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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

Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 33 Nov 5, 1855 - Nov 2, 1857 6th (1) (2)     Liberty / Liberty   Liberty

(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

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

6th R.S. - 1855
Civil and Criminal Codes, Governor's Message, Select  
County and County Boundaries  
Federal Relations  
Judiciary  
Land Titles West of Nueces River, Select  
Private Land Claims No. 1  
Private Land Claims No. 2 (Chair) 
Privileges and Elections  

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