The Seventeenth Texas Legislature met from January 11, 1881 to May 5, 1882 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 1880 General Election.
17th Regular session: January 11–April 1, 1881
17th First called session: April 6–May 5, 1882
Lieutenant Governor
Leonidas Jefferson Storey, Democrat
President pro tempore
Edwin Hobby, Democrat, Regular session
Francis Marion Martin, Democrat,
ad interim, First called session
Speaker of the House
George Robertson Reeves, Democrat
Members of the Seventeenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, January 11, 1881:
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
Felix J. McCord
Absolom C. Oliver
Henry Joseph Richarz
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
