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Which Texas constitution was associated with the administration of Governor E.J. Davis?

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Following the end of the war, Davis became a member of the 1866 Texas Constitutional Convention. He supported the rights of freed slaves and urged the division of Texas into several Republican-controlled states.

In 1869, he was narrowly elected governor against Andrew Jackson Hamilton, a Unionist Democrat. Documented cases of serious fraud, presented to Congress and the President, were ignored. As a Radic…

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