Maxey, Samuel Bell
soldier, lawyer, state senator, United States senator, was born March 30, 1825, in Monroe county, Ky. He moved to Texas in 1857, and in 1861 was elected state senator for four years, but declined to serve, and raised the ninth Texas infantry for the confederate service, and was made colonel. He was brigadier-general in 1862, major-general in 1864; commanded the district of the Indian territory from 1863 to the close of the war, and was also superintendent of Indian affairs. In 1874 he was elected United States senator from Texas; and was re-elected for the term ending in 1887.