L.B. Camp
Full Name: Little Berry "L.B." CampDate of birth: May 4, 1806
Date of death: August 24, 1880
Terms of Service top
| Chamber | District | Dates of Service | Legislatures | Party | City/County | Note | Counties in District |
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| H | 24 | Feb 9, 1870 - Jan 14, 1873 | 12th (1) (2) | Radical Republican | St. Mary's of Aransas / Refugio | Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria | |
| H | 70 | Nov 7, 1859 - Nov 4, 1861 | 8th (3) (4) | Pleasanton / Atascosa | Bexar | ||
| H | 56 | Nov 3, 1851 - Nov 7, 1853 | 4th (5) | Gilead / Upshur | Harrison, Upshur |
(1) 12th Legislature, Provisional Session - Qualified and took the oath of office on 2/9/1870. House Journal.
(2) Party affiliation, Radical. Texas Almanac for . . . and Emigrant's Guide to Texas.
(3) Camp served as a delegate to the Secession Convention, but he, along with James Webb Throckmorton, was one of only eight delegates to vote against secession. Little Berry Camp remained a Unionist throughout the Civil War. Handbook of Texas Online.
(4) [In late 1860 and early 1861] legislators Micajah Lewis Armstrong, John L. Haynes, and Robert H. Taylor mailed circulars to their constituencies defending their unpopular Unionist positions. They joined other Unionist legislators and convention delegates on February 6 in issuing an address entreating Texans to reject secession." "Origins of Early Texas Republican Party Leadership," Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 447. Journal of Southern History.
(5) Election of 1851 - Democratic candidates William T. Scott, Dr. Joseph Taylor, and L.D. Camp of Upshur County (possibly L.B. Camp), pp. 162, 164. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880, 1983.
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House District 24
Feb 9, 1870 - Jan 14, 1873 Legislatures: 12th (1) (2) Party: Radical Republican Home City/County: St. Mary's of Aransas / Refugio Counties in district: Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria |
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House District 70
Nov 7, 1859 - Nov 4, 1861 Legislatures: 8th (3) (4) Home City/County: Pleasanton / Atascosa Counties in district: Bexar |
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House District 56
Nov 3, 1851 - Nov 7, 1853 Legislatures: 4th (5) Home City/County: Gilead / Upshur Counties in district: Harrison, Upshur |
(1) 12th Legislature, Provisional Session - Qualified and took the oath of office on 2/9/1870. House Journal.
(2) Party affiliation, Radical. Texas Almanac for . . . and Emigrant's Guide to Texas.
(3) Camp served as a delegate to the Secession Convention, but he, along with James Webb Throckmorton, was one of only eight delegates to vote against secession. Little Berry Camp remained a Unionist throughout the Civil War. Handbook of Texas Online.
(4) [In late 1860 and early 1861] legislators Micajah Lewis Armstrong, John L. Haynes, and Robert H. Taylor mailed circulars to their constituencies defending their unpopular Unionist positions. They joined other Unionist legislators and convention delegates on February 6 in issuing an address entreating Texans to reject secession." "Origins of Early Texas Republican Party Leadership," Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 447. Journal of Southern History.
(5) Election of 1851 - Democratic candidates William T. Scott, Dr. Joseph Taylor, and L.D. Camp of Upshur County (possibly L.B. Camp), pp. 162, 164. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880, 1983.
Biographical Information top
Biographical Sketches
- Biographical sketch and portrait, Colonel Lafayette "Little" Berry Camp, p. 37. Daughters of the Republic of Texas Patriot Ancestor Album, 1995.
- CAMP, LITTLE BERRY [L.B.] (1806-1880). Handbook of Texas Online.
- Biographical sketch and portrait. Also served as Representative in Georgia Legislature. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature, 1860.
Other Resources
- Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1866. Journal of the Texas State Convention: Assembled at Austin, Feb. 7, 1866. Adjourned April 2, 1866, pp. 3-5. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.
Photographs
- Photograph. L.B. Camp, 8th Legislature, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature
Committee Information top
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12th Adjourned - 1871
Comptroller Misconduct Comptroller's and Treasurer's Offices, Examine | ||
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12th R.S. - 1871
Agriculture and Stock Raising Finance Public Lands and Land Office (Chair) | ||
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12th 1st C.S. - 1870
Agriculture and Stock Raising Division of the State, Select Finance Public Lands and Land Office (Chair) | ||
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12th Provisional - 1870
Fourteenth and Fifteenth U.S. Constitutional Amendments, Passage of | ||
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8th R.S. - 1859
Joint Indian Affairs Judicial Districts Public Debt Retrenchment and Reform | ||
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4th R.S. - 1851
Apportionment |
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