William Sidney Coleman

Full Name: William Sidney Coleman
Date of birth: October 10, 1841
Date of death: June 12, 1880

Terms of Service
Biographical Notes
Committee Information

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Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
H	79	Jan 14, 1879 - Jun 12, 1880	16th ⁽¹⁾	Democrat	Marshall / Harrison		Cherokee, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Shelby
H	79	Apr 18, 1876 - Jan 14, 1879	15th ⁽²⁾	Democrat	Marshall / Harrison		Cherokee, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Shelby

(1) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News.
(2) Mentioned in "The news from Austin . . . Resignations of Representative Barziza and four others accepted after critical debate . . . Hunter restored to his seat . . . Other resignations not improbable," Thursday, 8/3/1876, p. 1. Galveston Daily News.

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House District 79
Jan 14, 1879 - Jun 12, 1880
Legislatures: 16th ⁽¹⁾
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Marshall / Harrison
Counties in district: Cherokee, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Shelby

House District 79
Apr 18, 1876 - Jan 14, 1879
Legislatures: 15th ⁽²⁾
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Marshall / Harrison
Counties in district: Cherokee, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Shelby

Biographical Information top

Biographical Sketches

Biographical sketch. Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878, 1876.
Biographical sketch, William Sidney Coleman, p. 272. Birth date 10/10/1841. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80, 1879.

Military Service Notes

Confederate States Army, Company A, 3rd Texas Cavalry. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80, 1879.

Other Resources

William Sidney Coleman, birth date 10/10/1841, death date 6/12/1880, burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Marshall, Harrison County. Includes death notices from Marshall Tri-Weekly Herald, 6/12/1880 and 6/15/1880, and Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, Louisiana), 6/16/1880; and marriage announcement in The Galveston Daily News, 4/22/1869. Find a Grave.
Account of death. "Fatal Difficulty," The Galveston Daily News, 6/12/1889, p. 1. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
William S. Coleman, Marshall lawyer and Democratic politician, pp. 311-313; "redemption" election of 1878, pp. 350, 353; railroad subsidy issue, pp. 327, 357-358. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880, 1983.

Photographs

Photograph. W.S. Coleman, 15th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

15th session composite photo of House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board.

Committee Information top

16th R.S. - 1879 Assessment and Collection of Taxes Claims and Accounts Finance (Chair) Judiciary No. 2 New Judiciary Article to the Constitution Penitentiaries, Subcommittee on Penitentiary Privileges and Elections Rules Towns and City Corporations
15th R.S. - 1876 Assessment and Collection of Taxes Constitutional Amendments Finance Judiciary No. 1 Judiciary No. 2 Penitentiary (Chair) Privileges and Elections State Penitentiary (Chair) Towns and City Corporations

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