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15th Texas Legislature
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The 15th 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
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Officers
Senate
- Lieutenant Governor
- Richard Bennett Hubbard, Jr., Democrat
- President pro tempore
- Wells Thompson, Democrat
House of Representatives
- Speaker of the House
- Thomas Reuben Bonner, Democrat
Members
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Members of the Fifteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, April 18, 1876:
Senate
House of Representatives
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- Robert D. Allison
- Benjamin M. Baker
- Decimus et Ultimus Barziza
- Thomas Reuben Bonner
- John Hughes Cochran
- Nicholas Henry Darnell
- Thomas Mason Dennis
- Caleb Jackson Garrison
- John Summerfield Griffith
- William H. Holland
- Alexander Horton
- William W. Lang
- Norton Moses
- George Pickett
- Meshack Roberts
- William Long Rogers
- Henry Sneed
- Elias Charles Stuart
- Thomas Towles
- John Quitman Wall
- Allen W. Wilder
- Charles Louis Wurzbach
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.
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Membership changes
- Sworn in at the beginning of the Sixteenth Texas Legislature.
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