Sixteenth Texas Legislature

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The Sixteenth Texas Legislature met from 14 January to 9 July 1879 in its regular session and one called session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1878 General Election.

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
6 External links

[edit] Sessions

16th Regular session: 14 January–24 April 1879
16th First called session: 10 June–9 July 1879

[edit] Party summary

[edit] Officers

[edit] Senate

Lieutenant Governor: Joseph Draper Sayers, Democrat
President pro tempore: Edwin Hobby, Democrat, Regular session, ad interim; Leonidas Jefferson Storey, Democrat, First called session

[edit] House of Representatives

Speaker of the House: John Hughes Cochran, Democrat

[edit] Members

Members of the Sixteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, 14 January 1879:

[edit] Senate

District	Senator	Party	Took office
1	Edwin Hobby	Democrat	1874
2	Peyton Forbes Edwards		1876
3	John W. Motley		1876
4	Walter Riptoe	Republican	1876
5	William H. Tilson		1879
6	William Jesse Swain		1879
7	John Martin Duncan		1879
8	John Young Gooch		1879
9	Charles D. Grace		1876
10	John C. Buchanan		1879
11	William Blassingame		1876
12	William D. Lair	Democrat	1879 (Prior: 1861–1863)
13	Robert S. Guy		1876
14	Francis Marion Martin	Democrat	1879 (Prior: 1859–1861)
15	Thomas J. McCulloch		1876
16	James R. Burnett		1876
17	Walter Moses Burton	Republican	1874
18	Charles Stewart		1879
19	Andrew Phelps McCormick	Republican	1876
20	William Kercheval Homan		1879
21	William M. Brown		1876
22	John W. Moore	Democrat	1876 (Prior: 1861–1865)
23	William R. Shannon	Democrat	1879 (Prior: 1865–1867)
24	Jewett H. Davenport		1879 (Prior: 1874–1876)
25	Alexander Watkins Terrell	Democrat	1876
26	William Hamilton Ledbetter		1874
27	Samuel C. Patton		1879
28	Ellsberry R. Lane		1876
29	John Salmon “Rip” Ford	Democrat	1876 (Prior: 1851–1853)
30	Augustus W. Houston	Democrat	1879
31	Leonidas Jefferson Storey	Democrat	1876

[edit] House of Representatives

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Benjamin M. Baker
Thomas Beck
William Bell
Guy Morrison Bryan
William Clemens
John Hughes Cochran
James N. English
R. J. Evans
George Finlay
Jacob E. Freeman
Samuel Frost
Caleb Jackson Garrison
Charles Reese Gibson
Bedford G. Guy
William Kercheval Homan
Elias Mayes
George Pickett
Joseph Benjamin Polley
Alonzo Sledge
Ashbel Smith
Felix Ezell Smith
M. D. K. Taylor
Robert H. Taylor
Benjamin Franklin Williams
Charles Louis Wurzbach

[edit] Membership Changes

District	Outgoing Senator	Reason for Vacancy	Successor	Date of Successor's Installation
District 1	Edwin Hobby	Hobby resigned 10 July 1879.	Vacant
District 2	Peyton Forbes Edwards	resigned 4 December 1871.	Vacant
District 15	Thomas J. McCulloch	McCulloch resigned 3 September 1879.	Vacant
District 16	James R. Burnett	Burnett resigned 9 October 1879.	John T. Buchanan^[1]	after 17 February 1880
District 19	Andrew Phelps McCormick	McCormick resigned 12 April 1879.	Robert Gould Street	10 June 1879
District 20	William Kercheval Homan	Homan resigned 9 July 1879.	William Kercheval Homan	after 17 February 1880
District 29	John Salmon “Rip” Ford	Ford resigned 30 August 1879.	Vacant