Francis Menefee White

Full Name: Francis Menefee White
Date of birth: August 11, 1811
Date of death: March 22, 1897

Terms of Service
Biographical Notes
Committee Information

Terms of Service top

Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	City/County	Counties in District
H	59	Nov 5, 1855 - Nov 2, 1857	6th	Texana / Jackson	Calhoun, Jackson
H	59	Nov 7, 1853 - Nov 5, 1855	5th	Texana / Jackson	Calhoun, Jackson
H	48	Nov 3, 1851 - Nov 7, 1853	4th	Texana / Jackson	Jackson, Matagorda, Wharton
H	Jackson	Feb 16, 1846 - Dec 13, 1847	1st ⁽¹⁾	Texana / Jackson	Jackson

(1) TEXANA, TX. Texana was originally a community in south central Jackson County, incorporated as a municipality in 1840, and by 1884, was a virtual ghost town. Handbook of Texas Online.

Biographical Notes and Resources top

Resolutions and Journal entries

5th Legislature - Roll of Members, Francis M. White, age 42, native state Tennessee, emigrated from Alabama in 1831, farmer, postoffice Texana, Jackson County. House Journal.

Biographical Sketches

Biographical sketch, p. 189. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845, 1942.
WHITE, FRANCIS MENEFEE (1811-1897). Handbook of Texas Online.

Military Service Notes

Texas Army, Lieutenant, participated in the siege of Bexar. Handbook of Texas Online.

Other Resources

Portrait, p. 194. A Comprehensive History of Texas, 1685 to 1897.
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.

Committee Information top

6th R.S. - 1855 Education Enrolled Bills Privileges and Elections Public Debt Public Lands (Chair) Surveying Public Lands, Select
5th R.S. - 1853 Finance Public Debt Public Lands (Chair)
4th R.S. - 1851 Federal Relations Penitentiary
1st R.S. - 1846 Contingent Expenses County Boundaries Land Office Repairs to Public Buildings in Austin, Select

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