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Second Texas Legislature

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The Second Texas Legislature met from December 13, 1847 to March 20, 1848 in regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1847.

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Sessions

  • 2nd Regular session: December 13, 1847 – March 20, 1848
  • Senate

    Lieutenant Governor
    John Alexander Greer, Democrat
    President pro tempore
    Edward Burleson, Democrat

    House of Representatives

    Speaker of the House 
    James Wilson Henderson, Democrat

    Senate

    Members of the Texas Senate for the Second Texas Legislature:

  • ^ Bourland was a floating senator “conjointly” elected from Bowie, Red River, Fannin, and Lamar counties
  • House of Representatives

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

  • James Armstrong
  • John D. Anderson
  • William H. Bourland, Democrat
  • Guy Morrison Bryan, Democrat
  • Jacob Raphael De Cordova
  • Benjamin Holland Epperson
  • Samuel G. Haynie
  • James Wilson Henderson, Democrat
  • Charles G. Keenan, Democrat
  • Mirabeau B. Lamar
  • Emory Rains, Democrat
  • John Henninger Reagan, Democrat
  • Thomas Jefferson Shannon
  • Adolphus Sterne
  • James Truitt, Democrat
  • References

    Second Texas Legislature Wikipedia