Eighteenth Texas Legislature

The Eighteenth Texas Legislature met from January 9, 1883 to February 6, 1884 in its regular session and one called session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in the 1882 general election.

## Contents

* 1 Sessions
* 2 Party summary
* 3 Officers
* 3.1 Senate
* 3.2 House of Representatives
* 4 Members
* 4.1 Senate
* 4.2 House of Representatives
* 5 Membership changes
* 6 External links

## Sessions[edit]

* 18th Regular session: January 9–April 13, 1883
* 18th First called session: January 8–February 6, 1884

## Party summary[edit]

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## Officers[edit]

### Senate[edit]

Lieutenant Governor
Francis Marion Martin, Democrat
President pro tempore
Augustus W. Houston, Democrat, Regular session
Samuel Bronson Cooper, Democrat, ad interim, First called session

### House of Representatives[edit]

Speaker of the House
Charles Reese Gibson, Democrat

## Members[edit]

Members of the Eighteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, January 9, 1883:

### Senate[edit]

District  | Senator  | Party  | Took office

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1 | Samuel Bronson Cooper | Democrat  | 1881
2 | Frank L. Johnson |  | 1883
3 | William Henry Pope | Democrat  | 1883
4 | John A. Peacock |  | 1883
5 | E. A. King |  | 1883
6 | John C. Buchanan |  | 1879
7 | John Young Gooch |  | 1879
8 | Mansel Y. Randolph |  | 1883
9 | James W. Jones |  | 1883
10 | Asa E. Stratton, Jr. |  | 1883
11 | Samuel C. Patton |  | 1879
12 | Alvah Chesley |  | 1883
13 | John P. Fowler |  | 1883
14 | James S. Perry |  | 1883
15 | Lochlin Johnson Farrar |  | 1883
16 | Barnett Gibbs | Democrat  | 1883
17 | John Johnson |  | 1883
18 | William O. Davis |  | 1882
19 | Avery L. Matlock |  | 1883
20 | William R. Shannon | Democrat  | 1879 (Prior: 1865–1867)
21 | William H. Getzendaner |  | 1883
22 | John A. Martin |  | 1883
23 | Andrew Jackson Harris |  | 1881
24 | Alexander Watkins Terrell | Democrat  | 1876
25 | George Pfeuffer |  | 1883
26 | Rudolph Kleberg |  | 1883
27 | Norman G. Collins |  | 1883
28 | Augustus W. Houston | Democrat  | 1879
29 | James Richard Fleming | Democrat  | 1883
30 | John Henry Traylor |  | 1883
31 | William A. Evans |  | 1883

### House of Representatives[edit]

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* Benjamin M. Baker
* William John Caven
* R. J. Evans
* George Finlay
* George Washington Lafayette Fly
* Lafayette Lumpkin Foster
* Charles Reese Gibson
* Andrew Jackson Harris
* William Kercheval Homan
* Joseph Chappell Hutcheson
* Robert A. Kerr
* Absolom C. Oliver
* George C. Pendleton—District 24
* Thomas A. Rodríguez
* George Robertson Reeves
* Benjamin Dudley Tarlton
* George T. Todd
* Arthur Tompkins
* John Henry Traylor
* James W. Truitt
* William Wallace Weatherred
* Charles Louis Wurzbach
* G. W. Wyatt
* Alexander John Leo

## Membership changes[edit]

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

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District 10 | Asa E. Stratton, Jr. | Stratton resigned May 14, 1884.  | Vacant |
District 19 | Avery L. Matlock | Matlock resigned September 24, 1884.  | Vacant |

## External links[edit]

* 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)

†Timing of elections and sessions affected by the Civil War and Reconstruction
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