F.P. Powell

Francis Pinckney Powell

Full Name: Francis Pinckney "Frank" Powell
Date of birth: July 21, 1853
Date of death: September 21, 1914

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Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 70 Jan 10, 1899 - Jan 8, 1901 26th   Democrat Waxahachie / Ellis   Ellis, Johnson

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House District 70
Jan 10, 1899 - Jan 8, 1901
Legislatures: 26th  
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Waxahachie / Ellis
Counties in district: Ellis, Johnson

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Other Resources

  • Judge F.P. Powell, death date 9/21/1914, moved from Waxahachie to Amarillo in 1904, then to Plainview. Obituary, "F.P. Powell Passes at Plainview Home: Death Was Unexpected—Was Formerly Attorney and Prominent Citizen of Amarillo," 9/23/1914, p. 8. Amarillo Daily News.
  • Census of 1900 - F.P. Powell, Waxahachie, Ellis County, age 47, born July 1853 in Texas, lawyer, spouse Myrtle Powell, son Charles D., and daughter Marguerite.
    Census of 1910 - Francis O. [P.] Powell, Amarillo, Potter County, age 56, born circa 1854 in Texas, lawyer, spouse Myrtle, son Dunn, daughters Margaret, Elizabeth, and Florence. FamilySearch. 1900
  • Francis Pinckney Powell, birth date 7/21/1853 in Madison County, Texas; death date 9/21/1914 in Plainview, Hale County; lawyer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976.
  • F.P. Powell, birth date 7/21/1853, death date 9/21/1914, spouse Myrtle Middleton Powell ("her husband, Frank Powell, died in 1914"), burial in Plainview Cemetery, Plainview, Hale County. Find a Grave.
  • 26th Legislature (1899) - F.P. Powell, postoffice Waxahachie, nativity Texas, age 45 (born circa 1854), lawyer, Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual.

Photographs

  • Photograph. F.P. Powell, 26th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

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26th R.S. - 1899
Constitutional Amendments (Chair) 
Internal Improvements  
Judicial Districts  
Judiciary No. 1  
Rules  

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