Fifteenth Texas Legislature

The Fifteenth Texas Legislature met from April 18 to August 21, 1876, in its regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1875.

Sessions[]

15th Regular session: April 18 – August 21, 1876

Party summary[]

Officers[]

Senate[]

Lieutenant Governor: Richard Bennett Hubbard, Jr., Democrat
President pro tempore: , Democrat

House of Representatives[]

Speaker of the House: , Democrat

Members[]

Members of the Fifteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, April 18, 1876:

Senate[]

District	Senator	Party	Took office
1		Democrat	1874
2			1876
3			1876
4	Walter Riptoe	Republican	1876
5			1876
6			1876
7	James Postell Douglas		1876 (Prior: 1870–1872)
8			1876
9			1876
10			1876
11	William Blassingame		1876
12			1876
13			1876
14			1876
15			1876
16			1876
17	Walter Moses Burton	Republican	1874
18	John Thomas Brady		1876
19	Andrew Phelps McCormick	Republican	1876
20			1876
21			1876
22		Democrat	1876 (Prior: 1861–1865)
23			1876
24			1876
25	Alexander Watkins Terrell	Democrat	1876
26			1874
27		Democrat	1876
28	William Henry Crain		1876
29	John Salmon "Rip" Ford	Democrat	1876 (Prior: 1851–1853)
30			1876
31		Democrat	1876

House of Representatives[]

Logan Henderson McCorkle, Sulphur Springs

^ Representative Wilder won a closely contested election, but House Democrats contended that some votes were illegal and seated his Democratic opponent instead.

Membership changes[]

District	Outgoing Senator	Reason for Vacancy	Successor	Date of Successor's Installation
District 16		Smith resigned November 19, 1876.		January 14, 1879^[2]
District 28	William Henry Crain	Crain resigned August 20, 1877.		January 14, 1879^[3]

^[4] Sworn in at the beginning of the Sixteenth Texas Legislature.

External links[]

Texas Legislature Online
Texas Senate
Texas House of Representatives
Election Results from the Office of the Secretary of State
Legislative Reference Library

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