Stephen Heard Darden

Full Name: Stephen Heard Darden
Date of birth: November 18, 1816
Date of death: May 16, 1902

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Biographical Notes
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Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	City/County	Counties in District
S	25	Nov 4, 1861 - Jan 14, 1862	9th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾	Gonzales / Gonzales	Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe
H	62	Nov 5, 1855 - Nov 2, 1857	6th ⁽⁴⁾	Gonzales / Gonzales	Gonzales
H	62	Nov 7, 1853 - Nov 5, 1855	5th	Gonzales / Gonzales	Gonzales

(1) Spencer Ford, sworn 2/2/1863, succeeded Stephen H. Darden, resigned. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
(2) 9th Legislature, Regular Session - Classification of Senators (drawing for terms of office) - drew "the long term" (four years), 11/12/1861, p. 42. Senate Journal.
(3) 9th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators, oath of office administered, 11/4/1861, p. 1. Senate Journal.
(4) Included "[a]mong 1855 legislators that this writer has positively identified as Know Nothings" and on list of "Texas Know Nothing Leaders with a Summary of Biographical Data Taken from the . . . United States Eighth Census, 1860." The party was active at the state level in Texas in 1855 and 1856. "By 1857 the party had virtually disappeared in Texas." "An Analysis of the Texas Know Nothings," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 3, January 1967, pp. 414, 416, 446, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). Census list

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Senate District 25
Nov 4, 1861 - Jan 14, 1862
Legislatures: 9th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾
Home City/County: Gonzales / Gonzales
Counties in district: Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe

House District 62
Nov 5, 1855 - Nov 2, 1857
Legislatures: 6th ⁽⁴⁾
Home City/County: Gonzales / Gonzales
Counties in district: Gonzales

House District 62
Nov 7, 1853 - Nov 5, 1855
Legislatures: 5th
Home City/County: Gonzales / Gonzales
Counties in district: Gonzales

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Resolutions and Journal entries

5th Legislature - Roll of Members, S.H. Darden, native state Mississippi, emigrated from Mississippi in 1846, planter, postoffice Gonzales, Gonzales County. House Journal.
Member roster, 9th Legislature, Regular Session: name, district, resident county, post office, state of nativity, occupation, and age. Senate Journal.

Biographical Sketches

Colonel S.H. Darden, mentioned in description of Alamo monument, Volume I, p. 708. "After the completion of the present capitol building, in 1888, the twenty-first legislature made an appropriation for the erection of an Alamo monument, to be placed in the capitol grounds. It stands at the right of the main entrance, fronting the avenue; the design, which is a combination of the arch and monument, was selected by a commission composed of Colonel S. H. Darden, J. M. Swisher, and H. B. Andrews." A Comprehensive History of Texas, 1685 to 1897.
DARDEN, STEPHEN HEARD (1816-1902). Birth date 11/19/1816. Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical sketch, Stephen H. Darden, Chief Clerk of the Comptroller's Office, pp. 41-42. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature, 1887.
Portrait and biographical sketch, Stephen H. Darden, pp. 72-76. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature, 1889.
Portrait and biographical sketch, Stephen H. Darden, Chief Clerk of Comptroller of Public Accounts, pp. 596-598. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature, 1892.
Biographical sketch, pp. 235-236. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80, 1879.
Biographical sketch, pp. 4, 6. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889, 1999.
Stephen Heard Darden. Birth date 11/18/1816 on headstone. Texas State Cemetery.

Military Service Notes

Stephen Heard Darden. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide, 2002.
Texas Army, Volunteer in Captain D.M. Fulton's Mississippi Company, Texas Revolution. Confederate States Army, Captain, Company A, 4th Texas Infantry, Hood's Texas Brigade; Colonel, 5th Infantry Regiment Texas State Troops. Biographical sketch, pp. 23, 110-111, 210. Birth date 11/19/1816. Texas in the War, 1861-1865, 1965.
Army of Texas, 1836. Confederate States Army, Colonel, 1863. Headstone inscription. Texas State Cemetery.

Photographs

Photograph. Stephen Darden, 21st Legislature, Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature

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9th R.S. - 1861 Agriculture Counties and County Boundaries Finance Judiciary Militia and Military Affairs Roads, Bridges and Ferries Rules and Regulations
6th R.S. - 1855 Civil and Criminal Codes, Governor's Message, Select Constitutional Amendments, Select Enrolled Bills (Chair) Finance Judicial Districts, Select Private Land Claims No. 1 Public Debt
5th R.S. - 1853 Enrolled Bills Judicial Districts Private Land Claims No. 1 State Affairs

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