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17th Texas Legislature
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The 17th Texas Legislature met from January 11, 1881, to May 5, 1882, 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 1880 General Election.
Sessions
- 17th Regular session: January 11–April 1, 1881
- 17th First called session: April 6–May 5, 1882
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Officers
Senate
- Lieutenant Governor
- Leonidas Jefferson Storey, Democrat
- President pro tempore
- Edwin Hobby, Democrat, Regular session
- Francis Marion Martin, Democrat, ad interim, First called session
House of Representatives
- Speaker of the House
- George Robertson Reeves, Democrat
Members
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Members of the Seventeenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, January 11, 1881:
Senate
House of Representatives
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- Benjamin M. Baker
- Thomas Beck
- William John Caven
- R. J. Evans
- George Finlay
- George Washington Lafayette Fly
- Lafayette Lumpkin Foster
- Charles Reese Gibson
- Andrew Jackson Harris
- William Kercheval Homan
- Joseph Chappell Hutcheson
- Robert A. Kerr
- Fergus Kyle
- Felix J. McCord
- Absolom C. Oliver
- Henry Joseph Richarz
- Thomas A. Rodríguez
- George Robertson Reeves
- Benjamin Dudley Tarlton
- George T. Todd
- Arthur Tompkins
- John Henry Traylor
- James W. Truitt
- William Wallace Weatherred
- Charles Louis Wurzbach
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