Fourteenth Texas Legislature

The Fourteenth Texas Legislature met from January 13, 1874 to March 15, 1875 in two regular sessions. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1873.

Sessions

*14th First regular session: January 13–May 4, 1874
*14th Second regular session: January 12–March 15, 1875

Party summary

Officers

Senate

; Lieutenant Governor
: Richard Bennett Hubbard, Jr.
; President ''pro tempore'' (Lieutenant Governor ''ex officio'')
: Edward Bradford Pickett, Democrat

House of Representatives

; Speaker of the House
: Guy Morrison Bryan, Democrat

Members

Members of the Fourteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, January 13, 1874:

Senate

* Benjamin Cromwell Franklin was elected, but died on December 25, 1873, 2½ weeks before the start of the Regular Session.

House of Representatives

* David Abner, Sr.
* Decimus et Ultimus Barziza
* Thomas Beck
* Joseph Brown
* Ed Brown
* Guy Morrison Bryan
* John Hughes Cochran
* William Shelby Delaney
* James Eastland
* Lochlin Johnson Farrar
* Jacob E. Freeman
* James L. German
* James Marshall Harrison
* Thomas Hayes
* John Mitchell
* William Wilson Patrick, Robertson County
* Frank Rainey
* Meshack Roberts
* Lieuen Morgan Rogers
* Felix Ezell Smith
* Charles Bellinger Tate Stewart
* William Jesse Swain
* John Files Tom
*George Pickett
* William Amos Wortham

Membership Changes

* District 16: Shepard elected in special election February 17, 1874, seated March 26, 1874 after election contest with Matthew Gaines

External links

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