Lemuel D. Evans

Lemuel Dale Evans ( born January 8, 1810 in Tennessee; † July 1, 1877 in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer Lemuel Evans began in 1843 in Marshall ( Texas), where he had moved in the meantime to work in this profession. In his new home he began a political career as a member of the American Party. In 1845 he was a member of the Constituent Assembly of the future state of Texas. In the congressional elections of 1854 Evans was elected in the first district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of George W. Smyth on March 4, 1855. Since he has not been confirmed in 1856, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1857. This was marked by the events leading up to the Civil War.

1861, during the war, Evans traveled together with Anna Carroll as a secret agent of the Northern states to St. Louis to prepare for the invasion of Texas by the Northern States.

1867 Evans became head of the tax authority in his home. A year later he was a member at a meeting is to reintegrate the State of Texas into the Union. From 1870 to 1873 he served as judge of the Supreme Court of Texas. After that, he was in 1875 U.S. Marshal for the Eastern District of Texas. He died on 1 July 1877 in the German capital Washington and was buried at the Congress Cemetery.