19th Texas Legislature

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

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 Outgoing
senator 		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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External links

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  • Election Results from the Office of the Secretary of State
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