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Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
H	57	Nov 5, 1855 - Nov 2, 1857	6th (1)		Austin / Travis		Travis

(1) 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

Biographical Sketches

• Biography, Charles Sherman West, pp. 323-327. Bench and Bar of Texas, 1885.
• WEST, CHARLES SHANNON (1829-1885). "At age twenty-six he was the youngest member of the legislature." Handbook of Texas Online.
• Biographical sketch and portrait, Charles Shannon West, Associate Justice, Texas Supreme Court, 1882-1885. Justices of Texas, 1836-1986 (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2004.

Other Resources

• Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1875. Included in Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Texas: Begun and Held at the City of Austin Texas. Constitutional Convention (1875). Galveston : Printed for the Convention at the "News" Office, 1875, pp. 3-4. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.

Photographs

• Photograph. Charles S. West, Texas Jurists Collection
• Photograph. C.S. West, Constitutional Convention of 1875 Composite Photo. From the collection of the Texas State Library and Archives Commisison.

Committee Information top

6th R.S. - 1855 Capitol Appropriations, Construction, and Furniture   Civil and Criminal Codes, Governor's Message, Select   County and County Boundaries   Education   Judicial Districts, Select   Judiciary   Public Buildings (Chair)  Public Printing   Slaves and Slavery