Andrew Jackson Hamilton
Full Name: Andrew Jackson HamiltonDate of birth: January 28, 1815
Date of death: April 11, 1875
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| Chamber | District | Dates of Service | Legislatures | Party | City/County | Note | Counties in District |
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| S | 25 | Elected but never sworn | 8th (1) (2) (3) | Austin / Travis | Bastrop, Burnet, Travis | ||
| H | 42 | Nov 3, 1851 - Nov 7, 1853 | 4th (4) | Unknown / Travis | Travis |
(1) Hamilton was elected to the Senate in 1861 as the Union candidate, but "he declined to take the required oath of qualification." Bench and Bar of Texas, 1885.
(2) "When he [Hamilton] returned to Texas in the spring of 1861 he won a special election to the state Senate." Handbook of Texas Online.
(3) "Our late Representative in Congress, Hon. A.J. Hamilton, was elected State Senator for the Austin district, last Monday [8/25/1861] . . . Judge Towns [sic], resigned." Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 4/2/1861, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
(4) "By the 1850s he had become a member of the "Opposition Clique" in Texas, a faction of the regular Democratic party that opposed secession, reopening the slave trade, and other Southern extremist demands." Handbook of Texas Online.
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Senate District 25
Elected but never sworn Legislatures: 8th (1) (2) (3) Home City/County: Austin / Travis Counties in district: Bastrop, Burnet, Travis |
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House District 42
Nov 3, 1851 - Nov 7, 1853 Legislatures: 4th (4) Home City/County: Unknown / Travis Counties in district: Travis |
(1) Hamilton was elected to the Senate in 1861 as the Union candidate, but "he declined to take the required oath of qualification." Bench and Bar of Texas, 1885.
(2) "When he [Hamilton] returned to Texas in the spring of 1861 he won a special election to the state Senate." Handbook of Texas Online.
(3) "Our late Representative in Congress, Hon. A.J. Hamilton, was elected State Senator for the Austin district, last Monday [8/25/1861] . . . Judge Towns [sic], resigned." Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 4/2/1861, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
(4) "By the 1850s he had become a member of the "Opposition Clique" in Texas, a faction of the regular Democratic party that opposed secession, reopening the slave trade, and other Southern extremist demands." Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical Information top
Resolutions and Journal entries
- 28th Legislature, 1st C.S., 4/29/1903, pp. 220-226. Mentioned in the presentation address of the oil portrait of Judge A.W. Terrell. House Journal.
Biographical Sketches
- Mentioned, p. 33; Photo and biographical sketch, p. 44. Austin Lawyers: A Legacy of Leadership and Service, 2005.
- Biography, pp. 104-109. Bench and Bar of Texas, 1885.
- HAMILTON, Andrew Jackson (1815-1875). Representative, TX. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress.
- Biographical sketch, Andrew J. Hamilton, pp. 47-51. Governors Who Have Been, and Other Public Men of Texas, 1921.
- HAMILTON, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1875). Handbook of Texas Online.
- Biographical sketch, A.J. Hamilton, pp. 619-620. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas, 1890.
- Biographical sketch and portrait, Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Associate Justice, Texas Supreme Court, 1867-1869. Justices of Texas, 1836-1986 (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2004.
- Andrew Jackson Hamilton, mentioned in "Governors of Texas," Volume 1, p. 204. The New Encyclopedia of Texas, 1926.
- Biographical sketch, A.J. Hamilton, pp. 42-43. Born 1/28/1815 in Madison County, Alabama. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature, 1892.
- Governor Jack Hamilton, born 1/28/1815 in Madison County, Alabama; Travis county's Representative to the Legislature in 1851-1853. "Mr. Bond married Laura, daughter of Hezekiah Hamilton, a brother of ex-Senator Morgan C. Hamilton and Governor Jack Hamilton, both prominent men in Texas." Mentioned in biographical sketch of Edmond C. Bond. Lewis Publishing Company. History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties, 1893, p. 703. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
Military Service Notes
- Biography in LRL collection, Z UA550.8 H18. Colossal Hamilton of Texas: A Biography of Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Militant Unionist and Reconstruction Governor, 1968.
- Brigadier General of volunteers, appointed military governor of Texas, November 1862. Handbook of Texas Online.
- "In 1862 . . . was immediately appointed brigadier-general of Texas troops in the Union service." Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature, 1892.
- Brigadier General USV; Military Governor of Texas. Andrew Jackson Hamilton. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide, 2002.
- Prominent Texas Unionist leader, appointed military governor of Texas by Abraham Lincoln, November 1862. Biographical sketch and portrait, pp. 140, Plate No. 60. Texas in the War, 1861-1865, 1965.
Other Resources
- Included in list of Unionists who fled Texas to avoid "a requirement that public officials take a loyalty oath to the Confederacy . . ." Baggett, James Alex, "Origins of Early Texas Republican Party Leadership," The Journal of Southern History, Vol.40(3), August 1974, p. 448. Journal of Southern History.
- Mentioned in list of "Future Republicans . . . at one time or another championed Know-Nothingism." Baggett, James Alex, "Origins of Early Texas Republican Party Leadership," The Journal of Southern History, Vol.40(3), August 1974, p. 443. Journal of Southern History.
- Governor of Texas 1865-1866. Legislative Reference Library, Governors of Texas, 1846-present.
- Obituary, Semmes Wilder Parish, Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, North Carolina), 10/1/1943, p. 8. Native of Calvert, Texas, oil drilling operator, Captain in Spanish-American War. "Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Katherine H. Parish, granddaughter of the late Governor Andrew Jackson Hamilton, of Texas." Newspapers.com.
- Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1868. Included in "List of Delegates to the Reconstruction Convention, As Announced in Special order No. 213, Dated Headquarters Fifth Military District, New Orleans, LA., April 13th, 1868." Journal of the Reconstruction Convention, Which Met at Austin, Texas, June 1, A.D., 1868 (1870), pp 533-534. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.
Photographs
- Photograph. Andrew J. Hamilton, Texas Jurists Collection
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4th R.S. - 1851
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