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American judge (1810?1877)
Lemuel Dale Evans
(January 8, 1810 – July 1, 1877) was a
U.S. Representative
from Texas.
Born in Tennessee, Evans studied law and was admitted to the bar. He moved to
Marshall, Texas
, in 1843 and engaged in the practice of law. He served as member of the State convention that
annexed
the State of Texas to the Union in 1845.
Evans was elected as the candidate of the
American Party
to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855 ? March 3, 1857). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1856
to the Thirty-fifth Congress. When the
Civil War
began, he was a
Unionist
in East Texas and shared
Sam Houston
's Unionist views. In
1860
, he was one of the four Texas delegates to the
Constitutional Union
convention.
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He served as collector of internal revenue in 1867. He served as member of the Reconstruction Convention in 1868 and as Chief Justice of the
Texas Supreme Court
in 1870 and 1871. He served as associate justice and presiding judge from 1872 to 1873, when he resigned. In 1875, he was the United States marshal for the eastern judicial district of Texas. He died in Washington, D.C., on July 1, 1877. He was interred in the
Congressional Cemetery
.
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Association, Texas State Historical.
"Evans, Lemuel Dale"
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Texas State Historical Association
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Archived
from the original on 2024-01-09
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2024-01-09
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