Third Texas Legislature

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The Third Texas Legislature met from 5 November 1849 to 3 December 1850 in its regular session and two called sessions. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1849.

Contents

[edit] Sessions

[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 
Charles G. Keenan, Democrat

[edit] Members

[edit] Senate

Members of the Texas Senate for the Third Texas Legislature:

District Senator Party Took office
1 Matthias Ward Democrat 1849
2 Albert Hamilton Latimer Democrat 1849
3 Hart Hardin Democrat 1849
4 Albert G. Walker Democrat 1849
5 David Gage Democrat 1847
6 James F. Taylor Democrat 1849
7 Alfred M. Truitt Democrat 1849
8 John H. McRae Democrat 1847
9 John H. Moffitt Democrat 1849
10 Isaac Parker Democrat 1847
11 John B. Jones Democrat 1849
12 Isaac W. Brashear Democrat 1846
13 Jesse Grimes Democrat 1846
14 Jerome Bonaparte “Polly” Robertson Democrat 1849
15 Wilds K. Cooke Democrat 1849
16 Edward Burleson Democrat 1846
17 David Y. Portis Democrat 1849
18 Alexander H. Phillips Democrat 1846
19 Henry Lawrence Kinney Democrat 1846
20 David C. Van Derlip Democrat 1849
21 H. Clay Davis Democrat 1849
22 Benjamin Rush Wallace Democrat 1846

[edit] House of Representatives

Members of the House of Representatives for the Third Texas Legislature:

  • George E. Burney, Democrat
  • Anthony Butler, Democrat
  • Guy Morrison Bryan, Democrat
  • David Catchings Dickson, Democrat
  • Benjamin Cromwell Franklin, Democrat
  • James K. Holland, Democrat
  • Joshua Foster Johnson, Democrat
  • William G. W. Jowers, Democrat
  • Charles G. Keenan, Democrat
  • William Jarvis Russell, Democrat
  • Benjamin E. Tarver, Democrat
  • Marion DeKalb Taylor, Democrat
  • William M. "Buckskin" Williams, Democrat
  • James Charles Wilson, Democrat
  • Adolphus Sterne, Democrat
  • Edward H. Winfield, Democrat

[edit] Membership Changes

[edit] Senate

District Outgoing
Senator
Reason for Vacancy Successor Date of Successor's Installation
District 4 Albert G. Walker Senator Walker resigned 30 March 1850 Samuel R. Campbell[1] 12 August 1850
District 6 James F. Taylor Senator Taylor resigned 5 October 1850. James F. Taylor[2] 18 November 1850
District 11 John B. Jones In an election contest, Elisha M. Pease unseated Senator Jones on 9 November 1849. Elisha M. Pease 9 November 1849
  •   Campbell was elected in a special election on 22 July 1850.
  •   After his resignation, Taylor was reelected in a special election.

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