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.

Sessions

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

Party summary

Officers

Senate

; Lieutenant Governor:

John Alexander Greer John Alexander Greer (July 18, 1802 – July 4, 1855) was a Texas, Texan politician, and the second Lieutenant Governor of Texas serving under Governors George Tyler Wood, George T. Wood and Peter Hansborough Bell, Peter H. Bell. Greer was bo ...

, Democrat ; President ''pro tempore'':

Edward Burleson Edward Burleson (December 15, 1798 – December 26, 1851) was the third vice president of the Republic of Texas. After Texas was annexed to the United States, he served in the State Senate. Prior to his government service in Texas, he was a co ...

, Democrat

House of Representatives

; Speaker of the House :

James Wilson Henderson James Wilson Henderson (August 15, 1817 – August 30, 1880) was the fourth Governor of Texas from November 23, 1853, to December 21, 1853. Biography Born on August 15, 1817, in Sumner County, Tennessee, Henderson moved to Texas when he was ...

, Democrat

Members

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 John D. Anderson Jr. (born October 1, 1937) is the Curator of Aerodynamics at the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., Professor Emeritus in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University ...

* William H. Bourland, Democrat *

Jacob De Cordova Jacob Raphael De Cordova (6 June 1808 – 26 January 1868) was the founder of the ''Jamaica Gleaner''. He settled in Texas in 1839 and lived in Galveston. After living in Galveston, De Cordova moved to Houston, Texas where he was elected ...

* Benjamin Holland Epperson * Samuel G. Haynie *

, Democrat * Charles G. Keenan, Democrat *

Mirabeau B. Lamar Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (August 16, 1798 – December 25, 1859) was an Lawyer, attorney born in Georgia, who became a Texas politician, poet, diplomat, and soldier. He was a leading Texas political figure during the Republic of Texas, Texas ...

Emory Rains Emory Rains (May 4, 1800 – March 4, 1878) was a lawyer, judge and political leader in the Republic of Texas and thereafter in the State of Texas. Rains was born in Warren County, Tennessee, and moved to Texas in 1817. Emory Rains held many publi ...

, Democrat * John Henninger Reagan, Democrat * Thomas Jefferson Shannon *

Adolphus Sterne Nicholas Adolphus Sterne (April 5, 1801 – March 27, 1852) served three terms in the Texas House of Representatives and one term in the Texas State Senate. He immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1817, living in Louisiana for ten yea ...

* James Truitt, Democrat

Membership Changes

Senate

References

External links

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