Franklin B. Sexton (1828)

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Biography

TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p 96 "Franklin B. Sexton, of El Paso, was born April 29th 1828. He was graduated from Wesleyan College, San Augustine, Texas, in 1846. He studied law under Gen. J. Pinckney Henderson and Judge Oran M. Roberts, and being admitted to the bar in 1843 immediately began the active practice. In 1861 he was elected to the State Senate and the folloing year was chosen to the Confederate Congress where he attained great distinction as orator and debater, advocating every measure that could promise triumph for the cause he loved. In 1872 he removed to Marshall, Texas and 1876 was a member of theNational Democratic Convention that nominated Tilden for president. He was an active Mason since his twenty-first year and at different times was grand master, grand high priest and grand commander of the Knights Templar. He was married Aug. 10 1852, in Sabine county to Miss Eliza S. Richardson, whose family were prominent in civil and military affairs of the young Republic of Texas. Of this union three daughters and two sons survive. Col. Sexton lived in El Paso the last eight years of his life and there as always sustained himself as one of the great lawyers of Texas."

Sources

• Confederate Biography: FRANKLIN B. SEXTON, Harrison Co, TX (http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/smith/bios/txgray/sextonfb.txt) Submitted by Susie McFarland Lemin slemin@yahoo.com. 11 October 2001