 1885 Comptroller's and Treasurer's Office, Examine Contingent Expenses Educational Funeral of General William Steele Laying the Cornerstone of the New Capitol (Co-Chair) Memorial Resolutions for Hons. J.P. Ayres, J.B. Davis, and George Meriwether, Members of the Eighteenth Legislature Revenue and Taxation (Chair)
17th R.S. - 1881 Engrossed Bills (Chair) Finance Public Debt Public Printing State Printing Office at the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb (Chair) Stockraising
16th R.S. - 1879 Agriculture and Stock Raising Constitutional Amendments Engrossed Bills (Chair) Finance Funeral and Remains of the Late Honorable Gustave Schleicher (Co-Chair) Penal Code, Select Printing Privileges and Elections Public Debt Public Health, Vital Statistics and History of Texas
14th R.S. - 1874 Asylum and Public Building Repairs Bureau of Tax Rolls in Comptroller's Department Constitutional Amendments Counties and County Boundaries Enrolled Bills (Chair) Federal Relations Immigration Printing and Contingent Expenses Removal of Judge L.M. Cooper, 3rd Judicial District Vacancy in 13th Senatorial District, I.N. Baughman

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