Felix Ezell Smith

Full Name: Felix Ezell Smith
Date of birth: August 10, 1831
Date of death: February 5, 1891

Terms of Service
Biographical Notes
Committee Information

Terms of Service top

Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Counties in District
H	75	Jan 8, 1889 - Jan 13, 1891	21st ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾	Democrat	Bluff Springs / Travis	Travis
H	75	Jan 13, 1885 - Jan 11, 1887	19th ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾	Democrat	Bluff Springs / Travis	Travis
H	75	Jan 9, 1883 - Jan 13, 1885	18th ⁽⁶⁾	Democrat	Bluff Springs / Travis	Travis
H	65	Jan 14, 1879 - Jan 11, 1881	16th ⁽⁷⁾	Democrat	Bluff Springs / Travis	Travis
H	28	Jan 13, 1874 - Apr 18, 1876	14th ⁽⁸⁾ ⁽⁹⁾ ⁽¹⁰⁾	Democrat	Bluff Springs / Travis	Blanco, Burnet, Concho, Lampasas, Llano, McCulloch, San Saba, Travis, Williamson

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives.
(2) F.E. Smith, Austin. Roster of Representatives of the 21st Legislature, "Twenty-First Legislature: Members of the House, Address, Occupation and Politics," Galveston Daily News, 1/5/1889, p. 2, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
(3) Listed as the Democratic candidate in the 1884 election for State Representative of Travis county. Galveston Daily News.
(4) Del Valle, Travis County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
(5) "In 1851, he came to Texas and settled at his present home, Bluff Springs, Travis county," p. 52. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature, 1885.
(6) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas, 1883.
(7) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News.
(8) Austin, Travis County. Directory of the Members and Officers of the Fourteenth Legislature of the State of Texas . . ., 1874.
(9) BLUFF SPRINGS, TEXAS. Bluff Springs is on Onion Creek eight miles south of Austin and two miles east of Interstate Highway 35 in southern Travis County. It was settled in the early 1850s, and a post office opened there in 1853 with William S. Smith as postmaster. Handbook of Texas Online.
(10) Bluff Springs, Travis County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.

Biographical Notes and Resources top

Resolutions and Journal entries

22nd Legislature, R.S., 3/13/1891, pp. 589-598. Resolutions - Memorial.

Biographical Sketches

SMITH, FELIX EZELL (1831-1891). Smith died at his home at Bluff Springs on 2/5/1891. Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical sketch, F.E. Smith, p. 52. Born 8/10/1831 in Lincoln, now Moore County, Tennessee. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature, 1885.
Portrait and biographical sketch, Felix Ezel Smith, pp. 306-309. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature, 1889.
Biographical sketch, p. 269. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80, 1879.
Biographical sketch, p. 266. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83, 1883.

Military Service Notes

Confederate States Army, 1st Lieutenant, "Confederate forces in the Rio Grande district under John S. Ford." Handbook of Texas Online.
Confederate States Army, 1st Lieutenant, Ford's Texas Brigade; Captain of an independent volunteer company of infantry. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature, 1885.

Other Resources

Mentioned in "Through the Years - San Saba Representatives in Legislative History," 4/1/1948, p. 9. San Saba News.

Photographs

Photograph. Felix Smith, 21st Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. F.E. Smith, 19th Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. F.E. Smith, 18th Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. F.E. Smith, 14th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

14th session composite photo of Senate and House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board.
18th session composite photo of House members (House chamber vestibule, east wall. 2W.V1). State Preservation Board.
19th session composite photo of House members (House chamber vestibule, west wall. 2W.V1). State Preservation Board.
21st session composite photo of House members (House chamber vestibule, west wall. 2W.V1). State Preservation Board.

Committee Information top

21st R.S. - 1889 Claims and Accounts Penitentiaries Public Buildings and Grounds (Chair) Revenue and Taxation
19th R.S. - 1885 Agricultural Public Buildings and Grounds (Chair) Revenue and Taxation
18th R.S. - 1883 Commerce and Manufactures County Government and County Finance Finance Internal Improvements Public Buildings and Grounds (Chair)
16th R.S. - 1879 Claims and Accounts Public Buildings and Grounds (Chair) State Asylums
14th R.S. - 1874 Asylums Internal Improvements Lighting the State House with Gas Privileges and Elections Public Buildings Rooms in Capitol Building Town and City Corporations

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