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Fifteenth Texas Legislature

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The Fifteenth Texas Legislature met from April 18 to August 21, 1876 in its regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1875.

Contents

Sessions

  • 15th Regular session: April 18 – August 21, 1876

    • Senate

    Lieutenant Governor
    Richard Bennett Hubbard, Jr., Democrat
    President pro tempore
    Wells Thompson, Democrat

    House of Representatives

    Speaker of the House
    Thomas Reuben Bonner, Democrat

    Members

    Members of the Fifteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, April 18, 1876:

    House of Representatives

  • Robert D. Allison
  • Benjamin M. Baker
  • Decimus et Ultimus Barziza
  • Thomas Reuben Bonner
  • John Hughes Cochran
  • Nicholas Henry Darnell
  • Thomas Mason Dennis
  • Caleb Jackson Garrison
  • John Summerfield Griffith
  • William H. Holland
  • Alexander Horton
  • William W. Lang
  • Norton Moses
  • George Pickett
  • Meshack Roberts
  • Henry Sneed
  • Elias Charles Stuart
  • Thomas Towles
  • John Quitman Wall
  • Allen W. Wilder[1]
  • Charles Louis Wurzbach

    • ^ Representative Wilder won a closely contested election, but House Democrats contended that some votes were illegal and seated his Democratic opponent instead.

    Membership changes

  • [4] Sworn in at the beginning of the Sixteenth Texas Legislature.

    • References

    Fifteenth Texas Legislature Wikipedia
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