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Benjamin Franklin Phillips Full Name: Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Phillips Date of birth: April 22, 1845 Date of death: May 31, 1927 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District H 25 Jan 10, 1893 - Jan 8, 1895 23rd   Democrat West Mountain / Upshur   Camp, Upshur H 11 Jan 13, 1891 - Jan 10, 1893 22nd   Democrat West Mountain / Upshur   Camp, Upshur   Biographical Notes and Resources top Military Service Notes Confederate States Army, Company B, 35th Texas Cavalry. Benjamin Franklin Phillips, born circa 1845 in Tennessee, death date 5/31/1927 in Upshur County, Texas; widow Mrs. M.J. Phillips, marriage date 6/25/1874 in Rusk County. Pension File Nos. 18483 (B.F. Phillips) and 43104 (Benjamin Franklin Phillips), Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com. Confederate States Army, Private, Company B, 35th Regiment Texas Cavalry. Military grave marker, Ben F. Phillips, birth date 4/22/1845, death date 5/31/1927, burial in West Mountain Cemetery, Upshur County. Includes historical marker of Ben Phillips Place noting service as legislator and death notice from Shreveport Times, 6/3/1927. Find a Grave. Other Resources Historical market text, Ben Phillips Place, Upshur County. "He represented Upshur-Camp counties, 1890-94, in Texas Legislature." Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission). 23rd Legislature (1893) - B.F. Phillips, postoffice West Mountain, nativity Tennessee, age 48 (born circa 1845), farmer, 42 years in Texas, member of previous legislature: 22nd, Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual. Photographs Photograph. B.F. Phillips, 23rd Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. B.F. Phillips, 23rd Legislature, Texas State Library and Archives Commission Photograph. B.F. Phillips, 22nd Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 22nd session composite photo of House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, north wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board. 23rd session composite photo of House members (House chamber vestibule, east wall. 2W.V1). State Preservation Board. 23rd session composite photo of House members by Hill (Texas State Library and Archives Commission). Texas State Library and Archives Commission. 23rd session composite photo of House members by Journeay (Texas State Library and Archives Commission). Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Committee Informationtop 23rd R.S. - 1893 Claims and Accounts (Chair)  Roads, Bridges and Ferries   State Affairs   22nd R.S. - 1891 Insurance, Statistics, and History   Labor   Public Lands and Land Office   Revenue and Taxation   Roads, Bridges and Ferries

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