Enoch Leach Alford

Full Name: Enoch Leach Alford
Date of birth: June 5, 1829
Date of death: June 10, 1912

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Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
S	26	Feb 8, 1870 - Jan 17, 1871	12th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ ⁽⁷⁾ ⁽⁸⁾	Radical Republican	La Grange / Fayette		Bastrop, Fayette

(1) E.L. Alford, oaths of office as senator of the 12th Legislature, 4/26/1870 and 7/8/1870. Ancestry.com, Texas, U.S., Bonds and Oaths of Office, 1846-1920.
(2) "In this Senate there are twelve straight out Democrats," 1/10/1871, p. 2. Galveston Daily News.
(3) CONSTITUTION OF 1869. "The House of Representatives was set at ninety members and the Senate at thirty. One-third of the senators were chosen biennially, and their term of office was increased from four to six years. Sessions were held annually." Handbook of Texas Online.
(4) Reinhard Hillebrand, in special election 11/28/1870 through 12/1/1870, sworn 2/17/1871, succeeded E.L. Alford, expelled for resisting arrest during call of the Senate. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
(5) 12th Legislature, 1st C.S. - Drawing for Terms of Office, 5/2/1870, pp. 51-52. Drew 2-year term. Senate Journal.
(6) 12th Legislature, 1st C.S. - Report and resolution expelling E.L. Alford from the Senate for breaking quorum and refusing arrest by the Sergeant-at-Arms adopted, 6/29/1870, pp. 282-283. Resolution rescinding expulsion of E.L. Alford and restoring all rights and privileges of Senate membership adopted 7/27/1870, printed in journal 7/30/1870, pp. 486-487. Resolution referring reseating of E.L. Alford to the Attorney General postponed and protest against reseating entered 8/1/1870, pp. 496-497. Alford present and voting through end of session. Senate Journal. 6/29/1870 7/30/1870 8/1/1870
(7) 12th Legislature, Regular Session - E.C. Alford, having been expelled from the Senate on 6/29/1870, was succeeded by R. Hildebrandt in special election; Hildebrandt took the oath of office on 1/17/1871, p. 18. Alford present and voting through 1/16/1871. Senate Journal. 1/10-16/1871 1/17/1871
(8) Party affiliation, Radical. Roster of members, 12th Legislature, 1870. Texas Almanac for . . . and Emigrant's Guide to Texas.

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Senate District 26
Feb 8, 1870 - Jan 17, 1871
Legislatures: 12th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ ⁽⁷⁾ ⁽⁸⁾
Party: Radical Republican
Home City/County: La Grange / Fayette
Counties in district: Bastrop, Fayette

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Enoch Leach Alford, birth date 6/5/1829 in Knox County, Maine; parents Nathaniel and Deborah Alford; voter registration 7/8/1867 in Fayette County, Texas; marriage to Lida Barkley 3/13/1870 in Fayette County; residence in Fayette County in Census of 1880 and 1900, and in San Antonio, Bexar County in Census of 1900 and 1910; death date 6/10/1912 in San Antonio, Bexar County. Goodson-Neill-Sullivan-Green Extended Family Tree; North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 (excerpt from Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman, The Puritan, from the Year 1617 to 1855, by Henry Wyles Cushman, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1855, preface pp. iii-viiii, and pp. 312-313 ("Enoch Leach [Alford], b. 5 June 1829. Lives in Texas."); Texas, U.S., Voter Registration Lists, 1867-1869; Texas, U.S., Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965; Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903-1982. Ancestry.com.
Enoch L. Alford, birth date 6/5/1829 in Knox County, Maine.
Census of 1860 - E.L. Alferd, Fayette County, age 30, born circa 1830 in Maryland, school teacher.
Census of 1880 - Enoch Alford, La Grange, Fayette County, age 50, born circa 1830 in Maine, farmer, wife Lidia.
Census of 1900 - E.L. Alford, La Grange, Fayette County, age 71, born May 1829 in Maine, lawyer.
Census of 1910 - Enoch L. Alford, San Antonio, Bexar County, age 83, born circa 1827 in New Hampshire, own income. FamilySearch. 1860 1880 1900 1910 Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900
E.L. Alford, age 83; death date 6/10/1912 in San Antonio, Bexar County; farmer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1977.
E.L. Alford, death date 6/10/1912, aged 83 years, burial in Odd Fellows Cemetery, San Antonio, Bexar County (born circa 1829). Find a Grave.
"Jottings by a Seasoned Austin Correspondent," 8/21/1870, p. 2. "Alford was again permitted to take the seat from which he was so unjustly excluded by the rule-or-ruin Radicals of the Senate." Galveston Daily News.
"Revolutionary Proceedings of the Legislature," 8/10/1870, p. 2. Galveston Daily News.
"The Case of Alford," 1/10/1871, p. 2. "When the Democratic Senators left the Chamber during the discussion of the Militia Bill, Senator Alford and two other Republicans were in their company." Galveston Daily News.
"For two days, Senator E.L. Alford, Conservative Republican leader of the coalition, and [Senator A.J.] Fountain were pitted in furious debate on the issue of state versus federal action against the renegade tribes," p. 68, The Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, 1965.
Listed in "Expulsion of State Legislators." National Conference of State Legislatures.
Wife's obituary, Mrs. Lida B. Alford, "Succumbs From the Grip After Brief Illness," The San Antonio Daily Express, 2/7/1908, p. 1. "Deceased is survived by a husband, E.L. Alford, who is very feeble, and who has in the past spent a great portion of his time at LaGrange on his farm."
Notice of death, E.L. Alford, and "Masonic Notice," San Antonio Express, 6/11/1912, p. 5 and 12, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. "E.L. Alford, 83 years old, died yesterday at noon at a local hospital. He was a native of Pennsylvania and had resided in San Antonio for the last three years." "E.L. Alford, late a member of Lafayette Lodge No. 34, A.,F. and A.M. of LaGrange, Tex." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). 2/7/1908 6/11/1912, p. 12 6/11/1912, p. 5

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12th Adjourned - 1871 Comptroller's and Treasurer's Accounts, Examine Federal Relations (Chair) Judiciary Land Office Public Lands (Chair)
12th R.S. - 1871 Examine Comptroller's and Treasurer's Accounts Federal Relations (Chair) Judiciary Land Office Public Lands (Chair)
12th 1st C.S. - 1870 Comptroller's and Treasurer's Accounts, Examine Federal Relations (Chair) Judiciary Land Office Public Lands (Chair) Public School Lands

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