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Fourth Texas Legislature

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The Fourth Texas Legislature met from November 3, 1851 to February 7, 1853 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 1850.

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Sessions

  • 4th Regular session: November 3, 1851 – February 16, 1852
  • 4th First called session: January 10–February 7, 1853
  • Senate

    Lieutenant Governor
    James Wilson Henderson, Democrat
    President pro tempore
    Edward Burleson[1], Democrat, Regular session Jesse Grimes, Democrat, Regular session, First called session
  • ^ Senator Burleson died during the regular session on December 26, 1851.
  • House of Representatives

    Speaker of the House 
    David Catchings Dickson, Democrat

    Add to Representatives: Issac B. McFarland, Democrat, elected in 1851 from La Grange, Fayette County

    Sources: several obituaries,family history, list of One Hundrth Anniversary of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas

    Senate

    Members of the Texas Senate for the Fourth Texas Legislature:

    House of Representatives

    Members of the House of Representatives for the Fourth Texas Legislature:

  • Hamilton P. Bee
  • Guy Morrison Bryan, Democrat
  • David Catchings Dickson, Democrat
  • Randolph C. Doom, Democrat
  • Memucan Hunt, Jr., Democrat
  • William G. W. Jowers, Democrat
  • William H. Johnson, Democrat
  • Evans Mabry, Democrat
  • Robert Simpson Neighbors, Democrat
  • John Patrick
  • Robert Peebles, Democrat
  • Emory Rains, Democrat
  • James Rowe,?
  • Hardin Richard Runnels, Democrat
  • Charles Bellinger Tate Stewart, Democrat
  • Benjamin E. Tarver, Democrat
  • Robert H. Taylor, Democrat
  • Andrew Jackson Titus, Democrat
  • Amasa Turner, Democrat
  • References

    Fourth Texas Legislature Wikipedia