45th Texas Legislature

Sessions

Regular Session: January 12, 1937 – May 22, 1937

1st Called Session: May 27, 1937 – June 25, 1937

2nd Called Session: September 27, 1937 – October 26, 1937

Party summary

Senate

House

Officers

Senate

• Lieutenant Governor: Walter Frank Woodul (D)
• Presidents Pro Tempore: Regular Session Will D. Pace (D) 1st Called Session – Olan R. Van Zandt (D) 2nd Called Session – Allan Shivers (D)

House

• Speaker of the House: Robert Wilburn Calvert (D)

Members

Senate

Dist. 1

• E. Harold Beck (D), Texarkana

Dist. 2

• Joe Hill (D), Henderson

Dist. 3

• John S. Redditt (D), Lufkin

Dist. 4

• Allan Shivers (D), Port Arthur

Dist. 5

• Gordon Burns (D), Huntsville

Dist. 6

• Clay Cotten (D), Palestine

Dist. 7

• Will D. Pace (D), Tyler

Dist. 8

• A. M. Aiken, Jr. (D), Paris

Dist. 9

• Olin Van Zandt (D), Tioga

Dist. 10

• Claude Isbell (D), Rockwall

Dist. 11

• Claud Westerfield (D), Dallas

Dist. 12

• Vernon Lemmons (D), Waxahachie

Dist. 13

• Doss Hardin (D), Waco

Dist. 14

• Albert Stone (D), Brenham

Dist. 15

• Louis Sulak (D), La Grange

Dist. 16

• Weaver Moore (D), Houston

Dist. 17

• T. J. Holbrook (D), Galveston

Dist. 18

• Morris Roberts (D), Pettus

Dist. 19

• Rudolph A. Weinert (D), Seguin

Dist. 20

• Houghton Brownlee (D), Austin

Dist. 21

• James Manley Head (D), Stephenville

Dist. 22

• H. Grady Woodruff (D), Decatur

Dist. 23

• Ben Oneal (D), Wichita Falls

Dist. 24

• Wilbourne Collie (D), Eastland

Dist. 25

• Ephraim Davis (D), Brownwood

Dist. 26

• J. Franklin Spears (D), San Antonio

Dist. 27

• Jim Neal (D), Mirando City

Dist. 28

• Frank H. Rawlings (D), Fort Worth

Dist. 29

• Henry L. Winfield (D), Fort Stockton

Dist. 30

• G. Hobert Nelson (D), Lubbock

Dist. 31

• C.C. Small (D), Amarillo

House

The House was composed of 150 Democrats.

House members included future Governor Coke R. Stevenson and future State Treasurer Jesse James.

Sources

• Legislative Reference Library of Texas