Frederick Forney Foscue

Full Name: Frederick Forney Foscue
Date of birth: September 11, 1819
Date of death: March 3, 1906

Terms of Service
Biographical Notes
Committee Information

Terms of Service top

Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	City/County	Counties in District
S	1	Aug 6, 1866 - Feb 7, 1870	11th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾	Liberty / Liberty	Chambers, Galveston, Jefferson, Liberty
H	1	Nov 2, 1863 - Aug 6, 1866	10th	Grand Cane / Liberty	Chambers, Jefferson, Liberty, Orange
H	21	Nov 7, 1859 - Nov 4, 1861	8th	Larissa / Cherokee	Cherokee

(1) 11th Legislature - All 33 Senate districts listed in roll call presenting credentials, oath of office administered, 8/6/1866, pp. 2, 4-5. Senate Journal.
(2) Constitution of 1866, Article III, §§ 29, 30, retained the apportionment of 1860 for Senatorial districts. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.
(3) Entire Senate went up for reelection - Constitution of 1869, Article III, § 39. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.

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Senate District 1
Aug 6, 1866 - Feb 7, 1870
Legislatures: 11th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾
Home City/County: Liberty / Liberty
Counties in district: Chambers, Galveston, Jefferson, Liberty

House District 1
Nov 2, 1863 - Aug 6, 1866
Legislatures: 10th
Home City/County: Grand Cane / Liberty
Counties in district: Chambers, Jefferson, Liberty, Orange

House District 21
Nov 7, 1859 - Nov 4, 1861
Legislatures: 8th
Home City/County: Larissa / Cherokee
Counties in district: Cherokee

Biographical Information top

Selected newspaper articles

Resolutions and Journal entries

Member roster, 11th Legislature, Regular Session: F.F. Foscue, Liberty, Liberty County, nativity Alabama, farmer, age 40 in 1866 (born circa 1826). Senate Journal.

Biographical Sketches

FOSCUE, FREDERICK FORNEY (1819-1906). Death date 3/9/1906. Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical sketch and portrait. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature, 1860.
Biographical sketch, p. 63, also served in Alabama Legislature; Chairman, Senate Committee on Education and education bills introduced, pp. 75-76. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889, 1999.
Biographical sketch, history of Pantego, Texas. Town of Pantego, TX.

Other Resources

Colonel Frederick Forney Foscue, born 9/11/1819, death date 3/3/1906, burial in Parkdale Cemetery, Arlington, Tarrant County. Includes portrait, biographical sketch. Find a Grave.

Photographs

Photograph. F.F. Foscue, 11th Legislature, By the Austin Photograph Co., Prints and Photographs Collection, [identifier number: di_03923, di_03924], The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Photograph. F.F. Foscue, 8th Legislature, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

11th session composite photo of Senate members (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History). By the Austin Photograph Co., Prints and Photographs Collection, [identifier number: di_03923, di_03924], The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

Committee Information top

11th R.S. - 1866 Education (Chair) Finance General Land Office, Select Internal Improvements Jefferson Davis, Petition to Release, Select Judicial Districts, Select Judiciary Misrepresentation of Senator Stell in Houston Telegraph Relating to Deceased Soldiers Public Lands
10th R.S. - 1863 Confederate Relations Finance Internal Improvements (Chair)
8th R.S. - 1859 Indian Difficulties on Frontier Internal Improvement (Chair) Reduction of Expenditures of the State Government Retrenchment and Reform State Affairs

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