The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 93, July 1989 - April, 1990 Page: 362

                                
Southwestern Historical Quarterly

TABLE 2
PROFILE OF UNSUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES ON JUNE 25, 1866
State                Service
of     Slave-       during
District        Name            Birth  owner?      Confederacy

1      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
yes

Tenn.       yes
S.C.        yes

Pvt., 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., CSA

Wartime 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.

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