14th Texas Legislature

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The 14th Texas Legislature met from January 13, 1874 to March 15, 1875 in two regular sessions. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1873.

Contents

Sessions

Officers

Senate

Lieutenant Governor
Richard Bennett Hubbard, Jr.
President pro tempore (Lieutenant Governor ex officio)
Edward Bradford Pickett, Democrat

House of Representatives

Speaker of the House
Guy Morrison Bryan, Democrat

Members

Members of the Fourteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, January 13, 1874:

Senate

DistrictSenatorPartyTook office
1 Edwin Hobby Democrat1873
2 William H. Swift Democrat1871
3 James Eldrage Dillard Democrat1871
4 Winfield B. Stirman Democrat1873
5 David Webster Flanagan Republican1870
6 John Lafayette Camp Democrat1873
7 David Browning Culberson Democrat1873
8 Cader A. Parker Democrat1873
9 L. D. BradleyDemocrat1873
10 Joseph Morris Democrat1873
11 William E. Moore Democrat1873
12 Vacant 1873
13 Walter Moses Burton Republican1873
14 William R. Baker Democrat1873
15 Edward T. Randle Republican1872
16 T. G. Davidson Republican1873
17 Jewett H. Davenport Democrat1873
18 William D. Wood Democrat1873
19 George Bernard Erath Democrat1873 (Prior: 1857–1863)
20 Amzi Bradshaw Democrat1873
21 Robert D. Allison Democrat1873
22 William H. Trolinger Democrat1873
23 Andrew J. Ball Democrat1872
24 William R. Friend Democrat1873
25 Olinthus Ellis Democrat1873
26 William Hamilton Ledbetter Democrat1873
27 John Ireland Democrat1873
28 William H. Westfall Democrat1873
29 Joseph E. Dwyer Democrat1873
30 William Jarvis Russell, Jr. Democrat1873

House of Representatives

Membership Changes

DistrictOutgoing
Senator		Reason for VacancySuccessorDate of Successor's Installation
District 6 John Lafayette Camp Camp resigned March 13, 1875.Vacant
District 7 David Browning Culberson Culberson resigned March 3, 1875.Vacant
District 12 Vacant Benjamin Cromwell Franklin, member-elect, died December 25, 1873. Thomas Miller Joseph March 19, 1874
District 16 T. G. Davidson Davidson refused to qualify January 14, 1874. Seth Shepard March 26, 1874
District 22 William H. Trolinger Trolinger resigned before January 25, 1875. N. S. Craven January 25, 1875
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