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
Affiliation | Members | Note |
---|---|---|
Democratic Party | 90 | |
Republican Party | 3 | |
Independent | 1 | |
Total | 94 |
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:
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) |
- 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:
District | Representative | City | County | Party | Took Office |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jerome Swinford | Orange | Orange | Democrat | January 8, 1889 |
2 | Travis Spraggin Cochran | Colita | Polk | Democrat | January 8, 1889 |
3 | Henry R. Ralph | Lewis Ferry | Jasper | Democrat | January 8, 1889 |
4 | James Linn Crossland | Douglass | Nacogdoches | Democrat | January 8, 1889 (prior: 1879–1881) |
5 | John P. Childers | San Augustine | San Augustine | Democrat | January 8, 1889 |
6 | Robert Teague Milner | Henderson | Rusk | Democrat | January 11, 1887 |
7 | J. Ras Jones | Pinehill | Panola | Democrat | January 13, 1885 |
8 | George Alexander Newton | Mount Selman | Cherokee | Democrat | January 11, 1887 (prior: 1883–1885) |
9 | Joseph Addison Johnson | Bethel | Anderson | Democrat | 1889 |
10 | Joseph Blakey Bishop | Athens | Henderson | Democrat | 1889 |
11 | Abram Dallas Martin | Pittsburg | Camp | Democrat | 1889 |
12 | Benjamin Green Selman | Tyler | Smith | Democrat | 1889 |
13 | William Filmore Murchison | Auga | Houston | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1895–1897) |
14 | Alexander J. Pope | Marshall | Harrison | Democrat | 1887 |
15 | Louis P. Wilson | Marshall | Harrison | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1883–1885) |
16 | Lucius Adolphus Whatley | Atlanta | Cass | Democrat | 1887 |
17[1] | James Dudley Carwile | Atlanta | Cass | Democrat | 1889 |
Blair McGee | New Boston | Bowie | Democrat | 1889 | |
18 | Albert S. Bailey | Detroit | Red River | Democrat | 1889 |
19 | William Joseph Johnson | Mount Pleasant | Titus | Democrat | 1889 |
20 | Mordecai James Hathaway | Paris | Lamar | Democrat | 1889 |
21 | William Jordan Hood | Savoy | Fannin | Democrat | 1889 |
22 | Thomas Henry Hayes | Paris | Lamar | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1874–1876) |
23 | George Jefferson Woodruff | Racetrack | Delta | Democrat | 1889 |
24 | John McCullough Melson | Pickton | Hopkins | Democrat | 1887 |
25 | Frank P. Alexander | Greenville | Hunt | Democrat | 1885 |
26 | Thomas Jefferson Towles | Canton | Van Zandt | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1876–1879) |
27[2] | John Haywood Tolbert | Howe | Grayson | Democrat | 1887 |
Thomas Jefferson Brown | Sherman | Grayson | Democrat | 1889 | |
28 | Robert Donaldson Allison | McKinney | Collin | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1876–1879, 1884–1885) |
29 | Joseph Warren Jagoe | Denton | Denton | Democrat | 1889 |
30 | James William Campbell | Gainesville | Cooke | Democrat | 1889 |
31 | Jesse Craft Murrell | Coesfield | Cooke | Democrat | 1889 |
32 | Alvin Clark Owsley | Denton | Denton | Democrat | 1889 |
33[3] | Jesse Munroe Strong | Dallas | Dallas | Democrat | 1887 |
James Franklin Rowland | Richardson | Dallas | Democrat | 1889 | |
34 | Isaac Duke Parker | Birdville | Tarrant | Democrat | 1889 |
35 | James W. Crayton | Fate | Rockwall | Democrat | 1889 |
36 | Andrew Jackson Brown | Alvarado | Johnson | Democrat | 1889 |
37 | William Lee Wood | Palmer | Ellis | Democrat | 1887 |
38 | James McCullough Wilson | Whitney | Hill | Democrat | 1889 |
39 | Samuel Romulus Frost | Corsicana | Navarro | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1879–1881) |
40[4] | William McGaughey | Granbury | Hood | Democrat | 1885 |
Jesse Jenkins | Meridian | Bosque | Democrat | 1889 | |
41 | John Alexander Hudson | Marmaduke | Wise | Democrat | 1889 |
42 | Charles Ulrich Connellee | Eastland | Eastland | Democrat | 1889 |
43 | Alfred Tolar | Abilene | Taylor | Democrat | 1889 |
44 | Rufus Burrow Lankford | Bowie | Montague | Democrat | 1889 |
45 | George Bibb Pickett | Decatur | Wise | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1874–1881) |
46 | Albert Stevenson | Weatherford | Parker | Democrat | 1889 |
47 | James Eldrage Dillard | Kaufman | Kaufman | Democrat | 1889 |
48 | Alexander Asberry | Calvert | Robertson | Republican | 1889 |
49 | William Ambrose Sevier Cobb | Rogers Prairie | Leon | Democrat | 1889 |
50 | Elias Mayes | Bryan | Brazos | Republican | 1889 (prior: 1879–1881) |
51 | Henry Lee Lewis | Hearne | Robertson | Democrat | 1889 |
52 | William Leonidas Campbell | Anderson | Grimes | Democrat | 1889 |
53 | James Wesson Parker | Richmond | Fort Bend | Democrat | 1887 |
54[5] | James A. Breeding | Houston | Harris | Democrat | 1889 |
William Wyatt Dawson | Trinity | Trinity | Democrat | 1889 | |
William Perry McComb | Montgomery | Montgomery | Democrat | 1889 | |
55 | James Wright Cook | Mooresville | Falls | Independent | 1889 |
56 | Benjamin Josephus Roop | Temple | Bell | Democrat | 1889 |
57 | James Madison McKinney | Jones Prairie | Milam | Democrat | 1885 |
58 | James Isom Moody | Mexia | Limestone | Democrat | 1889 |
59 | George Walton White | Dew | Freestone | Democrat | 1889 |
60 | Jehu Brown | Kerens | Navarro | Democrat | 1889 |
61 | Seth Phineas Mills | Speegleville | McLennan | Democrat | 1887 (prior: 1879–1881) |
62 | William Abraham Kincaid | Groesbeck | Limestone | Democrat | 1889 |
63 | Crocket McDonald King | Leon Junction | Coryell | Democrat | 1889 |
64 | Guy Morrison Bryan | Galveston | Galveston | Democrat | 1888 (prior: 1847–1853, 1874–1876, 1879–1881) |
65 | Walter Gresham | Galveston | Galveston | Democrat | 1887 |
66 | Richard Henry Douglass Sorrell II | Wharton | Wharton | Democrat | 1889 |
67 | Ibzan William Middlebrook | Columbus | Colorado | Democrat | 1889 |
68 | Robert Watson Thompson | Nelsonville | Austin | Democrat | 1889 |
69 | James Franklin Overton | Hackberry | Lavaca | Democrat | 1889 |
70[6] | James Foster McGuire | Ledbetter | Fayette | Democrat | 1887 |
Charles B. Welhausen | Flatonia | Fayette | Democrat | 1889 | |
71 | Myers Felder | Chappell Hill | Washington | Democrat | 1889 |
72 | Jacob A. Fields | Giddings | Lee | Democrat | 1889 |
73 | James Madison Renick | Lexington | Lee | Democrat | 1889 |
74 | James M. Robinson | Red Rock | Bastrop | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1883–1887) |
75[7] | Felix Ezell Smith | Bluff Springs | Travis | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1874–1876, 1879–1881, 1883–1887) |
William Robert Hamby | Austin | Travis | Democrat | 1889 | |
76 | Norton Moses | Strickling | Burnet | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1876–1879) |
77 | Martin McFerrin Hancock | Goldthwaite | Brown | Democrat | 1889 |
78 | James Henry Faubion | Leander | Williamson | Democrat | 1885 |
79 | Simeon Whitted | Bowser Bend | San Saba | Democrat | 1889 |
80 | George Bush Stevenson | El Paso | El Paso | Democrat | 1889 |
81 | Blucher Erskine | Derby | Frio | Democrat | 1889 |
82 | Wilbur McDonald | Stockdale | Wilson | Democrat | 1889 |
83[8] | Thomas W. Kennedy | Rio Grande City | Starr | Democrat | 1885 |
Albert Urbahn | Laredo | Webb | Democrat | 1889 | |
84 | William A. Williamson | Junction City | Kimble | Democrat | 1889 |
85 | John J. Rhodes | Millett | La Salle | Democrat | 1889 |
86[9] | David Crawford Robinson | San Antonio | Bexar | Democrat | 1887 |
William Frederick Miller | Converse | Bexar | Democrat | 1889 | |
87[10] | Edward LeGrand Dunlap | Victoria | Victoria | Democrat | 1889 |
Vachel Weldon | Cuero | DeWitt | Democrat | 1889 | |
88 | Robert Byron Rentfro | Brownsville | Cameron | Republican | 1889 |
89 | William Clemens | New Braunfels | Comal | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1879–1881) |
90 | James William Peebles | Leesville | Gonzales | Democrat | 1889 |
91[11] | Jacob Lewis Ellison | Martindale | Caldwell | Democrat | 1887 |
George McGehee | San Marcos | Hays | Democrat | 1887 | |
92 | William Hamblen | Houston | Harris | Democrat | 1889 |
93 | Richard Butt Levy | Longview | Gregg | Democrat | 1889 |
94 | Joseph Wesley Humphrey | Point | Rains | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1885–1887) |
^ These are multimember or flotorial districts.
Membership Changes
Unknown
External links
- Texas Legislature Online
- Texas Senate
- Texas House of Representatives
- Election Results from the Office of the Secretary of State
- Legislative Reference Library
- v
- t
- e
Texas State Legislatures (and year convened)
- 1 (1846)
- 2 (1847)
- 3 (1849)
- 4 (1851)
- 5 (1853)
- 6 (1855)
- 7 (1857)
- 8 (1859)
- 9 (1861)
- 10 (1863)
- 11 (1866)†
- 12 (1870)†
- 13 (1873)†
- 14 (1874)†
- 15 (1876)†
- 16 (1879)
- 17 (1881)
- 18 (1883)
- 19 (1885)
- 20 (1887)
- 21 (1889)
- 22 (1891)
- 23 (1893)
- 24 (1895)
- 25 (1897)
- 26 (1899)
- 27 (1901)
- 28 (1903)
- 29 (1905)
- 30 (1907)
- 31 (1909)
- 32 (1911)
- 33 (1913)
- 34 (1915)
- 35 (1917)
- 36 (1919)
- 37 (1921)
- 38 (1923)
- 39 (1925)
- 40 (1927)
- 41 (1929)
- 42 (1931)
- 43 (1933)
- 44 (1935)
- 45 (1937)
- 46 (1939)
- 47 (1941)
- 48 (1943)
- 49 (1945)
- 50 (1947)
- 51 (1949)
- 52 (1951)
- 53 (1953)
- 54 (1955)
- 55 (1957)
- 56 (1959)
- 57 (1961)
- 58 (1963)
- 59 (1965)
- 60 (1967)
- 61 (1969)
- 62 (1971)
- 63 (1973)
- 64 (1975)
- 65 (1977)
- 66 (1979)
- 67 (1981)
- 68 (1983)
- 69 (1985)
- 70 (1987)
- 71 (1989)
- 72 (1991)
- 73 (1993)
- 74 (1995)
- 75 (1997)
- 76 (1999)
- 77 (2001)
- 78 (2003)
- 79 (2005)
- 80 (2007)
- 81 (2009)
- 82 (2011)
- 83 (2013)
- 84 (2015)
- 85 (2017)
- 86 (2019)
- 87 (2021)
- 88 (2023)
- 89 (2025)