3rd Texas Legislature

The 3rd Texas Legislature met from November 5, 1849 to December 3, 1850 in its regular session and two called sessions. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1849.

Sessions

• 3rd Regular session: November 5, 1849 – February 11, 1850
• 3rd First called session: August 12, 1850 – September 6, 1850
• 3rd Second called session: November 18, 1850 – December 3, 1850

Party summary

Officers

Senate

Lieutenant Governor

John Alexander Greer, Democrat

President pro tempore

Edward Burleson, Democrat

House of Representatives

Speaker of the House

Charles G. Keenan, Democrat

Members

Senate

Members of the Texas Senate for the Third Texas Legislature:

District	Senator	Party	Took office
1	Matthias Ward	Democrat	1849
2	Albert Hamilton Latimer	Democrat	1849
3	Hart Hardin	Democrat	1849
4	Albert Gallitan Walker	Democrat	1849
	Samuel R. Campbell	Democrat	1850
5	David Gage	Democrat	1847
6	James F. Taylor	Democrat	1849
7	Alfred M. Truitt	Democrat	1849
8	John H. McRae	Democrat	1847
9	John H. Moffitt	Democrat	1849
10	Isaac Parker	Democrat	1847
11	John B. Jones	Democrat	1849
	Elisha Marshall Pease	Democrat	1849
12	Isaac Wright Brashear	Democrat	1846
13	Jesse Grimes	Democrat	1846
14	Jerome Bonaparte "Polly" Robertson	Democrat	1849
15	Wilds K. Cooke	Democrat	1849
16	Edward Burleson	Democrat	1846
17	David Young Portis	Democrat	1849
18	Alexander H. Phillips	Democrat	1846
19	Henry Lawrence Kinney	Democrat	1846
20	David Campbell Van Derlip	Democrat	1849
21	Henry Clay Davis	Democrat	1849
22	Benjamin Rush Wallace	Democrat	1846

House of Representatives

Members of the House of Representatives for the Third Texas Legislature:

District	Representative	Party	Term start	Term end	Counties Represented
1	Burrell Perry Smith	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Red River
2	Hardin Richard Runnels	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 21, 1850	Bowie, Red River
3	James S. Gillet	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Lamar
4	Alfred Elkins Pace	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	September 7, 1850	Fannin
	Vacant	—	September 7, 1850	November 18, 1850
	Harrison G. Hendricks	[data missing]	November 18, 1850	November 3, 1851
5	William M. Williams	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Fannin, Lamar
6	Samuel Bogart	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Collin, Grayson
7	William M. Cochran	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Dallas, Denton
8	Johnson Wren	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Hopkins, Hunt
9	Joshua F. Johnson	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Titus
10	Marion DeKalb Taylor	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Cass
11	Jeremiah M. Clough	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	September 6, 1850	Harrison
	Vacant	—	September 6, 1850	November 18, 1850
	Louis Trezevant Wigfall	[data missing]	November 18, 1850	November 3, 1851
12	John H. McNairy	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	July 22, 1850	Harrison, Upshur
	Vacant	—	July 22, 1850	November 18, 1850
	Joseph Taylor	[data missing]	November 18, 1850	November 3, 1851
13	Emory Lloyd	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Rusk
14	James K. Holland	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Panola, Rusk
15	Elisha Everett Lott	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Henderson, Smith
16	Benjamin F. Selman	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Cherokee
17	William N. Hardeman	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Nacogdoches
18	William G. W. Jowers	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Anderson, Houston
19	Nicholas Adolphus Sterne	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Houston, Nacogdoches
20	John Polk Jr.	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	San Augustine
21	Josiah M. Smith	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Shelby
22	Edgar A. Whittlesey	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	July 14, 1850	Newton, Sabine
	Vacant	—	July 14, 1850	August 16, 1850
	Joshua H. Speights	[data missing]	August 16, 1850	November 3, 1851
23	Napoleon Bonaparte Charlton	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Jasper, Jefferson, Tyler
24	William Fields	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Liberty, Polk
25	Benjamin Cromwell Franklin	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Galveston
	Thomas Freeman McKinney	[data missing]	November 21, 1849	November 3, 1851
26	J. M. Reynolds	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Harris
	John Shea	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851
	James W. Scott	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851
27	Guy Morrison Bryan	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Brazoria, Fort Bend
28	David Catchings Dickson	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Grimes, Montgomery
29	Charles Gradison Keenan	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Walker
'30	Elliott M. Millican	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	July 15, 1850	Brazos, Leon, Robertson
	Vacant	—	July 15, 1850	November 18, 1850
	John Patrick	[data missing]	November 18, 1850	November 3, 1851
31	Edward H. Tarrant	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Limestone, Navarro
32	James Charles Wilson	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	October 15, 1850	Calhoun, Jackson, Matagorda, Wharton
	Vacant	—	October 15, 1850	November 18, 1850
	Clark L. Owen	[data missing]	November 18, 1850	November 3, 1851
33	William Edmund Crump	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	October 13, 1850	Austin, Colorado
	Vacant	—	October 13, 1850	November 18, 1850
	Zimri Hunt	[data missing]	November 18, 1850	November 3, 1851
34	William J. Russell	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Fayette
35	Benjamin E. Tarver	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	July 21, 1850	Washington
	Vacant	—	July 21, 1850	August 12, 1850
	James E. Shepard	[data missing]	August 12, 1850	November 3, 1851
	James G. Sheppard	[data missing]	August 12, 1850	November 3, 1851
36	James Shaw	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Bastrop, Burleson
37	George E. Burney	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Milam, Williamson
38	Thomas M. Hardeman	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Caldwell, Hays, Travis
39	Darwin M. Stapp	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	DeWitt, Lavaca, Victoria
40	William H. Stewart	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Comal, Gonzales, Guadalupe
41	William G. Crump	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Bexar
	Henry M. Lewis	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851
42	Reuben E. Clements	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Cameron, Nueces, Starr, Webb
43	Hamilton Prioleau Bee	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Cameron, Goliad, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Starr, Webb
44	Edward H. Winfield	[data missing]	November 5, 1849	November 3, 1851	Cameron, Starr, Webb

Membership Changes

Senate

District	Outgoing Senator	Reason for Vacancy	Successor	Date of Successor's Installation
District 4	Albert G. Walker	Senator Walker resigned March 30, 1850	Samuel R. Campbell	August 12, 1850
District 6	James F. Taylor	Senator Taylor resigned October 5, 1850.	James F. Taylor	November 18, 1850
District 11	John B. Jones	In an election contest, Elisha M. Pease unseated Senator Jones on November 9, 1849.	Elisha M. Pease	November 9, 1849

• ^ Campbell was elected in a special election on July 22, 1850.
• ^ After his resignation, Taylor was reelected in a special election.

External links

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