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The 19th Texas Legislature met from January 13 to March 31, 1885, in its regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1884 General Election.
Sessions
19th Regular session: January 13–March 31, 1885
Party summary
July 2010
Officers
Senate
Lieutenant Governor
Barnett Gibbs, Democrat
President pro tempore
William R. Shannon, Democrat, Regular session
Constantine Buckley "Buck" Kilgore, Democrat, ad interim
House of Representatives
Speaker of the House
Lafayette Lumpkin Foster, Democrat
Members
Members of the Nineteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, January 13, 1885:
Senate
District Senator Party Took office 1 William L. Douglass 1885 2 Caleb Jackson Garrison 1885 3 William Henry Pope Democrat 1883 4 John A. Peacock 1883 5 Samuel D. Stinson 1885 6 John Lafayette Camp, Jr. 1885 7 Constantine Buckley "Buck" Kilgore Democrat 1885 8 Mansel Y. Randolph 1883 9 James W. Jones 1883 10 W. M. Jerdone 1885 11 John Woods 1885 12 Hermann Knittel 1885 13 John P. Fowler 1883 14 James S. Perry 1883 15 Lochlin Johnson Farrar 1883 16 J. O. Terrell 1885 17 John Johnson 1883 18 William O. Davis 1882 19 Temple Lea Houston 1885 20 William R. Shannon Democrat 1879 (Prior: 1865–1867) 21 William H. Getzendaner 1883 22 Richard H. Harrison 1885 23 Charles Keith Bell 1885 24 George Washington Glasscock, Jr. 1885 25 George Pfeuffer 1883 26 Rudolph Kleberg 1883 27 E. F. Hall 1885 28 Augustus W. Houston Democrat 1879 29 James Henry Calhoun 1885 30 John Henry Traylor 1883 31 William A. Evans 1883
House of Representatives
Members of the House of Representatives for the Nineteenth Texas Legislature:
Frank P. Alexander
William T. Armistead
Edwin Augustus Atlee
Milton Stanhope Austin
John Bailey
Joseph Weir Barnett
John Andrew Virgil Barton
William Beard
Charles C. Bell
Oscar B. Bergstrom
William Preston Bishop
Kenneth Royal Blackshear
James P. Blount
Stephen William Blount
Robert Joseph Brailsford
James Browning
Angero Grey Camp
Benjamin M. Camp
Daniel Milton Carleton
William John Caven
William Richard Cavitt
Gideon Christian
William D. Cochran (politician)
James Henry Combs
Thomas Chappel Cook
Zachariah Ellis Coombs
James Robb Cowles
George Russell Craft
Martin McNulty Crane
Nehemiah Andrew Cravens
Daniel Chambers Darroch
Benjamin F. Davis
George Washington Donalson
James Henry Faubion
Lorenzo Clarke Fisher
Lafayette Lumpkin Foster
Robert Coleman Foster
Frank Bailey Greenwood
Adolph Carl Ludwig Groos
Addison Yancey Gunter
Robert T. Hailey
William Oscar Hamilton
William Powell Hancock
Harry Haynes
David Thomas Hearne
Travis Clark Henderson
Joseph Wesley Humphrey
George Francis Ingraham
James Marion Jolley
Edward A. Jones
J. Ras Jones
William Henry Jones
Thomas W. Kennedy
John Powell Key
Robert Snead Kimbrough
John Rhodes King
Francis William Latham
Thomas Hamilton Lenox
Edward Daniel Linn
William Henry Lockett
Jesse P. Loving
Marcellus French Lowe
William McGaughey
Andrew Todd McKinney
John Guilford McReynolds
William Thomas Meriwether
Edward Taylor Moore
Robert J. Moore
Philander Burr Muse
William Butler Page
George Cassety Pendleton
William Smartt Pendleton
Samuel Porter Pounders
Alexis Theodore Rainey
John A. Ramsdell
James M. Robinson
James R. Robinson
John W. Rountree
Whitfield Scott
Frank W. Simmons
Felix Ezell Smith
Robert E. Steele
Charles Frederick Stevens
James H. Stewart
Marshall Tankersley
Benjamin Dudley Tarlton
Horatio Lorenzo Tate
Alsey Marcellus Taylor
William Lafayette Thompson
William Harrison Tipton
George Isbell Turnley
Ammon Underwood
William Felton Upton
Armistead Elisha Watson
Joseph T. Webb
Missouri Henneger Whaley
James Knox White
Benjamin Franklin Williams
Richard Henry Wood
James Stanton Woods
Elijah Fisk Yeager
Membership Changes
Senate
District Outgoingsenator Reason for vacancy Successor Date of successor's installation District 7 Constantine Buckley "Buck" Kilgore Kilgore resigned October 23, 1886 to seek election to the Fiftieth United States Congress Vacant District 25 George Pfeuffer Pfeuffer died September 15, 1886 Vacant District 26 Rudolph Kleberg Kleberg resigned September 9, 1886 Vacant District 27 E. F. Hall Hall died April 28, 1886 Vacant
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