16th Texas Legislature

none February 2025 April 2016 The 16th Texas Legislature met from January 14 to July 9, 1879 in its regular session and one called session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1878 General Election. Sessions 16th Regular session: January 14–April 24, 1879 16th First called session: June 10–July 9, 1879 Party summary July 2010 Officers Senate Lieutenant Governor Joseph Draper Sayers, Democrat President pro tempore Edwin Hobby, Democrat, Regular session, ad interim Leonidas Jefferson Storey, Democrat, First called session House of Representatives Speaker of the House John Hughes Cochran, Democrat Members Members of the Sixteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, January 14, 1879: Senate District Senator Party Took office 1 Edwin Hobby Democrat 1874 2 Peyton Forbes Edwards 1876 3 John W. Motley 1876 4 Walter Riptoe Republican 1876 5 William H. Tilson 1879 6 William Jesse Swain 1879 7 John Martin Duncan 1879 8 John Young Gooch 1879 9 Charles D. Grace 1876 10 John C. Buchanan 1879 11 William Blassingame 1876 12 William D. Lair Democrat 1879 (Prior: 1861–1863) 13 Robert S. Guy 1876 14 Francis Marion Martin Democrat 1879 (Prior: 1859–1861) 15 Thomas J. McCulloch 1876 16 James R. Burnett 1876 17 Walter Moses Burton Republican 1874 18 Charles Stewart 1879 19 Andrew Phelps McCormick Republican 1876 20 William Kercheval Homan 1879 21 William M. Brown 1876 22 John W. Moore Democrat 1876 (Prior: 1861–1865) 23 William R. Shannon Democrat 1879 (Prior: 1865–1867) 24 Jewett H. Davenport 1879 (Prior: 1874–1876) 25 Alexander Watkins Terrell Democrat 1876 26 William Hamilton Ledbetter 1874 27 Samuel C. Patton 1879 28 Ellsberry R. Lane 1876 29 John Salmon "Rip" Ford Democrat 1876 (Prior: 1851–1853) 30 Augustus W. Houston Democrat 1879 31 Leonidas Jefferson Storey Democrat 1876 House of Representatives August 2008 Benjamin M. Baker Thomas Beck William Bell Guy Morrison Bryan William Clemens John Hughes Cochran James N. English R. J. Evans George Finlay Jacob E. Freeman Samuel Frost Caleb Jackson Garrison Charles Reese Gibson Bedford G. Guy William Kercheval Homan Elias Mayes George Pickett Joseph Benjamin Polley Alonzo Sledge Ashbel Smith Felix Ezell Smith M. D. K. Taylor Robert H. Taylor Benjamin Franklin Williams Charles Louis Wurzbach Membership Changes District OutgoingSenator Reason for Vacancy Successor Date of Successor's Installation District 1 Edwin Hobby Hobby resigned July 10, 1879. Vacant District 2 Peyton Forbes Edwards resigned December 4, 1871. Vacant District 15 Thomas J. McCulloch McCulloch resigned September 3, 1879. Vacant District 16 James R. Burnett Burnett resigned October 9, 1879. John T. Buchanans16 after February 17, 1880 District 19 Andrew Phelps McCormick McCormick resigned April 12, 1879. Robert Gould Street June 10, 1879 District 20 William Kercheval Homan Homan resigned July 9, 1879. William Kercheval Homan after February 17, 1880 District 29 John Salmon "Rip" Ford Ford resigned August 30, 1879. Vacant s16 District 16: Buchanan was elected in special election February 17, 1880 s20 District 20: Homan was reelected in special election February 17, 1880 External links 16 Texas Legislature Category:1879 in Texas Category:1879 U.S. legislative sessions