14th Texas Legislature

The 14th Texas Legislature met from January 13, 1874 to March 15, 1875 in two regular sessions. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1873.

Sessions

• 14th First regular session: January 13–May 4, 1874
• 14th Second regular session: January 12–March 15, 1875

Party summary

Officers

Senate

Lieutenant Governor

Richard Bennett Hubbard, Jr.

President pro tempore (Lieutenant Governor ex officio)

Edward Bradford Pickett, Democrat

House of Representatives

Speaker of the House

Guy Morrison Bryan, Democrat

Members

Members of the Fourteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, January 13, 1874:

Senate

District	Senator	Party	Took office
1	Edwin Hobby	Democrat	1873
2	William H. Swift	Democrat	1871
3	James Eldrage Dillard	Democrat	1871
4	Winfield B. Stirman	Democrat	1873
5	David Webster Flanagan	Republican	1870
6	John Lafayette Camp	Democrat	1873
7	David Browning Culberson	Democrat	1873
8	Cader A. Parker	Democrat	1873
9	L. D. Bradley	Democrat	1873
10	Joseph Morris	Democrat	1873
11	William E. Moore	Democrat	1873
12	Vacant		1873
13	Walter Moses Burton	Republican	1873
14	William R. Baker	Democrat	1873
15	Edward T. Randle	Republican	1872
16	T. G. Davidson	Republican	1873
17	Jewett H. Davenport	Democrat	1873
18	William D. Wood	Democrat	1873
19	George Bernard Erath	Democrat	1873 (Prior: 1857–1863)
20	Amzi Bradshaw	Democrat	1873
21	Robert D. Allison	Democrat	1873
22	William H. Trolinger	Democrat	1873
23	Andrew J. Ball	Democrat	1872
24	William R. Friend	Democrat	1873
25	Olinthus Ellis	Democrat	1873
26	William Hamilton Ledbetter	Democrat	1873
27	John Ireland	Democrat	1873
28	William H. Westfall	Democrat	1873
29	Joseph E. Dwyer	Democrat	1873
30	William Jarvis Russell, Jr.	Democrat	1873

• ^ Benjamin Cromwell Franklin was elected, but died on December 25, 1873, 2½ weeks before the start of the Regular Session.

House of Representatives

• David Abner, Sr.
• Decimus et Ultimus Barziza
• Thomas Beck
• Joseph Brown
• Ed Brown
• Guy Morrison Bryan
• John Hughes Cochran
• William Shelby Delaney
• James Eastland
• Lochlin Johnson Farrar
• Jacob E. Freeman
• James L. German
• James Marshall Harrison
• Thomas Hayes
• John Mitchell
• William Wilson Patrick, Robertson County
• Frank Rainey
• Meshack Roberts
• Lieuen Morgan Rogers
• Felix Ezell Smith
• Charles Bellinger Tate Stewart
• William Jesse Swain
• John Files Tom
• George Pickett
• William Amos Wortham

Membership Changes

District	Outgoing Senator	Reason for Vacancy	Successor	Date of Successor's Installation
District 6	John Lafayette Camp	Camp resigned March 13, 1875.	Vacant
District 7	David Browning Culberson	Culberson resigned March 3, 1875.	Vacant
District 12	Vacant	Benjamin Cromwell Franklin, member-elect, died December 25, 1873.	Thomas Miller Joseph	March 19, 1874
District 16	T. G. Davidson	Davidson refused to qualify January 14, 1874.	Seth Shepard	March 26, 1874
District 22	William H. Trolinger	Trolinger resigned before January 25, 1875.	N. S. Craven	January 25, 1875

• ^ District 16: Shepard elected in special election February 17, 1874, seated March 26, 1874 after election contest with Matthew Gaines

External links

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