The 19th Texas Legislature met from January 13 to March 31, 1885 in its regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1884 General Election.

Sessions

*19th Regular session: January 13–March 31, 1885

Party summary

Officers

Senate

; Lieutenant Governor : Barnett Gibbs, Democrat ; President ''pro tempore'' :

William R. Shannon William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conques ...

, Democrat, Regular session : Constantine Buckley "Buck" Kilgore, Democrat, ''ad interim''

House of Representatives

; Speaker of the House : Lafayette Lumpkin Foster, Democrat

Members

Members of the Nineteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, January 13, 1885:

Senate

House of Representatives

Members of the House of Representatives for the Nineteenth Texas Legislature: *

Frank P. Alexander Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Cur ...

William T. Armistead William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conques ...

Edwin Augustus Atlee The name Edwin means "rich friend". It comes from the Old English elements "ead" (rich, blessed) and "ƿine" (friend). The original Anglo-Saxon form is Eadƿine, which is also found for Anglo-Saxon figures. People * Edwin of Northumbria (die ...

* Milton Stanhope Austin * John Bailey * Joseph Weir Barnett * John Andrew Virgil Barton * William Beard * Charles C. Bell * Oscar B. Bergstrom * William Preston Bishop * Kenneth Royal Blackshear * James P. Blount * Stephen William Blount * Robert Joseph Brailsford * James Browning * Angero Grey Camp * Benjamin M. Camp * Daniel Milton Carleton * William John Caven * William Richard Cavitt * Gideon Christian * William D. Cochran (politician) * James Henry Combs * Thomas Chappel Cook * Zachariah Ellis Coombs * James Robb Cowles * George Russell Craft *

Martin McNulty Crane Martin McNulty Crane (D) (November 17, 1853 – August 3, 1943) was an influential Texas Granger movement and Populist Populism refers to a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of "the people" and often juxtapose this gro ...

* Nehemiah Andrew Cravens * Daniel Chambers Darroch *

Benjamin F. Davis Benjamin Franklin "Grimes" Davis (October, 1831 – June 9, 1863) was an American military officer who served in Indian wars, and then led Union cavalry in the American Civil War before dying in combat. He led a daring escape from the Confe ...

* George Washington Donalson * James Henry Faubion * Lorenzo Clarke Fisher * Lafayette Lumpkin Foster *

Robert Coleman Foster Robert Coleman Foster I (July 8, 1769 – September 27, 1844) was a prominent Nashville, Tennessee, Attorney at law (United States), attorney and politician. Biography Foster was born in Virginia on July 8, 1769. He was married to Ann Hubbard. ...

* Frank Bailey Greenwood * Adolph Carl Ludwig Groos * Addison Yancey Gunter * Robert T. Hailey * William Oscar Hamilton * William Powell Hancock *

Harry Haynes Harry Haynes (21 April 1873 – 29 May 1902) was an English footballer who played as a full back for Walsall Town Swifts, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Small Heath and Southampton in the 1890s. Career Midlands Haynes was born in Walsall and afte ...

* David Thomas Hearne * Travis Clark Henderson * Joseph Wesley Humphrey * George Francis Ingraham * James Marion Jolley * Edward A. Jones * J. Ras Jones *

William Henry Jones William Henry Jones (1817–1885), William Henry Rich Jones from 1883, was an English Anglican priest, antiquarian and author. Life The eldest son of William Jones, chief secretary of the Religious Tract Society, he was born in the parish of Chr ...

* Thomas W. Kennedy * John Powell Key * Robert Snead Kimbrough *

John Rhodes King John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

* Francis William Latham * Thomas Hamilton Lenox * Edward Daniel Linn * William Henry Lockett * Jesse P. Loving * Marcellus French Lowe * William McGaughey * Andrew Todd McKinney * John Guilford McReynolds * William Thomas Meriwether * Edward Taylor Moore *

Robert J. Moore Robert James Moore (c. 1844–?) was a teacher and Republican politician who served three terms in the Texas Legislature. He was born in Navasota, Texas in 1844.Freedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner Louisiana State University Press (1996) page 15 ...

* Philander Burr Muse * William Butler Page * George Cassety Pendleton * William Smartt Pendleton * Samuel Porter Pounders * Alexis Theodore Rainey * John A. Ramsdell *

James M. Robinson James McConkey Robinson (June 30, 1924 – March 22, 2016) was an American scholar who retired as Professor Emeritus of Religion at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, specializing in New Testament Studies and Nag Hammadi ...

James R. Robinson James R. Robinson (1860–1950) was a Scottish-born American industrialist, inventor, and author of a seminal book on mine ventilation (1922). The book documents his invention of a new device for ventilating mines and preventing the build-up of exp ...

* John W. Rountree * Whitfield Scott * Frank W. Simmons * Felix Ezell Smith * Robert E. Steele * Charles Frederick Stevens * James H. Stewart * Marshall Tankersley *

Benjamin Dudley Tarlton Benjamin Dudley Tarlton (October 18, 1849 – September 22, 1919) was an American lawyer, legislator, judge, and professor. Tarlton practiced law in Texas from 1899 to 1904. He served in the seventeenth and nineteenth Texas Legislatures as memb ...

* Horatio Lorenzo Tate * Alsey Marcellus Taylor * William Lafayette Thompson * William Harrison Tipton * George Isbell Turnley * Ammon Underwood * William Felton Upton * Armistead Elisha Watson * Joseph T. Webb * Missouri Henneger Whaley * James Knox White * Benjamin Franklin Williams *

Richard Henry Wood Richard Henry Wood DL JP FSA FRGS (6 February 1820 – 26 April 1908) was a British antiquary and philanthropist. Career Wood was the son of Charles Wood (d.1866) of Northen House, Northen, Cheshire, a former officer in the Napoleonic War ...

* James Stanton Woods * Elijah Fisk Yeager

Membership Changes

Senate

External links

{{TexasLegislatures 19th Texas Legislature 1885 in Texas 1885 U.S. legislative sessions