Second Texas Legislature

The Second 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.

## 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 References
* 7 External links

## Sessions[edit]

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

## Party summary[edit]

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## Officers[edit]

### Senate[edit]

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

### House of Representatives[edit]

Speaker of the House
James Wilson Henderson, Democrat

## Members[edit]

### Senate[edit]

Members of the Texas Senate for the Second Texas Legislature:

District  | Senator  | Party  | Took office

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1 | William M. "Buckskin" Williams |  | 1846
2 | James B. Wootten |  | 1847
3 | Edward Clark | Democrat  | 1847
4 | Isaac Parker |  | 1847
5 | Benjamin Rush Wallace |  | 1846
6 | John H. McRae |  | 1847
7 | William C. Abbott |  | 1847
8 | Henry J. Jewett |  | 1846
9 | Jesse Grimes |  | 1846
10 | Isaac W. Brashear |  | 1846
11 | Richard Bache, Jr. |  | 1847
12 | Stephen W. Perkins |  | 1847
13 | Philip Minor Cuney |  | 1847
14 | John Winfield Scott Dancy |  | 1847
15 | Edward Burleson |  | 1846
16 | Robert McAlpin Williamson |  | 1846
17 | Alexander H. Phillips |  | 1846
18 | José Antonio Navarro |  | 1846
19 | Henry Lawrence Kinney |  | 1846
F[1] | James G. Bourland |  | 1846

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

### House of Representatives[edit]

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

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District  | Representative  | Party  | Took office  | Left office

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Austin  | William E. Crump | Democrat  | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849
Charles Railey | [data unknown/missing] | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849
Bastrop  | Thomas Jones Hardeman | [data unknown/missing] | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849
Bexar  | M. A. Dooley | [data unknown/missing] | December 16, 1847  | November 5, 1849
Henry M. Lewis | [data unknown/missing] | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849
Bowie  | Samuel F. Mosely | [data unknown/missing] | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849
Hardin Richard Runnels | [data unknown/missing] | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849
Brazoria  | Guy Morrison Bryan | Democrat  | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849
Elisha M. Pease | [data unknown/missing] | December 13, 1847  | November 5, 1849
Brazos
Colorado

* James Armstrong
* John D. Anderson
* William H. Bourland, Democrat
* Jacob De Cordova
* Benjamin Holland Epperson
* Samuel G. Haynie
* James Wilson Henderson, Democrat
* Charles G. Keenan, Democrat
* Mirabeau B. Lamar
* Emory Rains, Democrat
* John Henninger Reagan, Democrat
* Thomas Jefferson Shannon
* Adolphus Sterne
* James Truitt, Democrat

## Membership Changes[edit]

### Senate[edit]

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

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District 11 | Richard Bache | 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  |

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Legislative Reference Library | Legislators and Leaders | Texas Legislators: Past & Present".

## 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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