Person:Dewitt Giddings (1)

[Mary Elizabeth Giddings from 2787254.ged]

1852 Moved to Brenham, Washington Co., Texas; Served three terms in Congress; Committee of Land Claims, & Indian Affairs; Confederate Army from Texas.
1866 Member of State Constitutional Convention; Giddings Texas named after him.
1850 Census.  Shown living with parents/farmer.

Thomas William Herringshaw, Encylopedia of American Biography, p. 399 Giddings, De Witt C., soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born July 18, 1827, in Susquehanna County, PA. He served as a soldier in the confederate army. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1866. He was elected to the forty-second congress, and re-elected to the forty-third congress, and re-elected to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat. He served on numerous important committees while a member of congress.

Bio graphical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949; Biographies, p. 1207 Giddings, DeWitt Clinton, a Representative from Texas; born in Susquehanna County, Pa, July 18, 1827; pursued an academic course; studied law in Honesdale, Pa.; was admitted to the bar in Texas in 1852 and commenced practice in Brenham, Tex.; served in the Confederate Army throughout the Civil War; member of the State constitutional convention in 1866; successfuly contested as a D emocrat the election of William T. Clark to the Forty-second Congress; reelected to the Forty-third Congress and served from May 13, 1872, to March 3, 1875; again elected to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1879); engaged in the banking business in Brenham, Tex.; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1884, 1888, and 1892; died in Brenham, Tex., on August 19, 1903; interment in Prairie Lea Cemetery.