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Andrew McCormick
Full Name: Andrew Phelps McCormick
Date of birth: December 18, 1832
Date of death: November 2, 1916
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Terms of Service top
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Dates of Service |
Legislatures |
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Apr 18, 1876 - Apr 12, 1879
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15th
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16th
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(2)
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Republican
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Brazoria / Brazoria
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Brazoria, Galveston, Matagorda
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(1)
Republican, 1/14/1879, p. 1.
Galveston Daily News.
(2)
Robert G. Street, sworn 6/10/1879, succeeded Andrew P. McCormick, resigned 4/12/1879.
Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
(3)
15th Legislature - 4/18/1876, p. 1. All Senators listed in roll call as "Senators elect [who] answered to their names, presented their credentials, and took the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution"; in Drawing of Senatorial Terms 4/27/1876, p. 98, drew "long term" (four years).
Senate Journal.
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Biographical Notes and Resources top
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Biographical Sketches |
Biographical sketch in "State Senators Elect: Personal Sketches Completed - Seventeen Lawyers, Seven Grangers, Two Doctors, One Editor and Four Colored Politicians - the Political Structure of the New Senate of Texas," 3/3/1876, p. 2.
Galveston Daily News.
Biography, pp. 32-34. "He is a Republican in politics...He was elected Senator in the present legislature...having received the open and earnest support of many staunch and influential Democrats."
Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878, 1876.
Biography, p. 245.
Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80, 1879.
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Other Resources |
Portrait.
Texas Jurists, 1836 - 1936, 1936.
MCCORMICK, ANDREW PHELPS (1832-1916). McCormick was "one of only a handful of Republicans to serve in the post-Reconstruction state Senate."
Handbook of Texas Online.
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Photographs |
Photograph.
Andrew McCormick, Texas Jurists Collection
Photograph.
Andrew McCormick, 15th Legislature, State Preservation Board
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Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol |
15th session composite photo of Senate members (Senate Sergeant-at-arms office, west wall. 2E.10A). State Preservation Board.
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