Civil War CONFEDERATE TEXAS VETS GOVERNOR CONGRESSMAN AUTOGRAPH SIGNED 3rd SC/GA
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Here areautographs of 2 Civil War TX ConfederatesSAMUEL W. T. LANHAM(1846 -1908)CIVIL WAR WIA SPOTTSYLVANIA CONFEDERATE SERGEANT
IN THE 3rd SOUTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, 23rd GOVERNOR OF TEXAS 1903-1907 – THE LAST CONF. VETERAN
TO SERVE AS GOVERNOR&US DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN FROM TEXAS 1883-1903!In1861 Lanham joined the Confederate Army as a private in the service of CompanyK, Third South Carolina Regiment, Joseph B. Kershaw's brigade. The unit servedprimarily with the Army of ...Northern Virginia but also saw action in Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Lanham was wounded-in-action at the battleof Spotsylvania in May 1864. He was promoted to second sergeant near the end ofthe war and surrendered with his command at Greensboro, North Carolina. He was alsoappointed District Attorney for the 13th District of Texas byGovernor EdmundJ. Davis in 1871 and served through 1876. In July 1871 heprosecuted Kiowa Indian chiefs Satantaand BigTree for their part in the WarrenWagontrain Raid!-And-ROBERT E. BURKE(1847 -1901)CIVIL WAR PVT IN “D” Co., 10th GEORGIA CAVALRY, US DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN FROM TEXAS 1887-1901&JUDGE OF THE 14th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT 1888-1896, and DALLAS
CITY COUNCILMAN 1874-5.Before he was sixteen Burke enlisted inthe Tenth Georgia Calvary Regiment, in the Confederate Army. He moved to Texasin 1866, settled at Jefferson, and began the study of law while working as aclerk and teaching school. He was admitted to the bar in 1870 and moved toDallas, where he began practice. He also served as a Dallas County Judge from1878 to 1888HERE’SLANHAM’S and BURKE’S SIGNATURES REMOVED FROM A 19th CENTURYAUTOGRAPH ALBUM and SIGNED:“S. W. T.Lanham, Weatherford, Texas8th Dist.”ON THE VERSOIS BURKE’S SIGNATURE, SIGNED:“R E.Burke, Dallas, Texas”The document measures 6½” x 2½” and is in VERY FINE CONDITION.A RARE ADDITION TO YOUR TEXAS MILITARY and POLITICALHISTORY AUTOGRAPH, MANUSCRIPT & EPHEMERA COLLECTION!<<>::<>>BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE HONORABLES. W. T. LANHAMSAMUEL WILLIS TUCKER LANHAM (1846–1908).S. W. T. Lanham, United States representative and twenty-third governor of theState of Texas, was born on July 4, 1846, to James Madison and Louisa de Aubrey(Tucker) Lanham in Spartanburg District (now County), South Carolina, and namedfor his maternal grandfather, Samuel Willis Tucker. He was the oldest of eightchildren; he had four sisters and three brothers. He received a common-schooleducation at Glenn Springs, South Carolina. In 1861 he joined the Confederate Army as a private in the service ofCompany K, Third South Carolina Regiment, Joseph B. Kershaw's brigade. The unitserved primarily with the Army of Northern Virginia but also saw action inTennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Lanham was wounded at the battleof Spotsylvania in May 1864. He was promoted to second sergeant near the end ofthe war and surrendered with his command at Greensboro, North Carolina. On September 4, 1866, Lanham married Sara Beona Meng of Union County, South Carolina. The couple left for Texas the next month with nineteen otherpeople and arrived in Red River County in December. Lanham took a job teachingin a country school near Clarksville and later taught at Old Boston aftermoving to Bowie County. In 1868 he moved his family to Weatherford, where hetaught school in one room of a log cabin and lived in the other room. At thesame time he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Weatherford in 1869. Hewas appointed district attorney for the Thirteenth District of Texas byGovernor EdmundJ. Davis in 1871 and served through 1876. In July 1871 heprosecuted Kiowa Indian chiefs Satantaand BigTree for their part in the WarrenWagontrain Raid.Lanham, a Democrat, began his political career in 1880, when he was chosenas an elector for the Hancock-English presidential ticket. In November 1882 hewas elected to the United States House of Representatives from the EleventhDistrict of Texas, known as the "jumbo" district because it consistedof ninety-eight counties. He served five terms, until March 1893. He made anunsuccessful run for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1894, losing toCharlesA. Culberson. He was again elected to Congress in 1896 andrepresented the Eighth District until January 1903. In Congress he representedthe interests of cattlemen, pursued citizens' claims for Indian depredations, and worked on state and international boundary questions. He also helped tosecure a federal court at El Paso. His House committee service includedJudiciary, Territories, Military Affairs, Claims, and Irrigation of Arid Lands;he served as chairman of the last two.Lanham secured the 1902 Democratic nomination for governor with noopposition. His campaign was supported by EdwardM. House, who dominated Texas politics for over a decadebefore becoming the confidential advisor of president Woodrow Wilson. Lanhamdefeated Republican GeorgeW. Burkett in the November general election. In 1904 he wasreelected, defeating J. G. Lowden. Lanham was the last Confederate veteran toserve as governor of Texas. During his tenure, the Terrell Election Law, which provided for party primary elections, was enacted. As a result, he wasthe last Democratic gubernatorial candidate to be chosen by theparty-convention method. After serving out his second term as governor, heretired to Weatherford in failing health in 1907.He was considered an eloquent speaker and writer, and often made speechesat Confederate veterans' camps throughout Texas. In 1868 he joined the Masons.He received an honorary doctorate from Baylor University in June 1905. GovernorThomasM. Campbell appointed him a regent of the University of Texas in1907. Illness, including diabetes, prevented him from participating in boardmeetings after January 1908.Sarah Lanham died in Weatherford on July 2, 1908. On July 29, 1908, Lanhamalso died in Weatherford, where he was buried. Five of the Lanhams' eightchildren lived to adulthood. Their son FrederickGarland Lanham served in the United States House ofRepresentatives from 1919 to 1947. Texas novelist EdwinM. Lanham, Jr., was their grandson.BIBLIOGRAPHY: History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Tarrantand Parker Counties (Chicago: Lewis, 1895). Frank W.Johnson, A History of Texas and Texans (5 vols., ed. E. C. Barker andE. W. Winkler [Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1914; rpt.1916]). Sidney S. Johnson, Texans Who Wore the Gray (Tyler, Texas, 1907). Virgil Madison Rogers, Family History: Rogers-McCravy-Lanham(Strasburg, Virginia, 1975).<<>::<>>BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE HONORABLEROBERT E. BURKEBURKE, ROBERT E. (1847–1901). Robert E.Burke, legislator, son of James M. and Narcissa J. (Holmes) Burke, was bornnear Dadeville, Alabama, on August 1, 1847. Before he was sixteen he enlistedin Company D, Tenth Georgia Cavalry Regiment, in the Confederate Army. He movedto Texas in 1866, settled at Jefferson, and began the study of law whileworking as a clerk and teaching school. He was admitted to the bar in 1870 andmoved to Dallas, where he began practice. He served as a member of the citycouncil from 1874 to 1875, county judge from 1878 to 1888, and judge of theFourteenth Judicial District from 1888 to 1896. He was elected as a Democrat tothe Fifty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1897, until his death. JudgeBurke married Mary L. Henderson; they had three children. He died in Dallas onJune 5, 1901. I am a proud member of the Universal Autograph Collectors Club (UACC), TheEphemera Society of America, the Manuscript Society and the American PoliticalItems Collectors (APIC) (member name: John Lissandrello). I subscribe to eachorganizations' code of ethics and authenticity is guaranteed. ~Providingquality service and historical memorabilia online for over ten years.~ WE ONLY SELL GENUINE ITEMS, i.e., NO REPRODUCTIONS, FAKES OR COPIES!
IN THE 3rd SOUTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, 23rd GOVERNOR OF TEXAS 1903-1907 – THE LAST CONF. VETERAN
TO SERVE AS GOVERNOR&US DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN FROM TEXAS 1883-1903!In1861 Lanham joined the Confederate Army as a private in the service of CompanyK, Third South Carolina Regiment, Joseph B. Kershaw's brigade. The unit servedprimarily with the Army of ...Northern Virginia but also saw action in Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Lanham was wounded-in-action at the battleof Spotsylvania in May 1864. He was promoted to second sergeant near the end ofthe war and surrendered with his command at Greensboro, North Carolina. He was alsoappointed District Attorney for the 13th District of Texas byGovernor EdmundJ. Davis in 1871 and served through 1876. In July 1871 heprosecuted Kiowa Indian chiefs Satantaand BigTree for their part in the WarrenWagontrain Raid!-And-ROBERT E. BURKE(1847 -1901)CIVIL WAR PVT IN “D” Co., 10th GEORGIA CAVALRY, US DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN FROM TEXAS 1887-1901&JUDGE OF THE 14th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT 1888-1896, and DALLAS
CITY COUNCILMAN 1874-5.Before he was sixteen Burke enlisted inthe Tenth Georgia Calvary Regiment, in the Confederate Army. He moved to Texasin 1866, settled at Jefferson, and began the study of law while working as aclerk and teaching school. He was admitted to the bar in 1870 and moved toDallas, where he began practice. He also served as a Dallas County Judge from1878 to 1888HERE’SLANHAM’S and BURKE’S SIGNATURES REMOVED FROM A 19th CENTURYAUTOGRAPH ALBUM and SIGNED:“S. W. T.Lanham, Weatherford, Texas8th Dist.”ON THE VERSOIS BURKE’S SIGNATURE, SIGNED:“R E.Burke, Dallas, Texas”The document measures 6½” x 2½” and is in VERY FINE CONDITION.A RARE ADDITION TO YOUR TEXAS MILITARY and POLITICALHISTORY AUTOGRAPH, MANUSCRIPT & EPHEMERA COLLECTION!<<>::<>>BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE HONORABLES. W. T. LANHAMSAMUEL WILLIS TUCKER LANHAM (1846–1908).S. W. T. Lanham, United States representative and twenty-third governor of theState of Texas, was born on July 4, 1846, to James Madison and Louisa de Aubrey(Tucker) Lanham in Spartanburg District (now County), South Carolina, and namedfor his maternal grandfather, Samuel Willis Tucker. He was the oldest of eightchildren; he had four sisters and three brothers. He received a common-schooleducation at Glenn Springs, South Carolina. In 1861 he joined the Confederate Army as a private in the service ofCompany K, Third South Carolina Regiment, Joseph B. Kershaw's brigade. The unitserved primarily with the Army of Northern Virginia but also saw action inTennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Lanham was wounded at the battleof Spotsylvania in May 1864. He was promoted to second sergeant near the end ofthe war and surrendered with his command at Greensboro, North Carolina. On September 4, 1866, Lanham married Sara Beona Meng of Union County, South Carolina. The couple left for Texas the next month with nineteen otherpeople and arrived in Red River County in December. Lanham took a job teachingin a country school near Clarksville and later taught at Old Boston aftermoving to Bowie County. In 1868 he moved his family to Weatherford, where hetaught school in one room of a log cabin and lived in the other room. At thesame time he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Weatherford in 1869. Hewas appointed district attorney for the Thirteenth District of Texas byGovernor EdmundJ. Davis in 1871 and served through 1876. In July 1871 heprosecuted Kiowa Indian chiefs Satantaand BigTree for their part in the WarrenWagontrain Raid.Lanham, a Democrat, began his political career in 1880, when he was chosenas an elector for the Hancock-English presidential ticket. In November 1882 hewas elected to the United States House of Representatives from the EleventhDistrict of Texas, known as the "jumbo" district because it consistedof ninety-eight counties. He served five terms, until March 1893. He made anunsuccessful run for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1894, losing toCharlesA. Culberson. He was again elected to Congress in 1896 andrepresented the Eighth District until January 1903. In Congress he representedthe interests of cattlemen, pursued citizens' claims for Indian depredations, and worked on state and international boundary questions. He also helped tosecure a federal court at El Paso. His House committee service includedJudiciary, Territories, Military Affairs, Claims, and Irrigation of Arid Lands;he served as chairman of the last two.Lanham secured the 1902 Democratic nomination for governor with noopposition. His campaign was supported by EdwardM. House, who dominated Texas politics for over a decadebefore becoming the confidential advisor of president Woodrow Wilson. Lanhamdefeated Republican GeorgeW. Burkett in the November general election. In 1904 he wasreelected, defeating J. G. Lowden. Lanham was the last Confederate veteran toserve as governor of Texas. During his tenure, the Terrell Election Law, which provided for party primary elections, was enacted. As a result, he wasthe last Democratic gubernatorial candidate to be chosen by theparty-convention method. After serving out his second term as governor, heretired to Weatherford in failing health in 1907.He was considered an eloquent speaker and writer, and often made speechesat Confederate veterans' camps throughout Texas. In 1868 he joined the Masons.He received an honorary doctorate from Baylor University in June 1905. GovernorThomasM. Campbell appointed him a regent of the University of Texas in1907. Illness, including diabetes, prevented him from participating in boardmeetings after January 1908.Sarah Lanham died in Weatherford on July 2, 1908. On July 29, 1908, Lanhamalso died in Weatherford, where he was buried. Five of the Lanhams' eightchildren lived to adulthood. Their son FrederickGarland Lanham served in the United States House ofRepresentatives from 1919 to 1947. Texas novelist EdwinM. Lanham, Jr., was their grandson.BIBLIOGRAPHY: History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Tarrantand Parker Counties (Chicago: Lewis, 1895). Frank W.Johnson, A History of Texas and Texans (5 vols., ed. E. C. Barker andE. W. Winkler [Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1914; rpt.1916]). Sidney S. Johnson, Texans Who Wore the Gray (Tyler, Texas, 1907). Virgil Madison Rogers, Family History: Rogers-McCravy-Lanham(Strasburg, Virginia, 1975).<<>::<>>BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE HONORABLEROBERT E. BURKEBURKE, ROBERT E. (1847–1901). Robert E.Burke, legislator, son of James M. and Narcissa J. (Holmes) Burke, was bornnear Dadeville, Alabama, on August 1, 1847. Before he was sixteen he enlistedin Company D, Tenth Georgia Cavalry Regiment, in the Confederate Army. He movedto Texas in 1866, settled at Jefferson, and began the study of law whileworking as a clerk and teaching school. He was admitted to the bar in 1870 andmoved to Dallas, where he began practice. He served as a member of the citycouncil from 1874 to 1875, county judge from 1878 to 1888, and judge of theFourteenth Judicial District from 1888 to 1896. He was elected as a Democrat tothe Fifty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1897, until his death. JudgeBurke married Mary L. Henderson; they had three children. He died in Dallas onJune 5, 1901. I am a proud member of the Universal Autograph Collectors Club (UACC), TheEphemera Society of America, the Manuscript Society and the American PoliticalItems Collectors (APIC) (member name: John Lissandrello). I subscribe to eachorganizations' code of ethics and authenticity is guaranteed. ~Providingquality service and historical memorabilia online for over ten years.~ WE ONLY SELL GENUINE ITEMS, i.e., NO REPRODUCTIONS, FAKES OR COPIES!
