Descriptive Summary
Haynes, John L.
Haynes, John L. Papers
1846-1945
Materials are written in English.
86-9
7 1/2 in.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin
Correspondence, census report,
memoranda, program, certificate, clippings, telegram, licenses, poem, petition,
photographs, maps, and broadside of John L. Haynes, publisher, soldier, legislator,
and attorney.
Biographical Note
John Leal Haynes (1821–1888) was a military and political leader, born in Bedford
County, Virginia. In the early 1840s he became the editor of the Lexington,
Mississippi, Advertiser. He volunteered for service in
the Mexican War and rose to the rank of lieutenant. Subsequently he lived in the
frontier towns of Camargo, Tamaulipas, and Rio Grande City, Texas. After service
during 1850 as Starr county clerk, he was in the state House of Representatives from
1857 to 1861. Governor Sam Houston appointed him quartermaster of state troops on
the frontier in 1860. During the Civil War Haynes became an officer in Col. Edmund
J. Davis's First Texas Cavalry (U.S.). He was promoted to colonel of the Second
Texas Cavalry (U.S.) when it was organized in 1863 and commanded the consolidated
regiment formed from both units in 1864. Between 1865 and 1868 he lived in Austin
and served as internal revenue collector. He campaigned unsuccessfully for Congress
in 1869 as a supporter of Andrew J. Hamilton. Haynes was collector of customs at
Galveston in 1869–70 and at Brownsville from 1872 to 1884. He was active
continuously in the Republican party during the Reconstruction era: he helped lead
the conservative faction in the late 1860s, supported the regular party in the
1870s, and ran for lieutenant governor on the "straight-out" Republican ticket in
1884. Haynes was married and had one daughter and four sons. He was a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic and the Masonic order. He died in Laredo in 1888, and was
buried in the Protestant cemetery in that city.
Information taken from the Handbook of Texas Online
Scope and Contents
Papers of Haynes include correspondence, census report, memoranda, program,
certificate, clippings, telegram, licenses, poem, petition, photographs, maps, and
broadside. Papers concern Haynes's legislative and political career; organization of
the Seventh Legislature; efforts to obtain United States troops for defense of the
Texas western frontier; Cortina Wars and the
sending of a gubernatorial investigative commission.
Papers also relate to the Compromise of 1850; the Texas and New Mexico Act; and the
petitioning of United States Congress for establishment of the Territory of the Rio Grande; support for Sam Houston
for governor; Houston's opposition to secession; and Unionist sympathy in Texas.
Also included are a Texas census of 1858 and United States census of 1860; materials
relating to the 1860 Democratic National Convention in Baltimore; the 1860
presidential election; political and service materials during the Civil War; and
other political newspaper clippings and materials relating to the Republican party
and Constitutional Conventions.
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Index Terms
Subjects (Persons)
Haynes, John L., 1821–1888--Archives.
Flanagan, James W. (James Wainwright), b. 1872
Halleck, H. W. (Henry Wager), 1815-1872
Hamilton, Morgan Calvin, 1809-1893
Hancock, John
McCormick, Andrew Phelps, 1832-1916
Mills, W. W. (William Wallace), 1836-1913
Norton, A. Banning (Anthony Banning), 1821-1893
Pease, E. M. (Elisha Marshall), 1812-1883
Powers, Stephen, 1840-1904
Subjects (Organizations)
United States. Congress. House
Grand Army of the Republic
Subjects
Rio Grande Valley--History--19th century
Compromise of 1850
Secession
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Democratic National Convention (1860 : Baltimore, Md.)
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment.
Republican Party (Tex.)
Places
Austin (Tex.)
Brownsville (Tex.)
Cameron County (Tex.)
Galveston (Tex.)
Laredo (Tex.)
Rio Grande City (Tex.)
Starr County (Tex.)
Preferred Citation
John L. Haynes Papers, 1846-1945, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin.
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