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{{Officeholder
|name=David Webster Flanagan
|image=
|party=[[Republican]]
|spouse=Elizabeth Graham (died 1872)<br>Sallie Phillip Ware
|religion=[[Baptist]]
|offices=
{{Officeholder/misc
|office=[[President pro tempore]] of the Texas Senate
|terms=November 13, 1871 – ???
|preceded=???
|former=y
|succeeded=???
}}
{{Officeholder/state senator
|state=Texas
|district=5th
|terms=February 10, 1870 – April 18, 1876
|preceded=John G. Brown
|former=y
|succeeded=Francis M. Henry
}}
|military=y
|allegiance=[[Confederate States of America]]
|rank=
|branch=Confederate Army
|battles=[[American Civil War]]
}}
'''David Webster Flanagan''' (January 9, 1832 – May 5, 1924) was a prominent Republican in [[Texas]] known for his participation in state politics during the [[Reconstruction]] Era and briefly gaining the national spotlight at the 1880 Republican National Convention.
==Early life, career, and Confederate Army service==
Flanagan was born on January 9, 1832, in Cloverport, Kentucky (located in Breckinridge County), to James W. Flanagan and the former Polly Miller.<ref name=tshabio>Watkins, Myrtis (1975). [https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/flanagan-david-webster Flanagan, David Webster (1832–1924)]. ''Texas State Historical Association''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref> At the age of eleven, the Flanagans moved to Henderson, Texas, where the youthful Webster enrolled at local private schools and later Henderson College. The family also resided in Virginia at some point.<ref name=civilwartoreform>Spaw, Patsy McDonald (1990). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Texas_Senate/9UIfOm5_9mQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=webster+flanagan+texas&pg=PA98&printsec=frontcover The Texas Senate: Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889], pp. 97–100. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref>
"Under special act of the legislature," Flanagan at the age of nineteen was admitted to the state bar, practicing law up until the outbreak of the Civil War.<ref name=civilwartoreform/> Despite his personal allegiance to the Union cause and opposition to secession, Flanagan took part in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.<ref name=tshabio/> However, due to [[tuberculosis]], he was discharged, subsequently serving as Panola County's chief justice instead.<ref name=civilwartoreform/>
==Political career==
In the postbellum era, Flanagan and his father were active in the moderate wing of the Republican Party,<ref name=tshabio/> and were popular in their district despite pro-Union viewpoints.<ref name=civilwartoreform/> They attended the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1868–69 as delegates, where they dissented from the final draft of the document, joining [[Radical Republicans]] in supporting the division of Texas into three separate states to resolve regional divides.<ref name=civilwartoreform/>
From 1870–76, he served in the Texas state Senate from the 5th district and temporarily was elected pro tempore for mid-November 1871 until the end of the Adjourned Session of the 12th Legislature.<ref>[https://www.lrl.texas.gov/legeleaders/leadership/ltgovbrowse.cfm Lieutenant Governors of Texas, 1846 - present]. ''Legislative Library Reference of Texas''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref> During Flanagan's tenure, he opposed Governor Edmund J. Davis's anti-railroad actions and utilized his chairmanship of the Committee on Internal Improvements to push railroad legislation.<ref name=civilwartoreform/>
Flanagan was a member of the state's Constitutional Convention of 1875.<ref name=tshabio/><ref name=civilwartoreform/>
According to former U.S. senator [[Thomas C. Platt]] in his 1910 published autobiography, Flanagan was a [[Stalwart Republican]] delegate among the "Old Guard" 306 who supported the nomination of [[Ulysses S. Grant]] to a nonconsecutive third term in the [[United States presidential election, 1880|1880 U.S. presidential election]].<ref>Platt, Thomas C. (1910). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Autobiography_of_Thomas_Collier_Plat/6a1YAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=powell%20clayton The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt], p. 122. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
*[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28967515/david-webster-flanagan Profile] at ''Find a Grave
*[https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/flanagan.html#828.94.44 Profile] at ''The Political Graveyard
{{DEFAULTSORT:Flanagan, Webster}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Stalwarts (Republican Party)]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Baptists]]
[[Category:Reconstruction]]
[[Category:Gilded Age]]
|name=David Webster Flanagan
|image=
|party=[[Republican]]
|spouse=Elizabeth Graham (died 1872)<br>Sallie Phillip Ware
|religion=[[Baptist]]
|offices=
{{Officeholder/misc
|office=[[President pro tempore]] of the Texas Senate
|terms=November 13, 1871 – ???
|preceded=???
|former=y
|succeeded=???
}}
{{Officeholder/state senator
|state=Texas
|district=5th
|terms=February 10, 1870 – April 18, 1876
|preceded=John G. Brown
|former=y
|succeeded=Francis M. Henry
}}
|military=y
|allegiance=[[Confederate States of America]]
|rank=
|branch=Confederate Army
|battles=[[American Civil War]]
}}
'''David Webster Flanagan''' (January 9, 1832 – May 5, 1924) was a prominent Republican in [[Texas]] known for his participation in state politics during the [[Reconstruction]] Era and briefly gaining the national spotlight at the 1880 Republican National Convention.
==Early life, career, and Confederate Army service==
Flanagan was born on January 9, 1832, in Cloverport, Kentucky (located in Breckinridge County), to James W. Flanagan and the former Polly Miller.<ref name=tshabio>Watkins, Myrtis (1975). [https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/flanagan-david-webster Flanagan, David Webster (1832–1924)]. ''Texas State Historical Association''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref> At the age of eleven, the Flanagans moved to Henderson, Texas, where the youthful Webster enrolled at local private schools and later Henderson College. The family also resided in Virginia at some point.<ref name=civilwartoreform>Spaw, Patsy McDonald (1990). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Texas_Senate/9UIfOm5_9mQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=webster+flanagan+texas&pg=PA98&printsec=frontcover The Texas Senate: Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889], pp. 97–100. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref>
"Under special act of the legislature," Flanagan at the age of nineteen was admitted to the state bar, practicing law up until the outbreak of the Civil War.<ref name=civilwartoreform/> Despite his personal allegiance to the Union cause and opposition to secession, Flanagan took part in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.<ref name=tshabio/> However, due to [[tuberculosis]], he was discharged, subsequently serving as Panola County's chief justice instead.<ref name=civilwartoreform/>
==Political career==
In the postbellum era, Flanagan and his father were active in the moderate wing of the Republican Party,<ref name=tshabio/> and were popular in their district despite pro-Union viewpoints.<ref name=civilwartoreform/> They attended the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1868–69 as delegates, where they dissented from the final draft of the document, joining [[Radical Republicans]] in supporting the division of Texas into three separate states to resolve regional divides.<ref name=civilwartoreform/>
From 1870–76, he served in the Texas state Senate from the 5th district and temporarily was elected pro tempore for mid-November 1871 until the end of the Adjourned Session of the 12th Legislature.<ref>[https://www.lrl.texas.gov/legeleaders/leadership/ltgovbrowse.cfm Lieutenant Governors of Texas, 1846 - present]. ''Legislative Library Reference of Texas''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref> During Flanagan's tenure, he opposed Governor Edmund J. Davis's anti-railroad actions and utilized his chairmanship of the Committee on Internal Improvements to push railroad legislation.<ref name=civilwartoreform/>
Flanagan was a member of the state's Constitutional Convention of 1875.<ref name=tshabio/><ref name=civilwartoreform/>
According to former U.S. senator [[Thomas C. Platt]] in his 1910 published autobiography, Flanagan was a [[Stalwart Republican]] delegate among the "Old Guard" 306 who supported the nomination of [[Ulysses S. Grant]] to a nonconsecutive third term in the [[United States presidential election, 1880|1880 U.S. presidential election]].<ref>Platt, Thomas C. (1910). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Autobiography_of_Thomas_Collier_Plat/6a1YAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=powell%20clayton The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt], p. 122. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
*[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28967515/david-webster-flanagan Profile] at ''Find a Grave
*[https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/flanagan.html#828.94.44 Profile] at ''The Political Graveyard
{{DEFAULTSORT:Flanagan, Webster}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Stalwarts (Republican Party)]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Baptists]]
[[Category:Reconstruction]]
[[Category:Gilded Age]]