Alexander Charles Brietz

Full Name: Alexander Charles Brietz
Date of birth: May 29, 1839
Date of death: March 19, 1906

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Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 50 Jan 13, 1891 - Jan 10, 1893 22nd (1)   Democrat Bryan / Brazos   Brazos

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives.

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House District 50
Jan 13, 1891 - Jan 10, 1893
Legislatures: 22nd (1)  
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Bryan / Brazos
Counties in district: Brazos

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives.

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Biographical Sketches

Military Service Notes

  • Confederate States Army, Sergeant, 4th Texas Infantry, enlisted 7/19/1861 at Sanderson, Texas, born in North Carolina. Alexander Charles Brietz, death date 3/19/1906 in Brazos County, widow Mrs. Georgie S. Brietz, marriage date 5/10/1880 in Brazos County. Pension File No. 35090, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com.
  • Confederate Army volunteer and soldier in 4th Texas Infantry, Hood's Texas Brigade. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature, 1892.

Other Resources

  • A.C. Brietz, U.C.V. (United Confederate Veterans), birth date 5/29/1839, death date 3/19/1906, burial in Bryan City Cemetery, Bryan, Brazos County, with wife G.S. Brietz. Find a Grave.
  • Obituary, "Judge A.C. Brietz: Death at Bryan of a Pioneer, Former Member of the Legislature, and Confederate Veteran," 3/20/1906, p. 7. Dateline 3/19, "Judge Alexander C. Brietz died at his home in this city last night at 12:10 o'clock in his sixty-seventh year." Galveston Daily News.

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22nd R.S. - 1891
Federal Relations  
International and Great Northern Railroad, Investigate the Receivership  
Penitentiaries  
Public Lands and Land Office  
Reformatory and House of Correction at Gatesville  
Representation and Apportionment on Senatorial and Representative Districts  
Roads, Bridges and Ferries  

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