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Andrew McCormick Full Name: Andrew Phelps McCormick Date of birth: December 18, 1832 Date of death: November 2, 1916 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District S 19 Apr 18, 1876 - Apr 12, 1879 16th (1) (2)   15th (3)   Republican Brazoria / Brazoria   Brazoria, Galveston, Matagorda (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.   Biographical Notes and Resources top 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. 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. Photographs Photograph. Andrew McCormick, Texas Jurists Collection Photograph. Andrew McCormick, 15th Legislature, State Preservation Board 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. Committee Informationtop 16th R.S. - 1879 Agricultural and Mechanical College, Consider Report of the Joint Committee Appointed to Visit   Agricultural and Mechanical College, Visit   Commerce and Manufactures   Constitutional Amendments   Finance   General Land Office   Judiciary No. 1   New Judiciary Article to the Constitution   Public Debt   Revision of Code   Revision of Rules (Chair)  Stock and Stock Raising   15th R.S. - 1876 Commerce and Manufactures   Constitutional Amendments   Contingent Expenses   Counties and County Boundaries   Enrolled Bills   Internal Improvements   Judiciary No. 2   Private Land Claims   Treasurer's and Comptroller's Department

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