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Claiborne Caleb Herbert

Full Name: Claiborne Caleb Herbert
Other surnames: Hubert
Date of birth: 1814
Date of death: July 5, 1867

Terms of Service

Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
S 32 Nov 2, 1857 - Nov 4, 1861 8th (1) (2)   7th (3) (4) (5) (6)     Columbus / Colorado   Austin, Colorado, Fayette

Terms of service footnotes


(1) Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Act passed Feb. 6, 1860, 8th Legislature, ch. 45, Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950, 1950. ↩
(2) 8th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators (holdover senators), 11/7/1859, p. 4. Senate Journal. ↩
(3) Members of the Seventh Legislature, Biographical Notes - Members, April 1937 issue. Southern Historical Research Magazine, 1937. ↩
(4) C.C. Hubert. 7th Legislature - "Members of Legislature elect," The Southern Intelligencer (Austin, Texas), 8/12/1857, p. 3, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). ↩
(5) Listed in "New Senators elected: Democrats." Roster of 7th Legislature, "Texas Legislature Complete for 1857-8," Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 9/8/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). ↩
(6) 7th Legislature - Roll of Senators elected since the last adjournment called by Districts, oath of office administered, 11/2/1857, p. 1. Senate Journal. ↩

Terms of Service

Legislatures:
8th (1) (2)   7th (3) (4) (5) (6)  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Columbus / Colorado
Counties in district:
Austin, Colorado, Fayette

Terms of service notes


(1) Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Act passed Feb. 6, 1860, 8th Legislature, ch. 45, Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950, 1950. ↩
(2) 8th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators (holdover senators), 11/7/1859, p. 4. Senate Journal. ↩
(3) Members of the Seventh Legislature, Biographical Notes - Members, April 1937 issue. Southern Historical Research Magazine, 1937. ↩
(4) C.C. Hubert. 7th Legislature - "Members of Legislature elect," The Southern Intelligencer (Austin, Texas), 8/12/1857, p. 3, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). ↩
(5) Listed in "New Senators elected: Democrats." Roster of 7th Legislature, "Texas Legislature Complete for 1857-8," Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 9/8/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). ↩
(6) 7th Legislature - Roll of Senators elected since the last adjournment called by Districts, oath of office administered, 11/2/1857, p. 1. Senate Journal. ↩

Biographical Information

  • HERBERT, CLAIBORNE C. (ca. 1814-1867). Handbook of Texas Online.
  • Biographical sketch and portrait, p. 150, Plate No. 63. Texas in the War, 1861-1865, 1965.

  • Mexican War Veteran. Claiborne Caleb Herbert, born c. 1814, death date 7/5/1867, son of Nathaniel and Clarissa (Jones) Herbert, burial in Reels Bend Cemetery, Colorado County. Colorado County Cemetery Records, 2009.
  • "Upon outbreak of the Civil War he was captain of a home guard at Eagle Lake, near his home. By June 1861 he was serving as an aid-de-camp in the Tenth District, comprising Milam, Burleson, Washington, Austin, and Colorado counties, where he attained the rank of colonel." Handbook of Texas Online.

  • Colonel C.C. "Claib" Herbert, p. 232. Governors Who Have Been, and Other Public Men of Texas, 1921.
  • Death notice, "Death of a Congressman Elect," Evening Star (Washington, District of Columbia), 7/18/1867, p.4. "The deceased had long been a prominent politician; had been a member of both the United States and Confederate Congress." Newspapers.com.

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