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Robert Turner Flewellen
Full Name: Robert Turner Flewellen
Date of birth: October 2, 1821
Date of death: January 5, 1899
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Terms of Service top
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Dates of Service |
Legislatures |
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Counties in District |
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33
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Jan 14, 1879 - Jan 11, 1881
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16th
(1)
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Democrat
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Houston / Harris
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Harris
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52
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Nov 4, 1861 - Nov 2, 1863
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9th
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Washington / Washington
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Fayette, Washington
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H
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49
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Nov 7, 1859 - Nov 4, 1861
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8th
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Washington / Washington
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Washington
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(1)
Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1.
Galveston Daily News.
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Biographical Notes and Resources top
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| Resolutions and Journal entries |
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Portrait, 9th Legislature, 1st Called Session.
House Journal.
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| Biographical Sketches |
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FLEWELLEN, ROBERT TURNER (1821-1899).
Handbook of Texas Online.
Obituary, Dr. Robert F. Flewellen, The Daily Examiner (Navasota, Texas), 1/6/1899, p. 4, crediting Navasota Public Library. Birth date 10/2/1821 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; death date 1/5/1899 in Houston. "In 1859 he was elected to the house of representatives and again in 1861 from the district of Washington and Fayette counties . . . In 1875 he removed to Houston and was elected to represent Harris county in the legislature in 1878. He secured the passage by the legislature of the first bill for the charter of a medical college in Texas."
Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
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Robt. T. Flewellen, birth date 10/2/1821 in Monroe County, Georgia (on grave marker), death date 1/5/1899 in Houston, Texas, burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, with wife Eugenia A. Flewellen.
Find a Grave.
Portrait.
Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature, 1860.
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Photograph.
Robert Flewellen, 8th Legislature, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature
Photograph.
Robert Flewellen. Photo courtesy of the Texas Medical Association., Donated Material
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