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Stephen Heard Darden
Full Name: Stephen Heard Darden
Date of birth: November 18, 1816
Date of death: May 16, 1902
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Terms of Service top
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25
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Nov 4, 1861 - Jan 14, 1862
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9th
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Gonzales / Gonzales
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Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe
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62
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Nov 5, 1855 - Nov 2, 1857
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6th
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Gonzales / Gonzales
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Gonzales
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62
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Nov 7, 1853 - Nov 5, 1855
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5th
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Gonzales / Gonzales
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Gonzales
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(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.
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9th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators, oath of office administered, 11/4/1861, p. 1.
Senate Journal.
(4)
Included 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," Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 414-423.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
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Included "[a]mong 1855 legislators that this writer has positively identified as Know Nothings." The party was active in Texas at the state level between 1855 and 1857. "An Analysis of the Texas Know Nothings," Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 414, 416-417.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
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Biographical Notes and Resources top
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Member roster, 9th Legislature, Regular Session: name, district, resident county, post office, state of nativity, occupation, and age.
Senate Journal.
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| Biographical Sketches |
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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.
Darden, Stephen Heard. Birth date 11/18/1816 on headstone.
Texas State Cemetery.
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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.
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Photograph.
Stephen Darden, 21st Legislature, Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature
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