Louis Trezevant Wigfall
Full Name: Louis Trezevant Wigfall
Date of birth: April 21, 1816
Date of death: February 18, 1874
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Terms of Service top
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8
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Nov 5, 1857 - Dec 7, 1859
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7th
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8th
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Marshall / Harrison
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Harrison
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11
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Nov 18, 1850 - Nov 3, 1851
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3rd
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Marshall / Harrison
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Harrison
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E.A. Blanch, sworn 1/14/1860, succeeded Louis T. Wigfall, resignation announced 12/7/1859.
Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
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8th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators (holdover senators), 11/7/1859, p. 4.
Senate Journal.
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Resignation announced, 12/7/1859, p. 107.
Senate Journal.
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Listed in "New Senators elected: Democrats." 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).
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7th Legislature - Oath of office, 11/5/1857, p. 46.
Senate Journal.
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Election of L.T. Wigfall for State Senator and Eli T. Craig, William F. Baldwin, and lawyer Pendleton Murrah, for House of Representatives in election of August, 1857 - "the state legislative races were decided in favor of the Democrats . . .," p. 169.
A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880, 1983.
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Louis T. Wigfall, sworn 11/18/1850, succeeded Jeremiah Clough, resigned after first 1st Called Session.
Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
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Description of Democratic-Whig conflict in Harrison County, subsequent resignations of Representative J.M. Clough (September 1850) and Senator James F. Taylor, re-election of Taylor and election of L.T. Wigfall in November 1850, pp. 160-162.
A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880, 1983.
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Biographical Notes and Resources top
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WIGFALL, Louis Trezevant (1816-1874). Senator, TX.
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress 1774-Present.
WIGFALL, LOUIS TREZEVANT (1816-1874).
Handbook of Texas Online.
Railroad promoter, pp. 89-93; biographical sketch, pp. 98-99; political career, pp. 151-153.
A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880, 1983.
Portrait and biographical sketch. "He killed Thomas Bird in an affray preceding a duel with James P. Carroll in which neither principal was hurt."
The Texas Senator, 1978.
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Confederate States Army, Colonel, 1st Texas Infantry; Brigadier General in Provisional Army, Wigfall "commanded the Texas Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia (Hood's Texas Brigade) until February 1862, when he resigned to take a seat in the Confederate Congress."
Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical sketch, Lewis T. Wigfall, pp. 92-93.
Texans Who Wore the Gray, 1907.
Louis Trezevant Wigfall.
Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide, 2002.
Biographical sketch and portrait, pp. 18, 97, Plate No. 37.
Texas in the War, 1861-1865, 1965.
Mentioned in several letters, including William Henry Lewis' letter of 11/2/1861 describing General Wigfall's "first speech before the 5th Texas [Infantry] and his influence within the Confederate government," pp. 23-25; biographical sketch, footnote 37.
Touched by Fire: Letters From Company D 5th Texas Infantry Hood's Brigade Army of Northern Virginia 1862-1865, 2000.
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Mentioned in discussion of Harrison County religious life and denominations, pp. 102-103.
A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880, 1983.
Ledbetter, Billy D. "The Election of Louis T. Wigfall to the United States Senate, 1859: a Reevaluation," Vol. 77, No. 2, October 1973, pp. 241-254.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
Secessionist letters sent to Texas Senator Louis T. Wigfall in 1863, "Sam Houston returns? Two letters from Texas secessionists in 1863," April 2014, pp. 404-409.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
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