The Thirteenth Texas Legislature met from January 14 to June 4, 1873 in its regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1872.
13th Regular session: January 14–June 4, 1873
Lieutenant Governor
Vacant
President pro tempore (Lieutenant Governor ex officio)
Edward Bradford Pickett, Democrat
Speaker of the House
M. D. K. Taylor, Democrat
Members of the Thirteenth Texas Legislature at the beginning of the Regular Session, January 14, 1873:
C. L. Abbott
John Adriance
Richard Allen[1], Republican
James Monroe Anderson
James Armstrong
A. S. Broaddus
John Henry Brown
Gustave Cook
John Cunningham
James Eastland
W. A. Ellett
[Henry Clay Ghent, M.D. (Seventeenth District, including Bell and Milam Counties)]
James Marshall Harrison
John Ireland
Marcellus E. Kleberg
Henry Moore
Stephen Powers
Davis M. Prendergast
Frank Rainey
Meshack Roberts
Chauncey B. Sabin
George Washington Smith
M. D. K. Taylor
Alfred Sturgis Thurmond
Joseph Albert Tivy
Khleber Miller Van Zandt
James H. Washington
Allen W. Wilder
Richard Williams
^ Representative Allen was apparently re-elected, but House Democrats alleged voting fraud and seated his Democratic opponent instead.
