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L.B. Camp Full Name: Little Berry "L.B." Camp Date of birth: May 4, 1806 Date of death: August 24, 1880 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 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)     Pleasanton / Atascosa   Bexar H 56 Nov 3, 1851 - Nov 7, 1853 4th (4)     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) 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 Notes and Resources top Biographical Sketches 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. Photographs Photograph. L.B. Camp, 8th Legislature, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature Committee Informationtop 12th Adjourned - 1871 Comptroller Misconduct   Comptroller's and Treasurer's Offices, Examine   12th R.S. - 1871 Agriculture and Stock Raising   Finance   Public Lands and Land Office (Chair)  12th 1st C.S. - 1870 Agriculture and Stock Raising   Division of the State, Select   Finance   Public Lands and Land Office (Chair)  12th Provisional - 1870 Fourteenth and Fifteenth U.S. Constitutional Amendments, Passage of   8th R.S. - 1859 Joint Indian Affairs   Judicial Districts   Public Debt   Retrenchment and Reform   4th R.S. - 1851 Apportionment

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