Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — DEATH OF “BUCK” KILGORE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH OF “BUCK” KILGORE.

Former Congressman from "Texas Expires at Ardmore, I. T. Judge C. Buckley Kilgore, ex-Congrew-man from Texas, died at Ardmore, I. T., after a short illness. Mr. Kilgore was born in Newman, Ga., Feb. 20, 1835. In 1846 he removed, with his parents, to Rusk County, Texas, where he received a common-school education. He served

in the Confederate army, first as private, and by successive promotions reached the grade of adjutant general. He was wounded at Chickamauga, nnd in 1864 was confined as a prisoner in Fort Delaware. He was admitted to the bar after the war, and in 1875 was a member of the Texas constitutional-convention. He was a presidential elector in 1880 on the Hancock and English ticket, and in 1884 was elected to the State Senate for four years, and in the following year was chosen president'of that body for two years. lie-was elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses as a Democrat “Buck” Kilgore achieved greatness in a single night while in Congress by kicking down the door which Speaker Reed had caused to be locked so that he could hold a quorum while it was being counted. That brought him universal notoriety and immense popularity on the Democratic side of the house.

“BUCK” KILGORE.