11th Utah Territorial Legislature

The 11th Utah Territorial Legislature was elected on August 5, 1861. ^[1]

Session

The legislative session convened on December 9, 1861, at the Court House in Salt Lake City, and ended on January 17, 1862. ^{[2] [3]}

Members

Name	County	Office	Notes
Territorial Council:
Ezra T. Benson	Cache
Albert Carrington	Salt Lake
William J. Cox	Millard
James W. Cummings	Utah
Leonard E. Harrington	Utah
John W. Hess	Davis
Orson Hyde	Sanpete
Franklin D. Richards	Salt Lake
George A. Smith	Iron
Lorenzo Snow	Weber
Daniel Spencer	Salt Lake
Daniel H. Wells	Salt Lake	President
Wilford Woodruff	Salt Lake
Territorial House of Representatives:
Thomas Callister	Millard
Hiram B. Clawson	Salt Lake
William Crosby	Iron
Horace S. Eldredge	Salt Lake
Aaron F. Farr	Weber
Thomas Grover	Davis
Lorenzo H. Hatch	Utah
Joseph Holbrook	Davis
Benjamin F. Johnson	Utah
John V. Long	Salt Lake
Peter Maughan	Cache
Jonathan Midgley	Juab
John M. Moody	Salt Lake
Thomas Rhoads	Summit/Green River
Albert P. Rockwood	Salt Lake
John Rowberry	Tooele
Silas S. Smith	Iron
Bernard Snow	Sanpete
Hosea Stout	Salt Lake
John Taylor	Salt Lake	Speaker
Edward W. Thompson	Beaver
Albert K. Thurber	Utah
Chauncey W. West	Weber
Edwin D. Woolley	Salt Lake
Joseph A. Young	Salt Lake

The House of Representatives had only 25 members instead of the normal 26 because Carson County, to which the vacant seat was allocated, had been separated earlier in 1861 by the creation of Nevada Territory. In response to this, the Legislative Assembly revised county boundaries throughout the territory, dissolving several other smaller counties, and passed a comprehensive reapportionment of the seats for future legislative elections. ^{[4] [5]}

References

1. Contemporaneous reports of the 1861 Utah election are not available because the Deseret News had been forced into hiatus due to a paper shortage. "To Our Patrons". Deseret News. July 27, 1859. p. 4. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
2. "Eleventh Annual Session of the Legislative Assembly". Deseret News. December 18, 1861. p. 2. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
3. "Drawing to a Close". Deseret News. January 15, 1862. p. 8. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
4. "An Act Defining the Boundaries of Counties, and for other purposes". Deseret News. January 29, 1862. p. 8. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
5. "An Act Apportioning the Representation of Utah Territory". Deseret News. January 29, 1862. p. 8. Retrieved March 6, 2024.