James Luther Slayden [SEP] occupation
James Luther Slayden
James Luther Slayden (June 1, 1853 – February 24, 1924), was a cotton merchant and rancher, and a politician, elected from San Antonio to United States House of Representative from Texas' 12th congressional district, serving 1897–1903. (In 1900 he was temporarily redistricted to the newly organized 14th congressional district, including Galveston and extending south along the coast.)
He supported the development of railroads in the state, as well as making San Antonio a United States military center. Slayden was
a post office. It developed as a station on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway, whose construction and extension to this county Slayden had supported as a businessman of San Antonio. Today its population is fifteen.
References.
- Slayden, Maury Ellen. "Washington Wife: Journal of Mary Ellen (Maury) Slayden from 1897–1919", New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, 1962
- "Biographical Directory of the American Congress"
- Sondra Wyatt Gray, "The Political Career of James Luther