8th Texas Legislature

The 8th Texas Legislature met from November 7, 1859 to April 9, 1861 in its regular session, a first called session, and an adjourned session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1859.

Sessions

• 8th Regular session: November 7, 1859 – February 13, 1860
• 8th First called session: January 21–February 9, 1861
• 8th Adjourned session: March 18–April 9, 1861

Officers

Senate

Lieutenant Governor: Edward Clark, Democrat

President pro tempore: Jesse Grimes, Democrat, Regular session

House of Representatives

Speaker of the House : M. D. K. Taylor, Democrat

Members

Members of the Eighth Texas Legislature at the beginning of the regular session, November 7, 1859:

Senate

House of Representatives

• Basilio Benavides
• Anthony Martin Branch
• Kindallis Bryan
• Constantine W. Buckley
• William Clark
• David B. Culberson
• Nicholas Henry Darnell
• John Wilson Davis, Jr.
• Isaac N. Dennis
• David Catchings Dickson
• Edward Dougherty
• Foscue
• James Carlton Francis
• Benjamin Cromwell Franklin
• De Witt Clinton Fort
• Lindsay Hagler, San Patricio County
• James Marshall Harrison
• John L. Haynes
• J. W. Henderson
• Alfred Marmaduke Hobby
• Richard Bennett Hubbard, Jr.
• Henry Lawrence Kinney
• Francis J. Lynch
• John Haywood Manley
• Samuel Maverick
• John N. McClarty
• George McKnight
• Roger Q. Mills
• William Wright Morris
• Titus H. Mundine
• José Ángel Navarro
• Allison Nelson
• Anthony Banning Norton
• Benjamin F. Parker
• Samuel Redgate
• Joel Walter Robison
• Shelton
• Daniel McDowell Short
• John Dennis Stell
• M. D. K. Taylor
• Robert H. Taylor
• Robert J. Townes
• Jacob Waelder
• Charles A. Warfield
• George Washington Whitmore
• William Amos Wortham
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Wrede, Jr.

Membership changes

Senate

• District 15: Sexton did not return from Confederate States Army service in time to meet with the legislature.
• District 25: Shelley elected in special election held March 25, 1861 and sworn in with the Ninth Texas Legislature.

House of Representatives

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