Fourth Texas Legislature

The Fourth Texas Legislature met from November 3, 1851 to February 7, 1853 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 1850.

## 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
* 5.1 Senate
* 6 External links

## Sessions[edit]

* 4th Regular session: November 3, 1851 – February 16, 1852
* 4th First called session: January 10–February 7, 1853

## Party summary[edit]

This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (July 2010)

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## Officers[edit]

### Senate[edit]

Lieutenant Governor
James Wilson Henderson, Democrat
President pro tempore
Edward Burleson[1], Democrat, Regular session
Jesse Grimes, Democrat, Regular session, First called session

* ^ Senator Burleson died during the regular session on December 26, 1851.

### House of Representatives[edit]

Speaker of the House
David Catchings Dickson, Democrat

Add to Representatives: Issac B. McFarland, Democrat, elected in 1851 from La Grange, Fayette County

Sources: several obituaries, family history, list of One Hundredth Anniversary of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas

## Members[edit]

### Senate[edit]

Members of the Texas Senate for the Fourth Texas Legislature:

District  | Senator  | Party  | Took office

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1 | Joseph H. Burks | Democrat  | 1851
2 | William M. "Buckskin" Williams | Democrat  | 1851 (First time:1846–1849)
3 | Sam Bogart | Democrat  | 1851
4 | Hart Hardin | Democrat  | 1849
5 | M. D. K. Taylor | Democrat  | 1851
6 | George Washington Hill | Democrat  | 1851
7 | Isaac Parker | Democrat  | 1847
8 | Stephen Reaves | Democrat  | 1851
9 | William Thomas Scott | Democrat  | 1851 (First time:1846–1847)
10 | Z. Williams Eddy | Democrat  | 1851
11 | Adolphus Sterne | Democrat  | 1851
12 | James A. Truitt | Democrat  | 1851
13 | James Davis | Democrat  | 1851
14 | James H. Armstrong | Democrat  | 1851
15 | Jesse Grimes | Democrat  | 1846
16 | William S. Day | Democrat  | 1851
17 | Peter W. Gray | Democrat  | 1851
18 | Franklin H. Merriman | Democrat  | 1851
19 | James Charles Wilson | Democrat  | 1851
20 | John Winfield Scott Dancy | Democrat  | 1851 (First time:1847–1849)
21 | Edward Burleson | Democrat  | 1846
22 | Baron Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach | Democrat  | 1851
23 | Thomas Hinds Duggan | Democrat  | 1851
24 | Israel B. Bigelow | Democrat  | 1851
25 | Henry Lawrence Kinney | Democrat  | 1846
26 | Rufus Doane | Democrat  | 1851

### House of Representatives[edit]

Members of the House of Representatives for the Fourth Texas Legislature:

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (March 2018)

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District  | Representative  | First day of term  | Last day of term  | Counties Represented

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1  | Napoleon Bonaparte Charlton | November 3, 1851  | November 7, 1853  | Jefferson, Tyler
2  | William Fields | November 3, 1851  | November 7, 1853  | Liberty, Polk

* Hamilton P. Bee
* Guy Morrison Bryan
* David Catchings Dickson
* Randolph C. Doom
* Memucan Hunt, Jr.
* William G. W. Jowers
* William H. Johnson
* Evans Mabry
* Robert Simpson Neighbors
* John Patrick
* Robert Peebles
* Emory Rains
* James Rowe
* Hardin Richard Runnels
* Charles Bellinger Tate Stewart
* Benjamin E. Tarver
* Robert H. Taylor
* Andrew Jackson Titus
* Amasa Turner

## Membership Changes[edit]

### Senate[edit]

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

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District 11 | Adolphus Sterne | Senator Sterne died March 27, 1852.  | Steward Alexander Miller | January 20, 1852
District 18 | Franklin H. Merriman | Senator Merriman resigned August 31, 1852.  | Mark M. Potter | January 20, 1852
District 21 | Edward Burleson | Senator Burleson died December 26, 1851.  | John Salmon "Rip" Ford | January 20, 1852

## 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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