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Meshack Roberts Full Name: Meshack R. "Shack" Roberts Date of birth: 1821 Date of death: Deceased, date unknown Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District H 10 Apr 18, 1876 - Jan 14, 1879 15th (1)   Republican Marshall / Harrison   Harrison H 5 Jan 13, 1874 - Apr 18, 1876 14th (2)   Republican Marshall / Harrison   Harrison, Rusk H 7 Jan 14, 1873 - Jan 13, 1874 13th (3)   Republican Marshall / Harrison   Harrison (1) Mentioned in "The news from Austin . . . Resignations of Representative Barziza and four others accepted after critical debate . . . Hunter restored to his seat . . . Other resignations not improbable," Thursday, 8/3/1876, p. 1. Galveston Daily News. (2) Republican. Directory of the Members and Officers of the Fourteenth Legislature of the State of Texas . . ., 1874. (3) Republican. Directory of the Members of the Thirteenth Legislature of the State of Texas, 1873.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Resolutions and Journal entries 79th Legislature, R.S., HR 589, paying tribute to African American legislators and constitutional convention delegates of 1868-1900. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary. 85th Legislature, R.S., HR 452, celebrating Black History Month and honoring the leadership and vision of African American lawmakers. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary. Biographical Sketches Portrait and biographical sketch. Forever Free: Nineteenth Century African-American Legislators and Constitutional Convention Delegates of Texas, 2002. ROBERTS, MESHACK (?-?). Handbook of Texas Online. Biographical sketch, p. 115. A History of Upshur County, Texas, 1966. Biographical sketch, Chapter VI, "Black Belt Politics," pp. 103-104. The Negro in Texas, 1874-1900, 1971. Biographical sketch, Meshack Roberts, pp. 65-68, 72. Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants: a History of the Negro in Texas Politics from Reconstruction to Disfranchisement, 1935. Biographical sketch, S.R. Roberts, pp. 68-69. "He is fifty-eight years old." Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878, 1876. Biographical sketch, pp. 38, 40. Birth year 1821, Appendix D. Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares: Black Leadership in Texas, 1868-1898, 2016. Other Resources Mentioned, p. 67. Black Texans: a History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995, 1996. Harrison County "continued to support a Republican delegation to the state legislature" in 1873: Webster Flanagan to the State Senate, Shack Roberts ("black leader from Harrison County") and Ed Brown ("Negro from Rusk County, as a representative of the two county district") to the House, p. 310. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880, 1983. Shack Roberts, Republican state representative, pp. 308, 310, 313-314,325; "redemption" election of 1878, pp. 354, 364. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880, 1983. Mentioned, pp. 98, 135. Time of Hope, Time of Despair: Black Texans During Reconstruction, 1981. Photographs Photograph. Meshack Roberts, 13th Legislature, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Collection. Photograph. Meshack Roberts, 14th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. Meshack Roberts, 15th Legislature, State Preservation Board 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. 14th session composite photo of Senate and House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board. 15th session composite photo of 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.. Committee Informationtop 15th R.S. - 1876 Roads, Bridges and Ferries   14th R.S. - 1874 Claims and Accounts   Counties and County Boundaries   Roads, Bridges and Ferries   13th R.S. - 1873 Immigration   Private Land Claims

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