Second Texas Legislature
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The Second Texas Legislature met from 13 December 1847 to 20 March 1848 in regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1847.
Contents |
[edit] Sessions
- 2nd Regular session: 13 December 1847–20 March 1848
[edit] Party summary
[edit] Officers
[edit] Senate
- Lieutenant Governor
- John Alexander Greer, Democrat
- President pro tempore
- Edward Burleson, Democrat
[edit] House of Representatives
- Speaker of the House
- James Wilson Henderson, Democrat
[edit] Members
[edit] Senate
Members of the Texas Senate for the Second Texas Legislature:
| District | Senator | Party | Took office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | William M. “Buckskin” Williams | 1846 | |
| 2 | James B. Wootten | 1847 | |
| 3 | Edward Clark | Democrat | 1847 |
| 4 | Isaac Parker | 1847 | |
| 5 | Benjamin Rush Wallace | 1846 | |
| 6 | John H. McRae | 1847 | |
| 7 | William C. Abbott | 1847 | |
| 8 | Henry J. Jewett | 1846 | |
| 9 | Jesse Grimes | 1846 | |
| 10 | Isaac W. Brashear | 1846 | |
| 11 | Richard Bache | 1847 | |
| 12 | Stephen W. Perkins | 1847 | |
| 13 | Philip Minor Cuney | 1847 | |
| 14 | John Winfield Scott Dancy | 1847 | |
| 15 | Edward Burleson | 1846 | |
| 16 | Robert McAlpin Williamson | 1846 | |
| 17 | Alexander H. Phillips | 1846 | |
| 18 | José Antonio Navarro | 1846 | |
| 19 | Henry Lawrence Kinney | 1846 | |
| F | James G. Bourland | 1846 |
- ↑ Bourland was a floating senator “conjointly” elected from Bowie, Red River, Fannin, and Lamar counties
[edit] House of Representatives
Members of the House of Representatives for the Second Texas Legislature:
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- James Armstrong
- John D. Anderson
- William H. Bourland, Democrat
- Guy Morrison Bryan, Democrat
- Jacob Raphael De Cordova
- Benjamin Holland Epperson
- Samuel G. Haynie
- James Wilson Henderson, Democrat
- Charles G. Keenan, Democrat
- Mirabeau B. Lamar
- Emory Rains, Democrat
- John Henninger Reagan, Democrat
- Thomas Jefferson Shannon
- Adolphus Sterne
- James Truitt, Democrat
[edit] Membership Changes
[edit] Senate
| District | Outgoing Senator |
Reason for Vacancy | Successor | Date of Successor's Installation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District 11 | Richard Bache | Senator Bache died 17 March 1848 | None | |
| District 17 | Alexander H. Phillips | Senator Phillips resigned 1 March 1848. | None | |
| District 19 | Henry Lawrence Kinney | Senator Kinney resigned before 18 December 1847. | Edward Fitzgerald | 5 February 1848 |
| District 19 | Edward Fitzgerald | Senator Fitzgerald resigned 20 March 1848. | None |
[edit] External links
- Texas Legislature Online
- Texas Senate
- Texas House of Representatives
- Election Results from the Office of the Secretary of State
- Legislative Reference Library
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| Past: | 1 (1846) | 2 (1847) | 3 (1849) | 4 (1851) | 5 (1853) | 6 (1855) | 7 (1857) | 8 (1859) | 9 (1861) | 10 (1863) |
| 11 (1866) | 12 (1870) | 13 (1873) | 14 (1874) | 15 (1876) | 16 (1879) | 17 (1881) | 18 (1883) | 19 (1885) | 20 (1887) | |
| 21 (1889) | 22 (1891) | 23 (1893) | 24 (1895) | 25 (1897) | 26 (1899) | 27 (1901) | 28 (1903) | 29 (1905) | 30 (1907) | |
| 31 (1909) | 32 (1911) | 33 (1913) | 34 (1915) | 35 (1917) | 36 (1919) | 37 (1921) | 38 (1923) | 39 (1925) | 40 (1927) | |
| 41 (1929) | 42 (1931) | 43 (1933) | 44 (1935) | 45 (1937) | 46 (1939) | 47 (1941) | 48 (1943) | 49 (1945) | 50 (1947) | |
| 51 (1949) | 52 (1951) | 53 (1953) | 54 (1955) | 55 (1957) | 56 (1959) | 57 (1961) | 58 (1963) | 59 (1965) | 60 (1967) | |
| 61 (1969) | 62 (1971) | 63 (1973) | 64 (1975) | 65 (1977) | 66 (1979) | 67 (1981) | 68 (1983) | 69 (1985) | 70 (1987) | |
| 71 (1989) | 72 (1991) | 73 (1993) | 74 (1995) | 75 (1997) | 76 (1999) | 77 (2001) | 78 (2003) | |||
| Current: | 79 (2005) | |||||||||
| Future: | 80 (2007) | |||||||||
