Terms of Service top

Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
H	64	Jan 9, 1883 - Jan 13, 1885	18th (1) (2)	Democrat	Columbia / Brazoria		Brazoria, Galveston

(1) Present West Columbia, TX, founded as Columbia in 1826. Handbook of Texas Online.
(2) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas, 1883.

Biographical Notes and Resources top

Biographical Sketches

• Biographical sketch, Volume II, pp. 623-624. Birth date 8/6/1859. Historical Review of South-east Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men of Its Commerce, Industry and Civic Affairs, 1910.
• Obituary, Frederick Joseph Duff, "Duff Funeral Service Held at Beaumont," 8/21/1932, sec. 2, p. 5. "At one time he was the youngest member of the state legislature." Houston Chronicle.
• Memorial, October 1935, p. 26. Frederick Joseph Duff, born in 1859. Memorial states, incorrectly, that at the time, Duff was the youngest person elected to legislature. Texas Law Review Proceedings of the . . . Annual Meeting of the Texas Bar Association.
• Biographical sketch lists name S.J. Duff; roster lists name F.J. Duff. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83, 1883.
• Biographical sketch, S.J. Duff, p. 264. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83, 1883.

Other Resources

• Relatives: Robert Crews Duff - brother, Frederick Joseph Duff - brother. Culpepper Connections' Family Tree.
• Fredrick Joseph Duff, birth date 8/6/1859 in West Columbia, death date 8/19/1932 in Beaumont, Jefferson County, lawyer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976.
• Frederick Joseph Duff, birth date 8/6/1859, death date 8/19/1932, burial in Columbia Cemetery, West Columbia, Brazoria County. Find a Grave.

Photographs

• Photograph. F.J. Duff, 18th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

• 18th session composite photo of House members (House chamber vestibule, east wall. 2W.V1). State Preservation Board.

Committee Information top

18th R.S. - 1883 Comptroller's and Treasurer's Office, Examine   Engrossed Bills   Public Roads, Bridges and Ferries