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Historical List of Justices of the Peace, Dallas County, Texas 1846-2000

Place Start Date End Date

1-1 1875
1-2 1876
1-1 1876
1-1 1879
1-2 1881
1-2 1883
1-1 1885
1-1 1887
1-2 1889

1876
1880
1878
1884
1882
1888
1886
1892
1890

Justice Name
Burford, Nathaniel M.
Peak, William W.
McLure, E. C.
Edwards, William M.
Price, W. H.
Kendall, T.G.T.
Schuhl, Henry
Braswell, Samuel N.
Brown, John Henry

Sources/Remarks
Dec 1873; CCM(1)-"Bond Dec
29,1873"; Commis. Mar 1874;
CCM-Resigned Apr 17,1875
and replaced by Burford.18
ER(1) appointed April 1875 as
Chief Justice to replace Kerfoot;
CCM(1) Apr 17,1875.19
ER(1) Feb 1876; CCM Apr 14,
1876- "Bond approved"; ER(1)
Nov 1878, CCM(1)--"Bond
approved Dec 2,1878"; Commis.
Mar 1879.20
ER(1) Feb 1876; CCM(1)--
"Bond approved Apr 17,1876".21
ER(1) Nov 1878; CCM(1)-
"Bond approved" Nov 18,1878;
Commis. Mar 1879; ER Nov 1880;
ER Nov 1882; Commis. Nov
1882.22
ER Nov 1880; Dir 1881-82
ER Nov 1882, Commis. Nov
1882; Dir 1883-84; 1884-85;
ER Nov 1886.
CCM Feb 9,1886-"Allowed
fees"); M&BH- JP-1 (1885-86).
JP(1) documents 1886-88;
ER Nov 1888; ER Nov 1890.
DIR 1889-1890; JP documents
1889, 1890.

~8Special Judge 14th District Court June 1874; Mayor of Dallas Apr 1876.
19 Judge of Civil Court 1856-1862 and 1876-1877.
20 County Clerk 1854-1856.
21 City Alderman 1875.
22 City Alderman Apr 1888.

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