Isaac Newton Baughman
Full Name: Isaac Newton "Newt" Baughman
Date of birth: August 12, 1843
Date of death: September 27, 1876
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Elected but never sworn
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14th
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Radical Republican
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Wharton / Wharton
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Austin, Fort Bend, Wharton
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Report of the special committee inquiring into whether a vacancy in office exists in the 13th Senatorial District, finding I.N. Baughman left Wharton County on 12/15/1873 and that Baughman is at present a resident of Shreveport, Louisiana, and does not intend to return nor qualify as a member of the 14th Legislature; report adopted, 4/4/1874, pp. 342-343.
House Journal.
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Baughman elected, but never sworn. Failed to qualify.
Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
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R.H. Wood, in special election 11/3/1874, sworn 1/12/1875, succeeded J.N. Baughman, failed to qualify.
Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
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Biographical Notes and Resources top
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Birth date 8/12/1843; death date 9/27/1876; murdered in Wharton County, Texas.
Ancestry.com.
Synopsis of the matter of the assassination of Isaac Newton Baughman, near Egypt, Wharton County, Texas, on the 28th of August, 1876.
Congressional Serial Set.
Mentioned in Part 8, Note 68,
Consider the Lily: the Ungilded History of Colorado County, Texas.
"An Ex-Sheriff of Wharton Killed," 8/29/1876, p. 1.
Galveston Daily News.
"Trouble in Wharton County," 11/14/1873, p. 3. "Gray Franks, late Senator from that district, had a misunderstanding with Mr. Boffman [sic] — the present Sheriff of Wharton County, and nominee of the Radical party for the Senate in Mr. Frank's place — in which Mr. Boffman received the contents of a double-barrel shot-gun."
Galveston Daily News.
Attempted murder of I.N. Baughman and murder of Gray Franks discussed in "Southern Law and Order," 9/25/1876, p. 8.
New York Times.
"Assassination in Texas," Janesville Gazette (Janesville, Wisconsin), 9/20/1876, p. 1.
NewspaperARCHIVE.com.
"The Other Side of the Story," letter to the editor, 3/11/1875, reprinted from the Colorado Citizen and excerpt of a letter to Enoch Baughman regarding the murder of his son, 8/30/1876, reprinted from the Brownstone, Indiana newspaper.
RootsWeb.com Internet genealogical service.
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14th session composite photo of Senate and House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board.
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