Hannibal Boone

Hannibal Honestus Boone (February 24, 1834 – May 23, 1897) was the 16th Attorney General of Texas.

Hannibal Honestus Boone
16th [[Attorney General of Texas]]
In office
April 25, 1876 – November 5, 1878
GovernorRichard Coke
Richard B. Hubbard
Preceded byGeorge W. Clark
Succeeded byGeorge McCormick
Personal details
Born(1834-02-24)24 February 1834
Tipton County, Tennessee
Died23 May 1897(1897-05-23) (aged 63)
Navasota, Texas
Resting placeOakland Cemetery[1]
Navasota, Texas
Political partyDemocratic
ProfessionLawyer, Politician
Military service
Allegiance Confederate States
Branch/service Confederate States Army
Years of service1861-1865
Rank Major
Unit Waller's Regiment, Texas Cavalry[2]
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War

Biography

He was the son of Joseph and Harriet Boone, was born in Tipton County, Tennessee. The Boone family was in Austin (now Waller) County, Texas by 1852. Boone studied law at Austin College, but never graduated. In June 1953, a charter of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity was granted to Boone and 2 other students.[3] He managed his father’s plantation until 1859, when he began to practice law in Hempstead. In 1861, Boone married Rebecca Fullinwieder, with whom he had one daughter.

With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Boone enlisted as a private in Colonel John S. Ford’s regiment of the Confederate Army. The regiment chiefly protected trade between the Confederacy and Mexico by patrolling the Rio Grande. Boone later rose to the rank of Major and served as executive officer to Major Edwin Waller Jr, on the Texas-Louisiana border. Boone was wounded on September 29, 1863, at Fordoche, Louisiana, losing his right arm and the first two fingers and thumb of his left hand. He was transferred to the headquarters for the Texas District and served under General John B. Magruder for the rest of the war.

Toward the end of the war, in November 1863, Boone married Susan Gordon, with whom he had many children. After the war ended, the two moved to Anderson, Texas, where Boone practiced law. Boone was elected Attorney General of Texas in 1876 and served one term. Former attorney general William M. Walton had planned to run in the 1876 election but withdrew from the race when he learned Boone, a disabled Confederate veteran, was a candidate.[4] Boone move to Navasota after his term in Austin where he lived until his death on May 23, 1897.

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References
  1. "Hannibal Honestus Boone". Find A Grave. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  2. "Soldier Details". National Park Service. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  3. The Catalogue of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. New York: Phi Delta Theta. 1894. p. 62.
  4. Bowman, T. H. (1904), Reminiscences of an Ex-Confederate Soldier, Gammel-Statesman Publishing Co.
Legal offices
Preceded by
George W. Clark		 Attorney General of Tennessee
1876–1878		 Succeeded by
George McCormick
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