Fourth Texas Legislature

The Fourth Texas Legislature met from 3 November 1851 to 7 February 1853 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 1850.

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 External links

Sessions

4th Regular session: 3 November 1851–16 February 1852
4th First called session: 10 January–7 February 1853

Party summary

Officers

Senate

Lieutenant Governor: James Wilson Henderson, Democrat
President pro tempore: Edward Burleson^[1], Democrat, Regular session; Jesse Grimes, Democrat, Regular session, First called session

^ Senator Burleson died during the regular session on 26 December 1851.

House of Representatives

Speaker of the House: David Catchings Dickson, Democrat

Members

Senate

Members of the Texas Senate for the Fourth Texas Legislature:

District	Senator	Party	Took office
1	Joseph H. Burks	Democrat	1851
2	William M. “Buckskin” Williams	Democrat	1851 (First time:1846–1849)
3	Sam Bogart	Democrat	1851
4	Hart Hardin	Democrat	1849
5	M. D. K. Taylor	Democrat	1851
6	George Washington Hill	Democrat	1851
7	Isaac Parker	Democrat	1847
8	Stephen Reaves	Democrat	1851
9	William Thomas Scott	Democrat	1851 (First time:1846–1847)
10	Z. Williams Eddy	Democrat	1851
11	Adolphus Sterne	Democrat	1851
12	James A. Truitt	Democrat	1851
13	James Davis	Democrat	1851
14	James H. Armstrong	Democrat	1851
15	Jesse Grimes	Democrat	1846
16	William S. Day	Democrat	1851
17	Peter W. Gray	Democrat	1851
18	Franklin H. Merriman	Democrat	1851
19	James Charles Wilson	Democrat	1851
20	John Winfield Scott Dancy	Democrat	1851 (First time:1847–1849)
21	Edward Burleson	Democrat	1846
22	Baron Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach	Democrat	1851
23	Thomas Hinds Duggan	Democrat	1851
24	Israel B. Bigelow	Democrat	1851
25	Henry Lawrence Kinney	Democrat	1846
26	Rufus Doane	Democrat	1851

House of Representatives

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

Hamilton P. Bee
Guy Morrison Bryan, Democrat
David Catchings Dickson, Democrat
Randolph C. Doom, Democrat
Memucan Hunt, Jr., Democrat
William G. W. Jowers, Democrat
William H. Johnson, Democrat
Evans Mabry, Democrat
Robert Simpson Neighbors, Democrat
John Patrick
Robert Peebles, Democrat
Emory Rains, Democrat
James Rowe,?
Hardin Richard Runnels, Democrat
Charles Bellinger Tate Stewart, Democrat
Benjamin E. Tarver, Democrat
Robert H. Taylor, Democrat
Andrew Jackson Titus, Democrat
Amasa Turner, Democrat

Membership Changes

Senate

District	Outgoing Senator	Reason for Vacancy	Successor	Date of Successor's Installation
District 11	Adolphus Sterne	Senator Sterne died 27 March 1852.	Steward Alexander Miller	20 January 1852
District 18	Franklin H. Merriman	Senator Merriman resigned 31 August 1852.	Mark M. Potter	20 January 1852
District 21	Edward Burleson	Senator Burleson died 26 December 1851.	John Salmon “Rip” Ford	20 January 1852