James Armstrong | |
State House: | Texas |
District: | Jefferson |
Term Start: | December 13, 1847 |
Term End: | November 5, 1849[1] |
Successor: | District created |
State Senate2: | Texas |
District2: | 14th |
Term Start2: | November 3, 1851 |
Term End2: | November 7, 1853 |
Predecessor2: | Jerome B. Robertson |
Successor2: | James K. Holland |
State Senate3: | Texas |
District3: | 23rd |
Term Start3: | November 7, 1853 |
Term End3: | November 2, 1857 |
Alongside3: | Thomas Hinds Duggan |
Successor3: | George Bernard Erath |
State House4: | Texas |
District4: | 1st |
Term Start4: | January 14, 1873 |
Term End4: | January 13, 1874 |
Predecessor4: | Thomas Jefferson Chambers Joseph Grigsby Smyth W. T. Simmons |
Successor4: | James Bates Simpson Dan Triplett Pinkney Samuel Watts |
Birth Place: | Kentucky, U.S. |
Death Date: | [2] |
Death Place: | Beaumont, Texas, U.S. |
Children: | 5 |
James Armstrong (- December 21, 1879) was a Texan politician who served in the Texas House and Texas Senate.
Armstrong was born in 1811 in Kentucky. He later moved to Jasper County in 1835, where he would stay until 1840.
He served in many districts in both the Texas House and Texas Senate from 1847 to 1874.
He died of pneumonia on December 21, 1879, at Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, at the age of 67–68.