Erich F. Schmidt was a German-born American politician. Schmidt was a native of

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the Nor ...

, born on 8 October 1831. He moved to Texas in 1866. Schmidt succeeded Edward Anderson in office on 22 March 1873, and represented the fourteenth district of the

Texas House of Representatives The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature. It consists of 150 members who are elected from single-member districts for two-year terms. As of the 2010 United States census, each member represents abou ...

until 18 April 1876. Schmidt served the remainder of his tenure in the state house for the thirty-third district, and stepped down on 14 January 1879. He died on 15 December 1904.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schmidt, Erich F. 1831 births Politicians from Braunschweig Democratic Party members of the Texas House of Representatives 19th-century American legislators Immigrants to the United States Politicians from Houston 1904 deaths