The 23rd Utah Territorial Legislature met in 1878. The regular election for the House of Representatives was held August 7, 1876.[1] The regular election for the Territorial Council was held August 6, 1877.[2]
The legislative session convened on January 14, 1878, at the City Hall in Salt Lake City, and ended on February 23, 1878.[3] [4]
| Name | County | Office | Notes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Territorial Council: | |||||||
| Robert T. Burton | Salt Lake | ||||||
| Thomas Callister | Millard | ||||||
| William W. Cluff | Summit | ||||||
| Leonard E. Harrington | Utah | ||||||
| Alonzo M. Raleigh | Salt Lake | ||||||
| Silas S. Smith | Iron | ||||||
| William R. Smith | Davis | ||||||
| Abraham O. Smoot | Utah | ||||||
| Erastus Snow | Washington | ||||||
| Lorenzo Snow | Weber | President | |||||
| Moses Thatcher | Cache | ||||||
| Albert K. Thurber | Sanpete | ||||||
| John W. Young | Salt Lake | ||||||
| Territorial House of Representatives: | |||||||
| Samuel Atwood | Summit | ||||||
| Joseph Birch | Washington | ||||||
| John Brown | Utah | ||||||
| Albert Carrington | Salt Lake | ||||||
| Lorin Farr | Weber | ||||||
| John Fisher | Davis | ||||||
| Archibald Gardner | Salt Lake | ||||||
| Joel Grover | Juab | ||||||
| Abram Hatch | Wasatch | ||||||
| Francis M. Lyman | Millard | ||||||
| John B. Milner | Utah | ||||||
| John R. Murdock | Beaver | ||||||
| William B. Pace | Utah | ||||||
| D. H. Peery | Weber | ||||||
| Canute Peterson | Sanpete | ||||||
| Orson Pratt | Salt Lake | Speaker | |||||
| William B. Preston | Cache | ||||||
| Albert P. Rockwood | Salt Lake | ||||||
| James Sharp | Salt Lake | ||||||
| Willard G. Smith | Morgan | ||||||
| Franklin Spencer | Sanpete | ||||||
| John Taylor | Salt Lake | ||||||
| George R. Warren | Tooele | ||||||
| Francis Webster | Iron | ||||||
| Jonathan C. Wright | Box Elder | ||||||
| Brigham Young Jr. | Cache | ||||||