Richard Ellis (Texas politician)

Richard Ellis (1781 – December 20, 1846) was an American plantation owner, politician, and judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Alabama.

Ellis was born and raised in the tidewater region of Virginia, but he settled in Alabama.

In 1836 he was unanimously elected president of the Texas constitutional convention that declared independence on March 2, 1836.

He also held the convention together for the additional seventeen days needed to draft Texas's constitution.

Ellis died in Bowie County in 1846, but in 1929, he and his wife, Mary West Dandridge were reinterred in the State Cemetery at Austin, Texas.