Thomas Jefferson Jennings

Full Name: Thomas Jefferson Jennings
Date of birth: October 20, 1801
Date of death: September 23, 1881

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Biographical Notes
Committee Information

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Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
H	21	Nov 2, 1857 - Nov 7, 1859	7th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾		Unknown / Cherokee		Cherokee

(1) Members of the Seventh Legislature, Biographical Notes - Members, April 1937 issue. Southern Historical Research Magazine, 1937.
(2) Democrat. 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).

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House District 21
Nov 2, 1857 - Nov 7, 1859
Legislatures: 7th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾
Home City/County: Unknown / Cherokee
Counties in district: Cherokee

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Biographical Sketches

Biography, pp. 215-216. Death date 9/20/1881. Bench and Bar of Texas, 1885.
Mentioned as supporter of plan to establish a state university in Texas, Vol. II, pp. 443-444: "Mr. Jennings. . .took occasion to argue that the medical department should be located at Galveston or Houston, and that the literary department should not be at Austin, adding: 'I have three sons, and I say it in the Presence of God and my country, that I would let them be uneducated stock-raisers and mule-drivers before, in the effort to become well educated, they should learn the accomplishments of Congress Avenue.' He wanted the literary department fixed on some 'virgin league of land.''" A Comprehensive History of Texas, 1685 to 1897.
Biographical sketch, Hon. Thomas J. Jennings, pp. 569-571. The Encyclopedia of the New West, 1881.
JENNINGS, THOMAS JEFFERSON (1801-1881). Relatives: Thomas Jefferson Jennings, father; Tom R. Jennings, son. Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical sketch, Thomas J. Jennings, pp. 370-371. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas, 1890.
Obituary, Thomas J. Jennings, "Death of a Distinguished Man," 9/30/1881, p. 2. Marshall Messenger.
Biographical sketch, pp. 47-48. Texans Who Wore the Gray, 1907.
Thomas Jefferson Jennings, no Civil War service "due to age and illness." Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide, 2002.

Other Resources

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.

Photographs

Photograph. Thomas J. Jennings, Texas Jurists Collection

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7th R.S. - 1857
Education
Judiciary (Chair)
Message of the Governor on Kansas Affairs
Privileges and Elections
Public Debt
Rules, Select

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