The Eighth Texas Legislature met from November 7, 1859 to April 9, 1861 in its regular session, a first called session, and an adjourned session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1859.
8th Regular session: November 7, 1859 – February 13, 1860
8th First called session: January 21–February 9, 1861
8th Adjourned session: March 18–April 9, 1861
Lieutenant Governor
Edward Clark, Democrat
President pro tempore
Jesse Grimes, Democrat, Regular session
Speaker of the House
M. D. K. Taylor, Democrat
Members of the Eighth Texas Legislature at the beginning of the regular session, November 7, 1859:
Basilio Benavides
Anthony Martin Branch
Kindallis Bryan
Constantine W. Buckley
William Clark
David B. Culberson
Nicholas Henry Darnell
Isaac N. Dennis
David Catchings Dickson
Edward Dougherty
Foscue
James Carlton Francis
Benjamin Cromwell Franklin
De Witt Clinton Fort
Lindsay Hagler, San Patricio County
James Marshall Harrison
J. W. Henderson
Alfred Marmaduke Hobby
Richard Bennett Hubbard, Jr.
Henry Lawrence Kinney
Francis J. Lynch
John Haywood Manley
Samuel Maverick
John N. McClarty
George McKnight
Roger Q. Mills
William Wright Morris
Titus H. Mundine
José Ángel Navarro
Allison Nelson
Benjamin F. Parker
Samuel Redgate
Joel Walter Robison
Shelton
Daniel McDowell Short
John Dennis Stell
M. D. K. Taylor
Robert H. Taylor
Robert J. Townes
Jacob Waelder
Charles A. Warfield
George Washington Whitmore
William Amos Wortham
Friedrich Wilhelm von Wrede, Jr.
^ District 15: Sexton did not return from Confederate States Army service in time to meet with the legislature.
^ District 25: Shelley elected in special election held March 25, 1861 and sworn in with the Ninth Texas Legislature.
