Background
He was born to William Blassingame and Mary Earl Prince.
He was born to William Blassingame and Mary Earl Prince.
He is not to be confused with a William Blassingame in the 1830s who was a sheriff in Alabama and South Carolina. At age 25, he enlisted as a private in the Confederate Army in 1861 and was an assistant surgeon in General Benjamin McCulloch"s Missouri campaign. He was also one of five medical doctors part of the Texas Senate when he was elected as a senator to the Sixteenth Texas Legislature in 1879 as a Grange delegate and previously had served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1875 as well as being a signer of the resulting constitution.
At both the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Legislature, he represented the 11th district both times.
He is buried in the Blassingame family cemetery in Sandusky, Texas near Frisco and no additional details are known about him.
In 1876, he also started as a member of the Fifteenth Legislature, covering Grayson County and Cooke County.