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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
TABLE 2
PROFILE OF UNSUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES ON JUNE 25, 1866
State Service
of Slave- during
District Name Birth owner? Confederacy1 Benjamin F. Atkins
John T. Harcourt
2 A. D. McGinnis
3 [no candidate]
4 John H. Duncan
5 S. M. Hyde
6 J. B. Williamson
7 George Goldthwaite
8 Bird W. Gray
9 L. W. Cooper
Thomas J. Jennings
to Sam A. White
Albert N. Mills
11 A. M. Jackson
12 Noah Cox
13 C. M. Winkler
Albert G. Perry
Isaac Taylor
14 E. P. Upton
15 B. C. Franklin
16 R. W. Scott
J. W. Ferris
17 Joel A. Houghton
18 [no candidate]
19 W. Y. McFarland
A.J. Evans
20 [no candidate]N.C.
Ky.
Tenn.
Tenn.
Pa.
S.C.
Ala.
Ga.
Va.
N.C.
Va.
Ohio
N.C.
Tenn.
Mass.
Ga.
N.Y.
N.Y.
Ga.yes
yes
no
no
no
no
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
no
yesTenn. yes
S.C. yesPvt., CSA
State Senate
Dist. Judge
Dist. Judge
Pvt., State Troops
none
none
Dist. Judge
State Senate
none
State House
Capt., CSA
none
Pvt., CSA
Lt. Col., CSA
none
Pvt., CSA
Capt., Home Guard
none
Pvt., CSA
Dist. Judge
Dist. Atty.
Dist. Judge
Pvt., CSAWartime records even seemed to help candidates who faced no op-
ponent with notable unionist credentials. Capt. Benjamin Shropshire
outpolled two rivals in the First District, one of whom was John T.
Harcourt, a longtime Democratic party activist who remained an active
conservative through Reconstruction.8 In the Second District, Lt. Col.
John Ireland defeated A. D. McGinnis, who had served on the bench
8Records of the Secretary of State, Election Returns, 1866. Ernest Wilham Winkler (ed.),
Platforms of Poltscal Parties in Texas (Austin: University of Texas, 1916), 68, 75, 128, 140, 148,
indicates Harcourt's activities as a Democrat.362
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