14th Texas Legislature explained

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

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