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Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Full Name: Joseph Chappell Hutcheson, Sr. Date of birth: May 18, 1842 Date of death: May 25, 1924 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 33 Jan 11, 1881 - Jan 9, 1883 17th (1) (2)   Democrat Houston / Harris   Harris (1) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News. (2) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas, 1881.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Resolutions and Journal entries 28th Legislature, 1st C.S., 4/29/1903, pp. 220-226. Mentioned in the presentation address of the oil portrait of Judge A.W. Terrell. House Journal. Biographical Sketches HUTCHESON, Joseph Chappell (1842-1924). Representative, TX. Death date 5/25/1924. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress 1774-Present. Biographical sketch, Guide to the Hutcheson and Allied Families Papers, 1836-1997. Hutcheson served in 1890 as chairman of the State Democratic Convention. Fondren Library, Rice University. Mentioned in biographical sketch of Herbert Farrar Hutcheson, Makers of America: Biographies of Leading Men of Thought and Action, pp. 443-444. Google Books. HUTCHESON, JOSEPH CHAPPELL (1842-1924). Handbook of Texas Online. Biographical sketch, Americans of Gentle Birth and their Ancestors. HeritageQuest Online. Biographical sketch, William Palmer Hutcheson, son of Joseph Chappell Hutcheson (death date 5/17/1924). Volume I. Texas Under Many Flags, 1930. Military Service Notes Confederate States Army, Captain, Company E, 14th Virginia Infantry Regiment, from 8/8/1864; 2nd Lieutenant, Company E, 14th Virginia Infantry Regiment, from 11/18/1864; Private, Company C, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment, 6/20/1861. Postwar Houston lawyer, 1874; state legislator; chairman, Texas Democratic Convention, 1890; U.S. Congressman. Joseph Chappell Hutcheson, U.S., Confederate Officers Card Index, 1861-1865; U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865. Ancestry.com. Biographical sketch, pp. 158-159. Texans Who Wore the Gray, 1907. Joseph Chappel Hutcheson. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide, 2002. Biographical sketch, pp. 61, 160. Texas in the War, 1861-1865, 1965. Other Resources Joseph Chappell Hutcheson, Captain, C.S.A. (1842-1924), birth date 5/18/1842, death date 5/26/1924, portrait, burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston. Find a Grave. Mentioned in biographical sketch of Herbert Farrar Hutcheson, Makers of America: Biographies of Leading Men of Thought and Action, p. 443. Google Books. Hutcheson, Joseph Chappell (1842-1924) of Houston, Harris County, Tex. Born in Virginia, 1842. Democrat. Member of Texas state legislature; U.S. Representative from Texas 1st District, 1893-97. Died in 1924. Interment at Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Tex. Political Graveyard: a Database of Historic Cemeteries. Photographs Photograph. J.C. Hutcheson, 17th Legislature, Texas State Library and Archives Commission Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 17th session composite photo of House members (Texas State Library and Archives Commission). Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Committee Informationtop 17th R.S. - 1881 Congressional Districts   Congressional Districts, Apportionment   Constitutional Amendments (Chair)  Educational Affairs   Judiciary No. 1   School Claims

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