Fletcher Summerfield Stockdale

Full Name: Fletcher Summerfield Stockdale
Date of birth: 1825
Date of death: February 4, 1890

Terms of Service
Biographical Notes
Committee Information

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Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
S	26	Nov 7, 1857 - Nov 4, 1861	7th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ 8th ⁽¹⁾		Indianola / Calhoun		Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Lavaca, Victoria

(1) 8th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators (holdover senators), 11/7/1859, p. 4. Senate Journal.
(2) Members of the Seventh Legislature, Biographical Notes - Members, April 1937 issue. Southern Historical Research Magazine, 1937.
(3) 7th Legislature - "Members of Legislature elect," The Southern Intelligencer (Austin, Texas), 8/12/1857, p. 3, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
(4) Listed in "New Senators elected: Democrats." Roster of 7th Legislature, "Texas Legislature Complete for 1857-8," Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 9/8/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
(5) 7th Legislature - Oath of office, 11/7/1857, p. 50. Senate Journal.

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Senate District 26
Nov 7, 1857 - Nov 4, 1861
Legislatures: 7th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ 8th ⁽¹⁾
Home City/County: Indianola / Calhoun
Counties in district: Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Lavaca, Victoria

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Selected newspaper articles

Resolutions and Journal entries

Senate roster shows Stockdale was 32 in the 7th Legislature (1857-1858). Senate Journal.

Biographical Sketches

STOCKDALE, FLETCHER SUMMERFIELD (ca. 1823-1890). Born 1823 or 1825. Death date 2/4/1890. Handbook of Texas Online.
9th Lieutenant Governor: Fletcher S. Stockdale. Portrait and biographical sketch. Born 1823 or 1825. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016, 2016.
Biographical sketch and portrait, pp. 139-140, Plate No. 58. Texas in the War, 1861-1865, 1965.

Other Resources

Fletcher Stockdale (1825-1890), color portrait, burial in Maple Grove Cemetery, Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky. Find a Grave.
"In Washington, D.C., on July 11, 1877, Stockdale married Elizabeth Schleicher, the seventeen-year-old daughter of his friend and Texas political colleague, Gustav Schleicher and Elizabeth Tinsley Howard Schleicher." Relatives: Gustav Schleicher, father-in-law; Fletcher S. Stockdale, son-in-law. Handbook of Texas Online.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1875. Included in Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Texas: Begun and Held at the City of Austin Texas. Constitutional Convention (1875). Galveston : Printed for the Convention at the "News" Office, 1875, pp. 3-4. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.
Delegate to Secession Convention of Texas, 1861. Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas 1861. Edited from the original in the department of state by Ernest William Winkler, State Librarian. Texas Library and Historical Commission, the State Library. Austin: Austin Print. Co., 1912, pp. 20-22. Originally published serially in newspapers. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.
Historical marker, Town Named for Governor F.S. Stockdale, Stockdale, Wilson County. Death date 2/4/1890. Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission).

Photographs

Photograph. Fletcher Stockdale, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
Photograph. Fletcher Stockdale, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Fletcher Stockdale, Constitutional Convention of 1875 Composite Photo. From the collection of the Texas State Library and Archives Commisison.

Committee Information top

8th R.S. - 1859 Convention to Frame a New State Constitution Enrolled Bills (Chair) Finance Internal Improvements Judiciary Revenue Laws State Affairs Ways and Means for the Protection of the Frontier, Select
7th R.S. - 1857 Depredations Upon Citizens of Mexican Origin Transporting Merchandise from Lavaca to San Antonio Enrolled Bills Internal Improvements Judiciary Land or Money Claims Recommended by Court of Claims Message of the Governor on Kansas Affairs State Affairs

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