Fifteenth Texas Legislature
- Fifteenth Texas Legislature
The Fifteenth Texas Legislature met from 18 April to 21 August 1876 in its regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1875.
essions
*15th Regular session: 18 April–21 August 1876
Party summary
Officers
enate
; Lieutenant Governor: Richard Bennett Hubbard, Jr., Democrat; President "pro tempore": Wells Thompson, Democrat
House of Representatives
; Speaker of the House: Thomas Reuben Bonner, Democrat
Members
Members of the Fifteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, 18 April 1876:
enate
House of Representatives
*Robert D. Allison
*Benjamin M. Baker
*Decimus et Ultimus Barziza
*Thomas Reuben Bonner
*John Hughes Cochran
*Nicholas Henry Darnell
*Thomas Mason Dennis
*Caleb Jackson Garrison
*John Summerfield Griffith
*William H. Holland
*Alexander Horton
*William W. Lang
*Norton Moses
*George Pickett
*Meshack Roberts
*Henry Sneed
*Elias Charles Stuart
*Thomas Towles
*Allen W. Wilderref|wilder
*Charles Louis Wurzbach
Representative Wilder won a closely contested election, but House Democrats contended that some votes were illegal and seated his Democratic opponent instead.
Membership changes
*ref|tl16 Sworn in at the beginning of the Sixteenth Texas Legislature.
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