2nd Texas Legislature

The 2nd 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

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

## Party summary

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## Officers

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### Senate

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Lieutenant Governor
John Alexander Greer, Democrat
President pro tempore
Edward Burleson, Democrat

### House of Representatives

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Speaker of the House
James Wilson Henderson, Democrat

## Members

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### Senate

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Members of the Texas Senate for the Second Texas Legislature:

District  | Senator  | Term start  | Term end  | Party

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1 | William M. "Buckskin" Williams | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | Democratic[1]
2 | James B. Wootten | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
3 | Edward Clark[a] | —  | —  | —
4 | David Aaron Gage | December 17, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Isaac Parker | February 16, 1846  | November 5, 1849  | Democratic[1]
5 | Benjamin Rush Wallace | February 16, 1846  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
6 | John H. McRae | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
7 | William C. Abbott | December 14, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
8 | Henry J. Jewett | February 16, 1846  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
9 | Jesse Grimes | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
10 | Isaac W. Brashear | December 15, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | Democratic[1]
11 | Richard Bache Jr.[b] | December 28, 1847  | March 17, 1848  | [data missing]
12 | Stephen W. Perkins | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
13 | Philip Minor Cuney | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | Democratic[1]
14 | John Winfield Scott Dancy | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
15 | Edward Burleson | February 16, 1846  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
16 | Robert McAlpin Williamson | February 16, 1846  | November 5, 1849  | Democratic[1]
17 | Alexander H. Phillips | February 16, 1846  | March 1, 1848  | Anti tariff[1]
18 | José Antonio Navarro | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
19 | Henry Lawrence Kinney[c] | —  | —  | —
Edward Fitzgerald[d] | February 5, 1848  | March 20, 1848  | [data missing]
F[1] | James G. Bourland | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]

* ^ Bourland was a floating senator "conjointly" elected from Bowie, Red River, Fannin, and Lamar counties

### House of Representatives

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Members of the House of Representatives for the Second Texas Legislature:[2]

District  | Representative  | Term start  | Term end  | Party

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Austin | William E. Crump | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Charles Railey | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Bastrop | Thomas Jones Hardeman | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Bexar | Mathew A. Dooley | December 16, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Henry Martyn Lewis | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Bowie | Samuel Fountain Mosely | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Hardin Richard Runnels | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Brazoria | Guy Morrison Bryan | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Elisha M. Pease | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Brazos | Elliott McNeil Millican | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Colorado | John Forrester Miller | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
William B. Perry | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Fannin | Samuel Bogart | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Thomas Jefferson Shannon | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Fayette | William Henry Crutcher | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
William Graham Webb | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Fort Bend | William S. Rayner | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Galveston | Mark Milton Potter | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Hamilton Stuart | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Goliad | Jesse Stoddard | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Gonzales | James L. Allen | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
John D. Anderson | December 13, 1847  | January 10, 1848  | [data missing]
Vacant | January 10, 1848  | February 15, 1848  | —
William Henry Stewart | February 15, 1848  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Harris | James Wilson Henderson | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Magnus T. Rogers | December 13, 1847  | January 26, 1848  | [data missing]
Vacant | January 26, 1848  | February 19, 1848  | —
Jacob Raphael De Cordova | February 19, 1848  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Benjamin Franklin Tankersley | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Harrison | Richard Newton Goode | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
James Franklin Taylor | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | Whig[3]
Erwin M. Wilder | December 13, 1847  | December 21, 1847  | Whig[3]
Houston | Steward Alexander Miller | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | Democratic[1]
William Turner Sadler | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | Democratic[1]
Jackson | Benjamin Jobe White | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Jasper | Zimri Williams Eddy | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Jefferson | James H. Armstrong | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Lamar | William Howard Bourland | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | Democratic
Johnson Wren | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Liberty | John H. Davis | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
William Fields | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Matagorda | Thomas Mason Dennis | February 26, 1848  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Milam | James Shaw | February 26, 1848  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Montgomery | Thomas Carothers | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Charles G. Keenan | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Jerome B. McCown | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Arch McNeill | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Nacogdoches | Elisha Everett Lott | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
John Henninger Reagan | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Adolphus Sterne | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Red River | Benjamin Holland Epperson | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | Whig
James Gilliam | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
William B. Stout | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Refugio | Benjamin Franklin Neal | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Robertson | James M. Davis | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Clinton McKamy Winkler | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Rusk | James H. Lyons | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Jesse Walling | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Sabine | James M. Burroughs | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | Democratic[1]
Peter F. Renfro | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
San Augustine | William C. Edwards | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | Republican[1]
Otis M. Wheeler | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
San Patricio | Mirabeau B. Lamar | December 13, 1847  | January 28, 1848[e] | [data missing]
Shelby | Emory Rains | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
James Alfred Truitt | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Travis | Samuel Haynie | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Victoria | A.J. Cunningham | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
Washington | Van Rensaeller Irion | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | Democratic[1]
Jerome Bonaparte Robertson | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]
James Willie | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849  | [data missing]

## Membership Changes

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### Senate

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District  | Outgoing
Senator  | Reason for Vacancy  | Successor  | Date of Successor's Installation

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District 11 | Richard Bache Jr. | Senator Bache died March 17, 1848  | None  | —
District 17 | Alexander H. Phillips | Senator Phillips resigned March 1, 1848.  | None  | —
District 19 | Henry Lawrence Kinney | Senator Kinney resigned before December 18, 1847.  | Edward Fitzgerald | February 5, 1848
District 19 | Edward Fitzgerald | Senator Fitzgerald resigned March 20, 1848.  | None  | —

### House of Representatives

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District  | Outgoing
Representative  | Reason for Vacancy  | Successor  | Date of Successor's Installation

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Gonzales | John D. Anderson | Representative Anderson resigned due to ill health on January 10, 1848  | William Henry Stewart[2] | February 15, 1848
Harris | Magnus T. Rogers | Representative Rogers died on January 26, 1848.  | Jacob Raphael De Cordova[3] | February 19, 1848
Harrison | Erwin M. Wilder | Representative Wilder was granted compassionate leave and never returned.  | None  | —
San Patricio | Mirabeau B. Lamar | Representative Lamar resigned on January 8, 1848.  | None  | —

* ^ Gonzales: Stewart succeeded Anderson, who had resigned in January 1848, on February 15, 1848.
* ^ Harris: Jacob Raphael De Cordova succeeded Magnus Rogers after his death and took the oath of office on February 19, 1848.

## Notes

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1. ^ Clark was elected but never sworn
2. ^ Bache won the special election to fill Thomas Freeman McKinney's unexpired term
3. ^ Kinney was elected but never sworn
4. ^ Fitzgerald resigned
5. ^ Lamar resigned

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Table of members of the first Texas Legislature of the State of Texas". The Texas Democrat. Vol. 1, no. 20 (1 ed.). Austin, Texas. May 20, 1846 – via The Portal to Texas History.
2. ^ "Legislative Reference Library | Legislators and Leaders | Texas Legislators: Past & Present".
3. ^ a b "Texas Whigs Named in Newspapers and Identified from the census of 1850". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 73. July 1969 – April 1970 – via The Portal to Texas History.

## External links

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* Texas Legislature Online
* Texas Senate
* Texas House of Representatives
* Election Results from the Office of the Secretary of State
* Legislative Reference Library

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Texas State Legislatures (and year convened)

* 1 (1846)
* 2 (1847)
* 3 (1849)
* 4 (1851)
* 5 (1853)
* 6 (1855)
* 7 (1857)
* 8 (1859)
* 9 (1861)
* 10 (1863)
* 11 (1866)†
* 12 (1870)†
* 13 (1873)†
* 14 (1874)†
* 15 (1876)†
* 16 (1879)
* 17 (1881)
* 18 (1883)
* 19 (1885)
* 20 (1887)
* 21 (1889)
* 22 (1891)
* 23 (1893)
* 24 (1895)
* 25 (1897)
* 26 (1899)
* 27 (1901)
* 28 (1903)
* 29 (1905)
* 30 (1907)
* 31 (1909)
* 32 (1911)
* 33 (1913)
* 34 (1915)
* 35 (1917)
* 36 (1919)
* 37 (1921)
* 38 (1923)
* 39 (1925)
* 40 (1927)
* 41 (1929)
* 42 (1931)
* 43 (1933)
* 44 (1935)
* 45 (1937)
* 46 (1939)
* 47 (1941)
* 48 (1943)
* 49 (1945)
* 50 (1947)
* 51 (1949)
* 52 (1951)
* 53 (1953)
* 54 (1955)
* 55 (1957)
* 56 (1959)
* 57 (1961)
* 58 (1963)
* 59 (1965)
* 60 (1967)
* 61 (1969)
* 62 (1971)
* 63 (1973)
* 64 (1975)
* 65 (1977)
* 66 (1979)
* 67 (1981)
* 68 (1983)
* 69 (1985)
* 70 (1987)
* 71 (1989)
* 72 (1991)
* 73 (1993)
* 74 (1995)
* 75 (1997)
* 76 (1999)
* 77 (2001)
* 78 (2003)
* 79 (2005)
* 80 (2007)
* 81 (2009)
* 82 (2011)
* 83 (2013)
* 84 (2015)
* 85 (2017)
* 86 (2019)
* 87 (2021)
* 88 (2023)
* 89 (2025)

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