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Document 35064

RICHARD COKE
Texas Judge removed by General Sheridan.
Signature: "Richard Coke/Waco/Texas", 7x4¾. On February 1, 1861, delegate Richard Coke (1829-1897), voted for secession at the Texas Secession Convention. It passed 166-7 and was ratified by popular vote (34,794-11,325) on February 23rd. He entered the Confederate Army as a private, rising to Captain by war's end. Coke served as judge of the Supreme Court of Texas from 1866 to 1867, when General Philip Sheridan, Military Governor of the 5th Military District (Texas and Louisiana), removed him, determining that Coke was an "impediment to reconstruction". This action gained popularity for Coke, who was elected Governor of Texas, serving from 1874-1877, the first in a line of Democratic Texas Governors that lasted until 1979. Coke later served as U.S. Senator (1877-1895). Irregular left edge, shaded at blank right and bottom margins, else fine.

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