The Fifth Texas Legislature met from November 7, 1853, to February 13, 1854, in its regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1853.
Sessions
* 5th Regular session: November 7, 1853 – February 13, 1854
Party summary
Officers
Senate
; Lieutenant Governor:
David Catchings Dickson
David Catchings Dickson (February 25, 1818 – June 5, 1880) was an American politician and physician in early Texas who served as the ninth Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and as the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Texas. He was als ...
, Democrat
; President ''pro tempore'':
M. D. K. Taylor, Democrat, Regular session
:
Guy Morrison Bryan, Democrat, Regular session
House of Representatives
; Speaker of the House :
Hardin Richard Runnels
Hardin Richard Runnels (August 30, 1820 – December 25, 1873) was a United States politician. He served as the sixth Governor of Texas for one term but notably was the only person to ever defeat Sam Houston in a political contest.
Early lif ...
, Democrat
Members
Senate
Members of the Texas Senate for the Fifth Texas Legislature:
House of Representatives
Members of the House of Representatives for the Fifth Texas Legislature. There are 73 districts at this time, 16 of them just created this session:
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John David German Adrian
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Hamilton P. Bee
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William H. Bourland, Democrat
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George E. Burney
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Horace Cone
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David Catchings Dickson
David Catchings Dickson (February 25, 1818 – June 5, 1880) was an American politician and physician in early Texas who served as the ninth Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and as the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Texas. He was als ...
, Democrat
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Benjamin Cromwell Franklin
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Lindsay Hagler,
San Patricio County
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Bird Holland
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John Byler Mallard
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Samuel A. Maverick
Samuel Augustus Maverick (July 23, 1803 – September 2, 1870) was a Texas lawyer, politician, land baron and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. His name is the source of the term "maverick," first cited in 1867, which means "indepe ...
, Democrat,
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William Menefee
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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 ...
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James Reily
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Hardin Richard Runnels
Hardin Richard Runnels (August 30, 1820 – December 25, 1873) was a United States politician. He served as the sixth Governor of Texas for one term but notably was the only person to ever defeat Sam Houston in a political contest.
Early lif ...
, Democrat
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Moses Fisk Roberts
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Gustav Schleicher
Gustav Schleicher (sometimes spelled Gustave) (November 19, 1823 – January 10, 1879) was a German-born Democratic United States Representative from Texas. He was an engineer who served briefly in the Texas legislature, and was a veteran ...
*
Charles William Tait
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Robert H. Taylor Robert H. Taylor (died, aged 76, on 5 May 1985) was a bibliophile who was president of the Grolier Club, the Keats-Shelley Association of America and the Bibliographical Society of America. He donated his collection of 7,000 books, manuscripts and d ...
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Amasa Turner
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George Washington Whitmore
* Wesley Clark Walker, Democrat
Membership changes
Senate
External links
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