Pendleton Murrah

Full Name: Pendleton Murrah
Date of birth: November 1826
Date of death: August 4, 1865

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Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 15 Nov 12, 1857 - Nov 7, 1859 7th (1) (2) (3) (4)     Marshall / Harrison   Harrison

(1) Members of the Seventh Legislature, Biographical Notes - Members, April 1937 issue. Southern Historical Research Magazine, 1937.
(2) Murrah and Latham took the oath of office on 11/12/1857, p. 91. House Journal.
(3) Democrat. Roster of 7th Legislature, "Texas Legislature Complete for 1857-8," 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).
(4) Election of L.T. Wigfall for State Senator and Eli T. Craig, William F. Baldwin, and lawyer Pendleton Murrah, for House of Representatives in election of August, 1857 - "the state legislative races were decided in favor of the Democrats . . .," p. 169. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880, 1983.

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House District 15
Nov 12, 1857 - Nov 7, 1859
Legislatures: 7th (1) (2) (3) (4)  
Home City/County: Marshall / Harrison
Counties in district: Harrison

(1) Members of the Seventh Legislature, Biographical Notes - Members, April 1937 issue. Southern Historical Research Magazine, 1937.
(2) Murrah and Latham took the oath of office on 11/12/1857, p. 91. House Journal.
(3) Democrat. Roster of 7th Legislature, "Texas Legislature Complete for 1857-8," 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).
(4) Election of L.T. Wigfall for State Senator and Eli T. Craig, William F. Baldwin, and lawyer Pendleton Murrah, for House of Representatives in election of August, 1857 - "the state legislative races were decided in favor of the Democrats . . .," p. 169. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880, 1983.

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Biographical Sketches

  • Pendleton Murrah, mentioned as successful candidate for Governor, with portrait, Volume II, p. 143: "Pendleton Murrah was a prominent lawyer in his section of the State, had been in the legislature from his county, and, before being a candidate for governor, was quartermaster or commissary in some regiment organized for the war. . ." A Comprehensive History of Texas, 1685 to 1897.
  • Biographical sketch, pp. 45-46. Governors Who Have Been, and Other Public Men of Texas, 1921.
  • MURRAH, PENDLETON (ca. 1826-1865). Handbook of Texas Online.
  • Pendleton Murrah, mentioned in "Governors of Texas," Volume 1, p. 204. The New Encyclopedia of Texas, 1926.
  • Portrait and biographical sketch, Pendleton Murrah, pp. 41-42. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature, 1892.
  • Biographical sketch, governor of Texas during the defeat and break up of Confederacy in Texas, died in Mexico during July, 1865, p. 99. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880, 1983.
  • Biographical sketch, pp. 34-35. Texans Who Wore the Gray, 1907.
  • Biographical sketch and portrait, pp. 139, Plate No. 58. Texas in the War, 1861-1865, 1965.
  • Murrah, Pendleton. Cenotaph. Birth date November 1826, death date 8/4/1865. Texas State Cemetery.

Military Service Notes

  • Confederate States Army, 14th Texas Infantry. "He served briefly as a quartermaster officer in the Fourteenth Texas Infantry in early 1862 but was forced by poor health to resign his commission." Handbook of Texas Online.

Other Resources

  • Governor of Texas 1863-1865. Legislative Reference Library, Governors of Texas, 1846-present.
  • The Secession Crisis, 1860-1861: Marshall's mayor appointed "three current or former Democratic state legislators" to a resolutions committee, including Pendleton Murrah, M.J. Hall, and J.M. Clough, p. 184. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880, 1983.

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7th R.S. - 1857
Federal Relations (Chair) 
Judiciary  
Message of the Governor on Kansas Affairs  
Public Lands  

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