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Stephen Augustus Venters
Full Name: Stephen Augustus Venters
Date of birth: June 27, 1822
Date of death: March 12, 1881
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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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51
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Jan 14, 1879 - Jan 11, 1881
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16th
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Democrat
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Denton / Denton
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Denton
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22
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Jan 14, 1873 - Jan 13, 1874
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13th
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Democrat
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Denton / Denton
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Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Grayson, Hardeman, Haskell, Jack, Knox, Montague, Throckmorton, Wichita, Wilbarger, Wise, Young
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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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Biographical Sketches |
VENTERS, STEPHEN AUGUSTUS (1822-1881).
Handbook of Texas Online.
S.A. Venters, portrait and biographical sketch, birth date 6/27/1822, death date 3/12/1881, p. 28; elected to Legislature in 1874, pp. 121-122.
History and Reminiscences of Denton County, 1918.
Biography, Stephen Augustus Venters, pp. 265-266. Birth date 6/27/1833 in Pitt County, North Carolina.
Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80, 1879.
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Other Resources |
Census of 1870, Stephen A. Venters, Denton County, age 48 [born ca. 1822], dry goods merchant, born in North Carolina, spouse Mary L.
Ancestry.com.
Judge Stephen A. Venters, birth date 6/27/1822, death date 3/12/1881, grave marker photo and interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Denton (Denton County).
Find a Grave.
S.A. Venters, chief justice (county judge), August 1856, p. 64; postmaster at New Alton in 1851, pp. 66-67; and county judge, pp. 76 and 193.
History of Denton County, From Its Beginning to 1960, 1978.
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Photographs |
Photograph.
Stephen Venters, 13th Legislature, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Collection.
Photograph.
Stephen Venters, 13th Legislature, State Preservation Board
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Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol |
13th session composite photo of Senate and House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board.
13th session composite photo of Senate and House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board.
Pictorial Monogram of the State Government of Texas 1873 (DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Collection). DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Collection..
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