Thirteenth Texas Legislature

The Thirteenth Texas Legislature met from January 14 to June 4, 1873 in its regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1872.

## 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 References
* 7 External links

## Sessions[edit]

* 13th Regular session: January 14–June 4, 1873

## Party summary[edit]

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## Officers[edit]

### Senate[edit]

Lieutenant Governor
Vacant
President pro tempore (Lieutenant Governor ex officio)
Edward Bradford Pickett, Democrat

### House of Representatives[edit]

Speaker of the House
M. D. K. Taylor, Democrat

## Members[edit]

Members of the Thirteenth Texas Legislature at the beginning of the Regular Session, January 14, 1873:

### Senate[edit]

District  | Senator  | Party  | Took office

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1 | Edward Bradford Pickett |  | 1870
2 | William H. Swift |  | 1871
3 | James Elizer Dillard |  | 1871
4 | Thomas J. Word |  | 1872
5 | David Webster Flanagan | Republican  | 1870
6 | John Lane Henry |  | 1872
7 | Henry Rawson |  | 1870
8 | Hamilton J. Avinger |  | 1872
9 | Henry Russell Latimer |  | 1870
10 | David W. Cole |  | 1870
11 | Ebenezer Lafayette Dohoney |  | 1870
12 | George Thompson Ruby | Republican  | 1870
13 | Francis J. Franks |  | 1872
14 | James G. Tracy |  | 1872
15 | Edward T. Randle |  | 1872
16 | Matthew Gaines |  | 1870
17 | William A. Saylor |  | 1870
18 | Phidello W. Hall |  | 1870
19 | S. W. Ford |  | 1870
20 | William H. Pyle |  | 1870
21 | Samuel Evans |  | 1870
22 | E. Thomas Broughton |  | 1870
23 | Andrew J. Ball |  | 1872
24 | George Preston Finlay | Democrat  | 1872 (Prior: 1861–1863)
25 | Robert P. Tendick |  | 1871
26 | Joseph D. Sayers | Democrat  | 1872
27 | Thomas H. Baker |  | 1870
28 | Nathan George Shelley | Democrat  | 1872 (Prior: 1861–1863, 1865–1867)
29 | Henry C. King |  | 1872
30 | Albert Jennings Fountain | Republican  | 1870

### House of Representatives[edit]

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* C. L. Abbott[1]
* John Adriance[2]
* Richard Allen[1], Republican[3]
* Thomas G. Allison[4]
* Em Anderson[5]
* James Monroe Anderson[6]
* James Armstrong[7]
* Julius Berends[8]
* Samuel Bewley[9]
* W.S. Bledsoe[10]
* Augustus J. Booty[11]
* Richard Bordeaux[12]
* A. S. Broaddus[13]
* Bluford Brown[14]
* John Henry Brown[15]
* Edward Chambers[16]
* John Carroll[17]
* Gustave Cook[18]
* John Cunningham[19]
* Overton Fletcher Davenport[20]
* Samuel Day[21]
* Ashley Denton[22]
* Peter Diller[23]
* John N. Doyle[24]
* James Eastland[25]
* W. A. Ellett[26]
* Henry Ford[27]
* Louis Frankee[28]
* C.C. Galloway[29]
* Robert Gaston[30]
* Henry Clay Ghent, M.D. (Seventeenth District, including Bell and Milam Counties)][31]
* Levi Gillette[32]
* Henry Addington Gilpin[33]
* William Greene[34]
* James Marshall Harrison[35]
* Thomas Hester[36]
* Gustav V. Hoffmann[37]
* Orlando Newton Hollingsworth[38]
* John Ireland[39]
* Thomas M. Joseph[40]
* Josiah Kemble[41]
* Ira Killough[42]
* Marcellus E. Kleberg[43]
* William Lane[44]
* Johann Frederic Leyendecker[45]
* Abner S. Lipscomb[46]
* William Mabry[47]
* Hilary Manning[48]
* John M. McDonald[49]
* F.A. Michael[50]
* J.S. Mills[51]
* Henry Moore[52]
* William Morris[53]
* Hudson Nelson[54]
* Julius Noeggerath[55]
* Jonathan Payne[56]
* Henry Phelps[57]
* Stephen Powers[58]
* Davis M. Prendergast[59]
* Frank Rainey[60]
* Burlington Wesley Rimes[61]
* Sam Robb[62]
* Meshack Roberts[63]
* David Decatur Rosborough[64]
* Alexander Rossey[65]
* Jonathan Russell[66]
* Chauncey B. Sabin[67]
* Charles Partin Salter[68]
* William Sayers[69]
* Erich F. Schmidt[70]
* Preston Scott[71]
* Edward Sharp[72]
* W.A. Shaw[73]
* Eli Shelton[74]
* Daniel Short[75]
* George Washington Smith[76]
* John T. Smith[77]
* Leonidas Jefferson Storey[78]
* Charles Stockbridge[79]
* Marion DeKalb Taylor[80]
* Alfred Sturgis Thurmond[81]
* William Tilson[82]
* Joseph Albert Tivy[83]
* John Files Tom[84]
* William H. Trolinger[85]
* Khleber Miller Van Zandt[86]
* William Veale[87]
* Stephen Venters[88]
* U.G. Mitchell Walker[89]
* James H. Washington[90]
* Arthur Thomas Watts[91]
* William Westfall[92]
* Allen W. Wilder[93]
* Richard Williams[94]
* Clinton McKamy Winkler[95]
* William Daniel Wood[96]

^ Representative Allen was apparently re-elected, but House Democrats alleged voting fraud and seated his Democratic opponent instead.

## Membership Changes[edit]

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## References[edit]

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## 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

* v
* t
* e

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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