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Constantine Buckley Kilgore Full Name: Constantine Buckley "Buck" Kilgore Date of birth: February 20, 1835 Date of death: September 23, 1897 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District S 7 Jan 13, 1885 - Oct 23, 1885 19th (1) (2) (3) (4)   Democrat Wills Point / Van Zandt Senate President Pro Tempore (19th)   Anderson, Cherokee, Henderson, Van Zandt (1) 19th Legislature - Senate President Pro Tempore, elected 3/31/1885, Regular Session. Senate Journal. (2) Democrat, p. 163. Burke's Texas Almanac and Immigrants' Handbook for 1885, 1885. (3) Constantine Kilgore resigned 10/23/1885. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005. (4) 19th Legislature - Roll call of new members, oath of office administered, 1/13/1885, p. 1. Senate Journal.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Biographical Sketches KILGORE, Constantine Buckley (1835-1897). Representative, TX, "elected to the State senate in 1884 for a term of four years . . . resigned from the State senate in 1886, having been elected to Congress." Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress 1774-Present. Biographical sketch, pp. 22-27. Delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1875. Constitutional Convention, a New Beginning: Two Constitutions, 1875 and 1974, 1974. KILGORE, CONSTANTINE BUCKLEY (1835-1897). Handbook of Texas Online. Biographical sketch, C.B. Kilgore, p. 85. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature, 1885. Biographical sketch, C.B. Kilgore, pp. 52-53. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature, 1887. Biographical sketch, C.B. Kilgore, pp. 131-133. "Having received the nomination for Congress, by the Democratic convention of September, 1886, he resigned his place in the State Senate, leaving two years of his term unexpired." Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature, 1889. Portrait and biographical sketch, C.B. Kilgore, Representative, Third Congressional District, pp. 165-173. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature, 1892. Biographical sketch, "Kilgore: The Town & The Name." Gregg County, TXGenWeb Project. Military Service Notes Confederate States Army, Captain, Company G, 10th Confederate Cavalry; Adjutant General of his brigade. Handbook of Texas Online. Biographical sketch, pp. 159-160. Texans Who Wore the Gray, 1907. Constantine Buckley Kilgore, birth date 2/20/1835, death date 9/20/1897. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide, 2002. Biographical sketch, pp. 4-5, 158-159. Texas in the War, 1861-1865, 1965. Other Resources C.B. Kilgore, birth date 2/20/1835, death date 9/23/1897, portrait, burial in White Rose Cemetery, Wills Point, Van Zandt County. Find a Grave. KILGORE, TEXAS (Gregg County) named for Constantine Buckley Kilgore. Handbook of Texas Online. Article, "Early Politico Bucked House, Won by Nose," by Van Craddock, 7/26/2003. Longview News-Journal. Biographical information. Political Graveyard: a Database of Historic Cemeteries. Photographs Photograph. C.B. Kilgore, 19th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. C.B. Kilgore, Constitutional Convention of 1875 Composite Photo. From the collection of the Texas State Library and Archives Commisison. Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 19th session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber vestibule, east wall. 2E.V1). State Preservation Board. Committee Informationtop 19th R.S. - 1885 Constitutional Amendments (Chair)  Judiciary No. 1   Memorial Services for the Late J.C. Buchanan   Penitentiaries   Public Lands   Retrenchment and Reform   State Affairs   Treasurer's and Comptroller's Offices

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