Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Thomas Beck

Full Name: Thomas Beck
Birth date: 1819
Death date: 1894

Terms of Service

House, 17th ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ Legislature
1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
Republican
House, 16th ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ Legislature
1/14/1879 - 1/11/1881
Republican
House, 14th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
1/13/1874 - 4/18/1876
Republican

(1) Republican. Directory of the Members and Officers of the Fourteenth Legislature of the State of Texas . . . 1874.
(2) Republican, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Republican, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(4) Navasota, Grimes County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(5) Courtney, Grimes County, Republican. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.
(6) Republican. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

79th Legislature, R.S., HR 589, paying tribute to African American legislators and constitutional convention delegates of 1868-1900. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
81st Legislature, R.S., HCR 81, paying tribute to African American legislators and constitutional convention delegates. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
85th Legislature, R.S., HR 452, celebrating Black History Month and honoring the leadership and vision of African American lawmakers. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
88th Legislature, R.S., SCR 13, Recognizing the Texas Black Reconstruction Legislators Recognition Act. SB 667, Texas Black Reconstruction Legislators Recognition Act. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary . SB 667 SCR 13
88th Legislature, R.S., SCR 13, Recognizing the Texas Black Reconstruction Legislators Recognition Act. SB 667, Texas Black Reconstruction Legislators Recognition Act. Resolutions - Legislative Policy . SB 667 SCR 13

Photographs

Photograph. Thomas Beck, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Thomas Beck, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Thomas Thos. Beck, born 1819 in Kentucky, died 1894 in Navasota, Grimes County, Texas. Voter registration 8/21/1867 in Grimes County. The Bradford Family Tree - Belcher - Dixie - Caddo - LA; Texas, U.S. Voter Registration Lists. Ancestry.com .
Listed in "Men who have represented Grimes County in the House of Representatives/State Senate, 1846-1931," pp. 205-209. Includes Date, Legislatures, District, and Source of Data. Early History of Grimes County 1930.
Portrait and biographical sketch. Forever Free: Nineteenth Century African-American Legislators and Constitutional Convention Delegates of Texas 2002.
Mentioned pp. 147-154. From Slave to Statesman 1993.
BECK, THOMAS (ca.1819-unknown). Handbook of Texas Online .
Mentioned in Minority Civil Rights and the Texas Legislature 2018.
Mentioned in Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants 1970.
Biographical sketch, Thomas Beck. Born 1819, died 1894. Notable Kentucky African Americans Database .
Biographical sketch, p. 260. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.
Biographical sketch, pp. 43-44. Birth year 1819, Appendix D. Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares: Black Leadership in Texas, 1868-1898 2016.