Sixteenth Texas Legislature
- Sixteenth Texas Legislature
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.
essions
*16th Regular session: 14 January–24 April 1879
*16th First called session: 10 June–9 July 1879
Party summary
Officers
enate
; Lieutenant Governor: Joseph Draper Sayers, Democrat; President "pro tempore": Edwin Hobby, Democrat, Regular session, "ad interim": Leonidas Jefferson Storey, Democrat, First called session
House of Representatives
; Speaker of the House: John Hughes Cochran, Democrat
Members
Members of the Sixteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, 14 January 1879:
enate
House of Representatives
*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
Membership Changes
* District 16: Buchanan was elected in special election 17 February 1880
* District 20: Homan was reelected in special election 17 February 1880
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