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- ↑ Constitution of the State of Texas. Gammel Book Company. 1901. p. 362. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
- ↑ Chasin, Joan E. (1991). Family Venture : Men and Women on the Southern Frontier: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier. Oxford University Press. p. 36. ISBN 019536385X . Retrieved September 9, 2015.
- ↑ Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, page 82
- ↑ McDonald Shaw, Patsy (1999). The Texas Senate: Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889. Texas A&M University Press. p. 221. ISBN 0890968578 . Retrieved September 9, 2015.
- ↑ "William Blassingame". texastribune.org. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
