Coke, Richard
soldier, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born March 13, 1829, in Williamsburg, Va. He served in the confederate army as a commissioned officer. He was appointed district judge in 1865 and in 1866 was elected a judge of the state supreme court. In 1873 he was elected governor of Texas, and was re-elected in 1876. He resigned in 1877, having been elected a United States senator from Texas for the term of six years from March 4, 1877; was reelected in 1883 and 1889, serving till 1895.