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21st Texas Legislature

The 21st Texas Legislature met from January 8 to April 6, 1889, in regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and a portion of the members of the Senate were elected in the 1888 general election.

Sessions

  • 20th Regular session: January 8, 1889 – April 6, 1889

Party summary

House of Representatives

AffiliationMembersNote**Total****94**
Democratic Party90
Republican Party3
Independent1

Officers

Senate

  • Lieutenant Governor: Thomas Benton Wheeler, Democrat
  • President pro tempore:
    • Henry D. McDonald, Democrat, Regular session
    • William H. Burges, Democrat, ad interim

House of Representatives

  • Speaker of the House: Frank P. Alexander, Democrat

Members

Senate

Members of the Texas Senate for the Twenty-first Texas Legislature:

  • Leonard Anderson Abercrombie, Democrat
  • William Allen, Unaffiliated
  • William T. Armistead, Democrat
  • Edwin Augustus Atlee, Democrat
  • William H. Burges, Democrat
  • Robert H. Burney, Democrat
  • John Marshall Claiborne, Democrat
  • John Walter Cranford, Democrat
  • William Wallace Davis, Democrat
  • Elbridge Geary Douglass, Democrat
  • Scott Field, Democrat
  • Louis Napoleon Frank, Democrat
  • George Washington Glasscock, Jr., Unaffiliated
  • John H. Harrison, Democrat
  • James Melville Ingram, Democrat
  • James J. Jarvis, Democrat
  • William C. "Cone" Johnson, Democrat
  • R.S. Kimbrough, Democrat
  • Jonathan Lane, Democrat
  • Ernst Gustav Maetze, Democrat
  • Henry D. McDonald, Democrat
  • Robert Morris, Democrat
  • William Henry Pope, Democrat
  • Kennan Benjamin Seale, Democrat
  • Henry Taylor Sims, Democrat
  • John Hall Stephens, Democrat
  • M.H. Townsend, Democrat
  • George W. Tyler, Democrat
  • Samuel Crockett Upshaw, Democrat
  • William H. Woodward, Democrat

House of Representatives

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

DistrictRepresentativeCityCountyPartyTook office
1Jerome SwinfordOrangeOrangeDemocratJanuary 8, 1889
2Travis Spraggin CochranColitaPolkDemocratJanuary 8, 1889
3Henry R. RalphLewis FerryJasperDemocratJanuary 8, 1889
4James Linn CrosslandDouglassNacogdochesDemocratJanuary 8, 1889 (prior: 1879–1881)
5John P. ChildersSan AugustineSan AugustineDemocratJanuary 8, 1889
6Robert Teague MilnerHendersonRuskDemocratJanuary 11, 1887
7J. Ras JonesPinehillPanolaDemocratJanuary 13, 1885
8George Alexander NewtonMount SelmanCherokeeDemocratJanuary 11, 1887 (prior: 1883–1885)
9Joseph Addison JohnsonBethelAndersonDemocrat1889
10Joseph Blakey BishopAthensHendersonDemocrat1889
11Abram Dallas MartinPittsburgCampDemocrat1889
12Benjamin Green SelmanTylerSmithDemocrat1889
13William Filmore MurchisonAugaHoustonDemocrat1889 (prior: 1895–1897)
14Alexander J. PopeMarshallHarrisonDemocrat1887
15Louis P. WilsonMarshallHarrisonDemocrat1889 (prior: 1883–1885)
16Lucius Adolphus WhatleyAtlantaCassDemocrat1887
17James Dudley CarwileAtlantaCassDemocrat1889
Blair McGeeNew BostonBowieDemocrat1889
18Albert S. BaileyDetroitRed RiverDemocrat1889
19William Joseph JohnsonMount PleasantTitusDemocrat1889
20Mordecai James HathawayParisLamarDemocrat1889
21William Jordan HoodSavoyFanninDemocrat1889
22Thomas Henry HayesParisLamarDemocrat1889 (prior: 1874–1876)
23George Jefferson WoodruffRacetrackDeltaDemocrat1889
24John McCullough MelsonPicktonHopkinsDemocrat1887
25Frank P. AlexanderGreenvilleHuntDemocrat1885
26Thomas Jefferson TowlesCantonVan ZandtDemocrat1889 (prior: 1876–1879)
27John Haywood TolbertHoweGraysonDemocrat1887
Thomas Jefferson BrownShermanGraysonDemocrat1889
28Robert Donaldson AllisonMcKinneyCollinDemocrat1889 (prior: 1876–1879, 1884–1885)
29Joseph Warren JagoeDentonDentonDemocrat1889
30James William CampbellGainesvilleCookeDemocrat1889
31Jesse Craft MurrellCoesfieldCookeDemocrat1889
32Alvin Clark OwsleyDentonDentonDemocrat1889
33Jesse Munroe StrongDallasDallasDemocrat1887
James Franklin RowlandRichardsonDallasDemocrat1889
34Isaac Duke ParkerBirdvilleTarrantDemocrat1889
35James W. CraytonFateRockwallDemocrat1889
36Andrew Jackson BrownAlvaradoJohnsonDemocrat1889
37William Lee WoodPalmerEllisDemocrat1887
38James McCullough WilsonWhitneyHillDemocrat1889
39Samuel Romulus FrostCorsicanaNavarroDemocrat1889 (prior: 1879–1881)
40William McGaugheyGranburyHoodDemocrat1885
Jesse JenkinsMeridianBosqueDemocrat1889
41John Alexander HudsonMarmadukeWiseDemocrat1889
42Charles Ulrich ConnelleeEastlandEastlandDemocrat1889
43Alfred TolarAbileneTaylorDemocrat1889
44Rufus Burrow LankfordBowieMontagueDemocrat1889
45George Bibb PickettDecaturWiseDemocrat1889 (prior: 1874–1881)
46Albert StevensonWeatherfordParkerDemocrat1889
47James Eldrage DillardKaufmanKaufmanDemocrat1889
48Alexander AsberryCalvertRobertsonRepublican1889
49William Ambrose Sevier CobbRogers PrairieLeonDemocrat1889
50Elias MayesBryanBrazosRepublican1889 (prior: 1879–1881)
51Henry Lee LewisHearneRobertsonDemocrat1889
52William Leonidas CampbellAndersonGrimesDemocrat1889
53James Wesson ParkerRichmondFort BendDemocrat1887
54James A. BreedingHoustonHarrisDemocrat1889
William Wyatt DawsonTrinityTrinityDemocrat1889
William Perry McCombMontgomeryMontgomeryDemocrat1889
55James Wright CookMooresvilleFallsIndependent1889
56Benjamin Josephus RoopTempleBellDemocrat1889
57James Madison McKinneyJones PrairieMilamDemocrat1885
58James Isom MoodyMexiaLimestoneDemocrat1889
59George Walton WhiteDewFreestoneDemocrat1889
60Jehu BrownKerensNavarroDemocrat1889
61Seth Phineas MillsSpeeglevilleMcLennanDemocrat1887 (prior: 1879–1881)
62William Abraham KincaidGroesbeckLimestoneDemocrat1889
63Crocket McDonald KingLeon JunctionCoryellDemocrat1889
64Guy Morrison BryanGalvestonGalvestonDemocrat1888 (prior: 1847–1853, 1874–1876, 1879–1881)
65Walter GreshamGalvestonGalvestonDemocrat1887
66Richard Henry Douglass Sorrell IIWhartonWhartonDemocrat1889
67Ibzan William MiddlebrookColumbusColoradoDemocrat1889
68Robert Watson ThompsonNelsonvilleAustinDemocrat1889
69James Franklin OvertonHackberryLavacaDemocrat1889
70James Foster McGuireLedbetterFayetteDemocrat1887
Charles B. WelhausenFlatoniaFayetteDemocrat1889
71Myers FelderChappell HillWashingtonDemocrat1889
72Jacob A. FieldsGiddingsLeeDemocrat1889
73James Madison RenickLexingtonLeeDemocrat1889
74James M. RobinsonRed RockBastropDemocrat1889 (prior: 1883–1887)
75Felix Ezell SmithBluff SpringsTravisDemocrat1889 (prior: 1874–1876, 1879–1881, 1883–1887)
William Robert HambyAustinTravisDemocrat1889
76Norton MosesStricklingBurnetDemocrat1889 (prior: 1876–1879)
77Martin McFerrin HancockGoldthwaiteBrownDemocrat1889
78James Henry FaubionLeanderWilliamsonDemocrat1885
79Simeon WhittedBowser BendSan SabaDemocrat1889
80George Bush StevensonEl PasoEl PasoDemocrat1889
81Blucher ErskineDerbyFrioDemocrat1889
82Wilbur McDonaldStockdaleWilsonDemocrat1889
83Thomas W. KennedyRio Grande CityStarrDemocrat1885
Albert UrbahnLaredoWebbDemocrat1889
84William A. WilliamsonJunction CityKimbleDemocrat1889
85John J. RhodesMillettLa SalleDemocrat1889
86David Crawford RobinsonSan AntonioBexarDemocrat1887
William Frederick MillerConverseBexarDemocrat1889
87Edward LeGrand DunlapVictoriaVictoriaDemocrat1889
Vachel WeldonCueroDeWittDemocrat1889
88Robert Byron RentfroBrownsvilleCameronRepublican1889
89William ClemensNew BraunfelsComalDemocrat1889 (prior: 1879–1881)
90James William PeeblesLeesvilleGonzalesDemocrat1889
91Jacob Lewis EllisonMartindaleCaldwellDemocrat1887
George McGeheeSan MarcosHaysDemocrat1887
92William HamblenHoustonHarrisDemocrat1889
93Richard Butt LevyLongviewGreggDemocrat1889
94Joseph Wesley HumphreyPointRainsDemocrat1889 (prior: 1885–1887)

These are multimember or flotorial districts.

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