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18th Texas Legislature


The 18th Texas Legislature met from January 9, 1883 to February 6, 1884 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 the 1882 general election.

Sessions

  • 18th Regular session: January 9–April 13, 1883
  • 18th First called session: January 8–February 6, 1884

Officers

Senate

; Lieutenant Governor : Francis Marion Martin, Democrat ; President pro tempore : Augustus W. Houston, Democrat, Regular session : Samuel Bronson Cooper, Democrat, ad interim, First called session

House of Representatives

; Speaker of the House : Charles Reese Gibson, Democrat

Members

Members of the Eighteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, January 9, 1883:

Senate

DistrictSenatorPartyTook office12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031
Samuel Bronson CooperDemocrat1881
Frank L. Johnson1883
William Henry PopeDemocrat1883
John A. Peacock1883
E. A. King1883
John C. Buchanan1879
John Young Gooch1879
Mansel Y. Randolph1883
James W. Jones1883
Asa E. Stratton, Jr.1883
Samuel C. Patton1879
Alvah Chesley1883
John P. Fowler1883
James S. Perry1883
Lochlin Johnson Farrar1883
Barnett GibbsDemocrat1883
John Johnson1883
William O. Davis1882
Avery L. Matlock1883
William R. ShannonDemocrat1879 (Prior: 1865–1867)
William H. Getzendaner1883
John A. Martin1883
Andrew Jackson Harris1881
Alexander Watkins TerrellDemocrat1876
George Pfeuffer1883
Rudolph Kleberg1883
Norman G. Collins1883
Augustus W. HoustonDemocrat1879
James Richard FlemingDemocrat1883
John Henry Traylor1883
William A. Evans1883

House of Representatives

  • Benjamin M. Baker
  • William John Caven
  • R. J. Evans
  • George Finlay
  • George Washington Lafayette Fly
  • Lafayette Lumpkin Foster
  • Charles Reese Gibson
  • Andrew Jackson Harris
  • William Kercheval Homan
  • Joseph Chappell Hutcheson
  • John Marks Moore
  • Absolom C. Oliver
  • George C. Pendleton—District 24
  • Thomas A. Rodríguez
  • George Robertson Reeves
  • Benjamin Dudley Tarlton
  • George T. Todd
  • Arthur Tompkins
  • John Henry Traylor
  • James W. Truitt
  • William Wallace Weatherred
  • Charles Louis Wurzbach
  • G. W. Wyatt
  • Alexander John Leo

Membership changes

DistrictOutgoing
SenatorReason for VacancySuccessorDate of Successor's InstallationDistrict 10District 19
Asa E. Stratton, Jr.Stratton resigned May 14, 1884.*Vacant*
Avery L. MatlockMatlock resigned September 24, 1884.*Vacant*
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