The Eighteenth 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.
18th Regular session: January 9–April 13, 1883
18th First called session: January 8–February 6, 1884
Lieutenant Governor
Francis Marion Martin, Democrat
President pro tempore
Augustus W. Houston, Democrat, Regular session
Samuel Bronson Cooper, Democrat,
ad interim, First called session
Speaker of the House
Charles Reese Gibson, Democrat
Members of the Eighteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, January 9, 1883:
Benjamin M. Baker
Thomas Beck
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
Robert A. Kerr
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
