Eighth Texas Legislature

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The Eighth Texas Legislature met from 7 November 1859 to 9 April 1861 in its regular session, a first called session, and an adjourned session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1859.

Contents 1 Sessions 2 Party summary 3 Officers 3.1 Senate 3.2 House of Representatives 4 Members 4.1 Senate 4.2 House of Representatives 5 Membership changes 5.1 Senate 5.2 House of Representatives 6 External links

[edit] Sessions

• 8th Regular session: 7 November 1859–13 February 1860
• 8th First called session: 21 January–9 February 1861
• 8th Adjourned session: 18 March–9 April 1861

[edit] Party summary

[edit] Officers

[edit] Senate

Lieutenant Governor

Edward Clark, Democrat

President pro tempore

Jesse Grimes, Democrat, Regular session

[edit] House of Representatives

Speaker of the House 

M. D. K. Taylor, Democrat

[edit] Members

Members of the Eighth Texas Legislature at the beginning of the regular session, 7 November 1859:

[edit] Senate

District	Senator	Party	Took office
1	James W. Sims	Democrat	1859
2	Lewis G. Harmon	Democrat	1859
3	Martin D. Hart	Democrat	1859
4	James W. Throckmorton	Democrat	1857
5	Albert G. Walker	Democrat	1857 (First time: 1849–1851)
6	Emory Rains	Democrat	1859
7	John G. Chambers	Democrat	1859
8	Louis T. Wigfall	Democrat	1857
9	Jesse H. Parsons	Democrat	1859
10	Elisha Everett Lott	Democrat	1853
11	Robert Henry Guinn	Democrat	1853
12	Alexis T. Rainey	Democrat	1859
13	John N. Fall	Democrat	1857
14	John R. Dickinson	Democrat	1859
15	Henry C. Wallace	Democrat	1859
16	Enoch S. Pitts	Democrat	1859
17	Mark M. Potter	Democrat	1851
18	Abram Morris Gentry	Democrat	1859
19	Jesse Grimes	Democrat	1855 (First time: 1846–1853)
20	Chauncey Berkeley Shepard	Democrat	1857
21	David M. Whaley	Democrat	1858
22	Francis Marion Martin	Democrat	1859
23	George Bernard Erath	Democrat	1857
24	George E. Quinan	Democrat	1857
25	Eggleston D. Townes	Democrat	1859
26	Fletcher S. Stockdale	Democrat	1857
27	Thomas Hinds Duggan	Democrat	1859 (First time: 1851–1853)
28	Edwin B. Scarborough	Democrat	1853
29	Forbes Britton	Democrat	1857
30	Isaiah Addison Paschal	Democrat	1857 (First time: 1853–1855)
31	Gustav Schleicher	Democrat	1859
32	Claiborne C. Herbert	Democrat	1857
33	Archibald C. Hyde	Democrat	1857

[edit] House of Representatives

• Basilio Benavides
• Anthony Martin Branch
• Constantine W. Buckley
• William Clark
• Nicholas Henry Darnell
• Isaac N. Dennis
• David Catchings Dickson
• Edward Dougherty
• Foscue
• Benjamin Cromwell Franklin
• James Marshall Harrison
• J. W. Henderson
• Alfred Marmaduke Hobby
• Richard Bennett Hubbard, Jr.
• Henry Lawrence Kinney
• Francis J. Lynch
• John Haywood Manley
• Samuel Maverick
• John N. McClarty
• George McKnight
• Roger Q. Mills
• William Wright Morris
• Titus H. Mundine
• José Ángel Navarro
• Allison Nelson
• Benjamin F. Parker
• Samuel Redgate
• Joel Walter Robison
• Shelton
• Daniel McDowell Short
• John Dennis Stell
• M. D. K. Taylor
• Robert H. Taylor
• Robert J. Townes
• Jacob Waelder
• Charles A. Warfield
• George Washington Whitmore
• William Amos Wortham
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Wrede, Jr.

[edit] Membership changes

[edit] Senate

District	Outgoing Senator	Reason for Vacancy	Successor	Date of Successor's Installation
District 3	Martin D. Hart	Hart resigned 26 February 1861.	Turner L. Greene	Unknown
District 8	Louis T. Wigfall	Wigfall announced his resignation on 7 December 1859.	E. A. Blanch	14 January 1860
District 9	Jesse H. Parsons	Parsons resigned after the adjourned session.	None
District 12	Alexis T. Rainey	Rainey resigned after the regular session.	Steward Alexander Miller	21 January 1861
District 14	John R. Dickinson	Dickinson resigned after the regular session.	Henry P. C. Dulany	26 January 1861
District 15	Henry C. Wallace	Wallace resigned 4 January 1861.	Franklin Barlow Sexton	None[1]
District 15	Franklin Barlow Sexton	Sexton did not appear.	None[2]
District 25	Eggleston D. Townes	Townes resigned 13 March 1861.	Nathan George Shelley[3]	4 November 1861
District 29	Forbes Britton	Britton resigned after the called session.	Benjamin Franklin Neal	19 March 1861
District 30	Isaiah Addison Paschal	Paschal resigned 29 March 1861.	Unknown	Unknown

• ^  District 15: Sexton did not return from Confederate States Army service in time to meet with the legislature.
• ^  District 25: Shelley elected in special election held 25 March 1861 and sworn in with the Ninth Texas Legislature.

[edit] House of Representatives

District	Outgoing Representative	Reason for Vacancy	Successor	Date of Successor's Installation
District 22	John N. McClarty	McClarty resigned after the regular session.	William Wright Morris	22 January 1861
District 65	Henry Lawrence Kinney	Kinney was opposed to secession and resigned 9 February 1861.	Alfred Marmaduke Hobby	19 March 1861

[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
• Billhop - Texas Legislative Wiki

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