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Matthew F. Locke
Full Name: Matthew F. Locke
Date of birth: July 10, 1824
Date of death: June 4, 1911
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Terms of Service top
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Legislatures |
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16
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Nov 2, 1857 - Nov 7, 1859
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7th
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Lafayette / Upshur
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Speaker 1/18/1858 - 11/7/1859.
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Upshur
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16
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Nov 5, 1855 - Nov 2, 1857
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6th
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Lafayette / Upshur
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Upshur
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Locke succeeded William S. Taylor as speaker; Taylor resigned both as speaker and member 1/18/1858, no successor.
Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
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Democrat. 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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Biographical Notes and Resources top
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| Biographical Sketches |
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LOCKE, MATTHEW F. (1824-1911). Birth date 7/20/1824, death date 6/4/1911.
Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical sketch, Col. Mat F. Locke, p. 110. Elected to Texas Senate in 1859 but resigned when Civil War began.
A History of Upshur County, Texas, 1966.
13th Speaker of the House of Representatives: Matthew Fielding Locke. Portrait and biographical sketch. Birth date 7/20/1824, death date 6/4/1911. " . . . in 1850 he moved to Texas, settling in Upshur County. There, in the vicinity of Lafayette, he established a plantation."
Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016, 2016.
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Matthew Francis Locke in the U.S., Confederate Officers Card Index, 1861-1865. Matthew Fielding Locke in the U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865.
Ancestry.com.
Confederate States Army, Colonel, F&S, 10th Texas Cavalry. Military grave marker, Matthew F. Locke, birth date 7/10/1824, death date 6/4/1911, biographical sketch, portrait, burial in Concordia Cemetery, El Paso.
Find a Grave.
Matthew F. Locke, birth date 7/10/1824, death date 6/4/1911, burial in Concordia Cemetery, El Paso. Upshur County farmer and Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.
Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide, 2002.
Colonel, 10th Texas Cavalry Regiment, p. 25, and portrait, Plate No. 46.
Texas in the War, 1861-1865, 1965.
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M.F. Locke, death date 6/4/1911 in El Paso, El Paso County, at age 86 years.
FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976.
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Photograph.
Matthew Fielding Locke, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
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