First Texas Legislature

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The First Texas Legislature convened from 16 February to 13 May 1846 in regular session. Members of the House of Representatives and Senate were elected in December 1845, after an election on 13 October 1845 that ratified the proposed state constitution.

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
6 Notes
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Sessions

1st Regular session: 16 February–13 May 1846

[edit] Party summary

[edit] Officers

[edit] Senate

Lieutenant Governor: Albert Clinton Horton, Democrat
President pro tempore: Edward Burleson, Democrat

[edit] House of Representatives

Speaker of the House: William Crump, Democrat, 16 February–1 May 1846; William H. Bourland, Democrat, 1 May 1846–; Stephen W. Perkins, Democrat
Speaker of the House pro tempore^[1]: John Brown, Democrat, acting Speaker 3 March–9 March 1846^[2]; Edward Thomas Branch, Democrat, acting Speaker 9 March-16 March 1846^[3]

[edit] Members

[edit] Senate

Members of the Texas Senate for the First Texas Legislature:

District	Senator	Party	Took office
1	William M. “Buckskin” Williams		1846
2	Ballard C. Bagby		1846
3	William Thomas Scott		1846
4	Joseph Lewis Hogg		1846
5	Benjamin Rush Wallace		1846
6	Jesse J. Robinson		1846
7	George Tyler Wood	Democrat	1846
8	Henry J. Jewett		1846
9	Jesse Grimes		1846
10	Isaac W. Brashear		1846
11	Thomas Freeman McKinney		1846
12	John Greenville McNeill		1846
13	Philip Minor Cuney		1846
14	John F. Miller		1846
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^[4]		1846

[edit] House of Representatives

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

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Adams
Barry
William H. Bourland, Democrat
Edward Thomas Branch, Democrat
John Brown, Democrat
James M. Burroughs
William Leslie Cazneau
Charleton
Edward Clark, Democrat
Wilds K. Cook, Democrat
James Cronican
William E. Crump, Democrat
Echols
Nicholas Henry Darnell
David Catchings Dickson, Democrat
Dupree
Durham
Echols
Eddy
Haden Harrison Edwards
George Bernard Erath
James Shackleford Gillett
Gilliam
Benjamin Gooch
Peter W. Gray
James Wilson Henderson, Democrat
Spearman Holland
Volney E. Howard
Hudson
Robert Anderson Irion
Jones
Charles G. Keenan, Democrat
Evans Mabry
John N. McClarty
McCown
Benjamin McCulloch
Thomas Stuart McFarland
McNeill
Elliott McNeil Millican
Steward Alexander Miller
Muckleroy
Mullens
Noble
Duncan Campbell Ogden
George A. Pattillo
Elisha M. Pease
Stephen W. Perkins, Democrat
Perry
Railey
Rayner
Samuel Redgate, Democrat
John Washington Rose
Alexander J. Russell
Ryburn
William Turner Sadler
Savage
Ashbel Smith
James Smith
Charles Bellinger Tate Stewart, Democrat
Henry Williams Sublett, Democrat
B. F. Tankersly
James A. Truitt, Democrat
White
Williams
James Willie

[edit] Membership changes

[edit] Senate

District	Outgoing Senator	Reason for Vacancy	Successor	Date of Successor's Installation
District 3	William Thomas Scott	Scott resigned 5 June 1847 due to an eye disease.	Edward Clark^[5]	13 December 1847
District 4	Joseph Lewis Hogg	Hogg was granted a leave of absence 4 May 1846 to join the Second Regiment of the Texas Mounted Volunteers for the Mexican-American War, and resigned some time after that.	Isaac Parker	after 4 May 1846
District 7	George Tyler Wood	Wood was granted a leave of absence 4 May 1846 to join the Second Regiment of the Texas Mounted Volunteers for the Mexican-American War, and resigned before 4 September 1847.	William C. Abbott^[6]	13 December 1847
District 11	Thomas Freeman McKinney	McKinney resigned after the end of the session (13 May 1846).	Richard Bache^[7]	13 December 1847

[edit] Notes

^ Speaker Crump received a leave of absence during his term of office. Representatives Brown and Branch, each elected in turn as Speaker of the House pro tempore, acted as Speaker during Crump’s absence.
^ Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives (1846). Journals of the House of Representatives of the First Legislature of the State of Texas (pdf), Clarksville, Texas: Standard Printing Office, 105–106, 160–162. Retrieved on 2007-01-12.
^ Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives (1846). Journals of the House of Representatives of the First Legislature of the State of Texas (pdf), Clarksville, Texas: Standard Printing Office, 67–8, 104–5. Retrieved on 2007-01-12.
^ Bourland was a floating senator “conjointly” elected from Bowie, Red River, Fannin, and Lamar counties
^ Clark was elected in a special election on 1 November 1847 and was sworn in with the Second Texas Legislature.
^ Abbott was elected in a special election on 1 November 1847 and was sworn in with the Second Texas Legislature.
^ Bache was elected in a special election on 1 December 1847 and was sworn in with the Second Texas Legislature.

[edit] References

(2002) Presiding officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2002: prepared by the Research Division of the Texas Legislative Council., Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council., Rev. 2002, Austin, Texas: The Council. OCLC 49526832.