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19th Texas Legislature


The 19th Texas Legislature met from January 13 to March 31, 1885 in its regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1884 General Election.

Sessions

  • 19th Regular session: January 13–March 31, 1885

Party summary

Officers

Senate

; Lieutenant Governor : Barnett Gibbs, Democrat ; President pro tempore : William R. Shannon, Democrat, Regular session : Constantine Buckley "Buck" Kilgore, Democrat, ad interim

House of Representatives

; Speaker of the House : Lafayette Lumpkin Foster, Democrat

Members

Members of the Nineteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, January 13, 1885:

Senate

DistrictSenatorPartyTook office12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031
William L. Douglass1885
Caleb Jackson Garrison1885
William Henry PopeDemocrat1883
John A. Peacock1883
Samuel D. Stinson1885
John Lafayette Camp, Jr.1885
Constantine Buckley "Buck" KilgoreDemocrat1885
Mansel Y. Randolph1883
James W. Jones1883
W. M. Jerdone1885
John Woods1885
Hermann Knittel1885
John P. Fowler1883
James S. Perry1883
Lochlin Johnson Farrar1883
J. O. Terrell1885
John Johnson1883
William O. Davis1882
Temple Lea Houston1885
William R. ShannonDemocrat1879 (Prior: 1865–1867)
William H. Getzendaner1883
Richard H. Harrison1885
Charles Keith Bell1885
George Washington Glasscock, Jr.1885
George Pfeuffer1883
Rudolph Kleberg1883
E. F. Hall1885
Augustus W. HoustonDemocrat1879
James Henry Calhoun1885
John Henry Traylor1883
William A. Evans1883

House of Representatives

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

  • Frank P. Alexander
  • William T. Armistead
  • Edwin Augustus Atlee
  • Milton Stanhope Austin
  • John Bailey
  • Joseph Weir Barnett
  • John Andrew Virgil Barton
  • William Beard
  • Charles C. Bell
  • Oscar B. Bergstrom
  • William Preston Bishop
  • Kenneth Royal Blackshear
  • James P. Blount
  • Stephen William Blount
  • Robert Joseph Brailsford
  • James Browning
  • Angero Grey Camp
  • Benjamin M. Camp
  • Daniel Milton Carleton
  • William John Caven
  • William Richard Cavitt
  • Gideon Christian
  • William D. Cochran (politician)
  • James Henry Combs
  • Thomas Chappel Cook
  • Zachariah Ellis Coombs
  • James Robb Cowles
  • George Russell Craft
  • Martin McNulty Crane
  • Nehemiah Andrew Cravens
  • Daniel Chambers Darroch
  • Benjamin F. Davis
  • George Washington Donalson
  • James Henry Faubion
  • Lorenzo Clarke Fisher
  • Lafayette Lumpkin Foster
  • Robert Coleman Foster
  • Frank Bailey Greenwood
  • Adolph Carl Ludwig Groos
  • Addison Yancey Gunter
  • Robert T. Hailey
  • William Oscar Hamilton
  • William Powell Hancock
  • Harry Haynes
  • David Thomas Hearne
  • Travis Clark Henderson
  • Joseph Wesley Humphrey
  • George Francis Ingraham
  • James Marion Jolley
  • Edward A. Jones
  • J. Ras Jones
  • William Henry Jones
  • Thomas W. Kennedy
  • John Powell Key
  • Robert Snead Kimbrough
  • John Rhodes King
  • Francis William Latham
  • Thomas Hamilton Lenox
  • Edward Daniel Linn
  • William Henry Lockett
  • Jesse P. Loving
  • Marcellus French Lowe
  • William McGaughey
  • Andrew Todd McKinney
  • John Guilford McReynolds
  • William Thomas Meriwether
  • Edward Taylor Moore
  • Robert J. Moore
  • Philander Burr Muse
  • William Butler Page
  • George Cassety Pendleton
  • William Smartt Pendleton
  • Samuel Porter Pounders
  • Alexis Theodore Rainey
  • John A. Ramsdell
  • James M. Robinson
  • James R. Robinson
  • John W. Rountree
  • Whitfield Scott
  • Frank W. Simmons
  • Felix Ezell Smith
  • Robert E. Steele
  • Charles Frederick Stevens
  • James H. Stewart
  • Marshall Tankersley
  • Benjamin Dudley Tarlton
  • Horatio Lorenzo Tate
  • Alsey Marcellus Taylor
  • William Lafayette Thompson
  • William Harrison Tipton
  • George Isbell Turnley
  • Ammon Underwood
  • William Felton Upton
  • Armistead Elisha Watson
  • Joseph T. Webb
  • Missouri Henneger Whaley
  • James Knox White
  • Benjamin Franklin Williams
  • Richard Henry Wood
  • James Stanton Woods
  • Elijah Fisk Yeager

Membership Changes

Senate

DistrictOutgoing
senatorReason for vacancySuccessorDate of successor's installationDistrict 7District 25District 26District 27
Constantine Buckley "Buck" KilgoreKilgore resigned October 23, 1886 to seek election to the Fiftieth United States Congress*Vacant*
George PfeufferPfeuffer died September 15, 1886*Vacant*
Rudolph KlebergKleberg resigned September 9, 1886*Vacant*
E. F. HallHall died April 28, 1886*Vacant*

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