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William Allen
Full Name: William Allen
Date of birth: March 18, 1832
Date of death: August 12, 1908
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Terms of Service top
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Dates of Service |
Legislatures |
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Counties in District |
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Jan 11, 1887 - Jan 13, 1891
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20th
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21st
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Unaffiliated
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Rock Hill / Collin
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Collin, Denton
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(1)
Democrat.
Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives.
(2)
List of Senators of the 21st Legislature, "The State Senate: Members-Elect in the Different Districts - Austin Local Notes," Galveston Daily News, 11/20/1888, p. 6, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. "There are two independents in the list. The rest are democratic nominees."
Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
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Roster of senators and representatives of the 20th Legislature with their postoffice address, Austin Weekly Statesman, "Governmental," 12/30/1886, p. 6.
Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
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20th Legislature - Roll call of new members, oath of office administered, 1/11/1887, p. 1.
Senate Journal.
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Biographical Notes and Resources top
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Biographical Sketches |
Poem, pp. 25-26; photo and biographical sketch, p. 47, birth date 3/18/1834, death date 8/12/1908; election results, p. 365.
History and Reminiscences of Denton County, 1918.
Biographical sketch, William Allen, pp. 62-63.
Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature, 1887.
Portrait and biographical sketch, William Allen, pp. 155-156. Born 3/18/1835 in Barren County, Kentucky. "A Jeffersonian Democrat of the real old kind."
Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature, 1889.
Biographical sketch, Rev. William Allen, pp. 365-367. Birth date 3/18/1834, "died recently at Frisco, Collin County, Texas" (book published 10/27/1908).
Sixty Years in Texas, 1908.
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Military Service Notes |
Confederate States Army, military chaplain.
Sixty Years in Texas, 1908.
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Other Resources |
Rev. Wm. Allen, birth date 3/18/1832, death date 8/12/1908 on grave marker, portrait, burial in Pecan Springs Cemetery, Collin County.
Find a Grave.
"Mortuary, William Allen Dead," 8/13/1908, p. 3. Denton, Texas, 8/12/1908. Died at home in Collin County "this morning . . . aged nearly 88 years." "Although a staunch Democrat, he made the race as an independent for the State Senate . . ."
Galveston Daily News.
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Photographs |
Photograph.
Wm. Allen, 21st Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph.
Wm. Allen, 20th Legislature, State Preservation Board
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Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol |
20th session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber vestibule, west wall. 2E.V1). State Preservation Board.
21st session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber gallery, west wall. 3E.5). State Preservation Board.
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