William Beck Ochiltree

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Biographical Sketches

• Biographical sketch, pp. 81-84. Bench and Bar of Texas, 1885.
• Biographical sketch, pp. 145-146. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845, 1942.
• OCHILTREE, WILLIAM BECK (1811-1867). Handbook of Texas Online.
• Biographical sketch and portrait, William Beck Ochiltree, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas, 1842-1845. Justices of Texas, 1836-1986 (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2004.

Military Service Notes

• Biographical sketch, pp. 55-56. Texans Who Wore the Gray, 1907.
• Confederate States Army, Colonel, 18th Texas Infantry. William Beck Ochiltree. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide, 2002.
• Biographical sketch and portrait, pp. 21, 108, Plate No. 62. Texas in the War, 1861-1865, 1965.

Other Resources

• Included on list of "Texas Whigs Named in Newspapers and Identified From the Census of 1850," Vol. 73, No. 1, pp. 30-33. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
• Ochiltree was the Whig candidate for governor in 1853. "The Constitutional Union Party in Texas," Vol. 82, No. 3 (Jan. 1979) p. 235. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
• Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1845. Journals of the Convention, assembled at the city of Austin on the Fourth of July, 1845, for the purpose of framing a constitution for the State of Texas, pp. 377-378. Austin: Miner & Cruger, printers to the Convention, 1845. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.
• 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.

Photographs

• Photograph. William Ochiltree, Texas Jurists Collection

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