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Charles L. Cleveland
Full Name: Charles Lander Cleveland
Date of birth: August 25, 1824
Date of death: February 9, 1892
Terms of Service top
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Nov 5, 1855 - Nov 2, 1857
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6th
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Liberty / Liberty
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Liberty
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(1)
"Judge Cleveland was also active in the Democratic party and was a delegate to the 1854 Democratic state convention from Liberty County."
Handbook of Texas Online.
(2)
Included "[a]mong 1855 legislators that this writer has positively identified as Know Nothings." The party was active in Texas at the state level between 1855 and 1857. "An Analysis of the Texas Know Nothings," Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 414, 416-417.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
Biographical Notes and Resources top
Selected Newspaper articles
Biographical Sketches
- Judge Charles L. Cleveland mentioned on p. 904 of biographical sketch of law partner, Judge Asa Hoxey Willie, pp. 904-905.
Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families, 1889.
- Biographical sketch and portrait, Judge Charles Lander Cleveland, pp. 53-55.
The Encyclopedia of the New West, 1881.
- CLEVELAND, CHARLES LANDER (1824-1892).
Handbook of Texas Online.
- Mentioned in biographical sketch of Judge J. Stewart Cleveland, p. 2111.
A History of Texas and Texans, 1914.
Other Resources
- Discussed in Ch. XXIV, East Texas Men, p. 142, "died in the office of Criminal District Judge of Harris & Galveston Counties"; and "A Quartette of Able Lawyers," pp. 250-259.
Governors Who Have Been, and Other Public Men of Texas, 1921.
- Delegate to Secession Convention of Texas, 1861. Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas 1861. Edited from the original in the
department of state by Ernest William Winkler, State Librarian. Texas Library and Historical Commission, the State Library. Austin: Austin Print. Co., 1912, pp. 20-22. Originally published serially in newspapers.
Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.
Committee Information top
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