Texas's 62nd House of Representatives district explained

State:	Texas
Percent Asian:	1.7
Voting Age:	144,154
Population Year:	2020
Population:	186,794
Percent Hispanic:	14.4
District:	62
Percent Black:	7.2
Percent White:	71.9
Residence:	Sherman
Party:	Republican
Representative:	Reggie Smith
Chamber:	House of Representatives

District 62 is a district of the Texas House of Representatives that serves all of Grayson, Franklin, Fannin, and Delta Counties. This district had its first representative in 1853.^[1] The current representative for District 62 is Republican Reggie Smith.^{[2] [3]}

Representatives^[4]

Leg.	Representative	Party	Term start	Term end	Counties represented
5th	Stephen Heard Darden	Unknown	November 7, 1853	November 5, 1855	Gonzales
6th			November 5, 1855	November 2, 1857
7th	Albert Nelson Mills		November 2, 1875	November 7, 1859
8th	William Henry Stewart		November 7, 1859	November 4, 1861
9th	William P. McLean		November 4, 1861	January 7, 1862	Calhoun, DeWitt, Jackson, Victoria
	F.M. Taylor		November 4, 1861	November 2, 1863
	Jacob B. Reid		February 2, 1863	November 2, 1863
10th			November 2, 1863	August 6, 1866
	William M. Cook		November 2, 1863	August 6, 1866
11th	Truman Phelps		August 6, 1866	February 7, 1870
	James M. Baker		September 6, 1866	February 7, 1870
15th	Oliver H.P. McGinnis		Democratic	April 18, 1876	January 14, 1879	Bastrop
16th	Benjamin Franklin Jones	Unaffiliated	January 14, 1879	January 11, 1881
	Robert A. Kerr	Greenback Party	January 11, 1881	January 9, 1883
18th	Lafayette Lumpkin Foster	Democratic	January 9, 1883	January 13, 1885	Falls Limestone McLennan
19th		January 13, 1885	January 11, 1887
20th	Albert Collins Prendergast	January 11, 1887	January 8, 1889
21st	William Abraham Kincaid	January 8, 1889	January 13, 1891
22nd	Francis Marion Sellers	January 13, 1891	January 10, 1893
23rd	Thomas Stalworth Henderson	January 10, 1893	January 8, 1895	Milam
24th	H.F. Smith	January 8, 1895	January 12, 1897
25th	Nathaniel Hardcastle Tracy	January 12, 1897	January 10, 1899
26th	Oscar Fides McAnally	January 10, 1899	January 8, 1901
27th		January 8, 1901	January 13, 1903
28th	William F. Robertson	January 13, 1903	January 10, 1905	Williamson
29th	Samuel David Davis	January 10, 1905	January 8, 1907
30th		January 8, 1907	January 12, 1909
31st	W.S. Brookshire	January 12, 1909	January 10, 1911
32nd		January 10, 1911	January 14, 1913
33rd	M. C. Fields	January 14, 1913	August 30, 1913	Falls
	James Millard Kennedy	September 9, 1914	January 12, 1915
34th	Julius Rector	January 12, 1915	January 9, 1917
35th	Charles Barrett Monday	January 9, 1917	January 14, 1919
36th	E. H. Childers	January 14, 1919	January 11, 1921
37th		January 11, 1921	January 9, 1923
38th	Andrew Connolly Dunn	January 9, 1923	January 13, 1925
39th		January 13, 1925	January 11, 1927
40th	Joseph Charles Kennedy	January 11, 1927	January 8, 1929
41st		January 8, 1929	January 13, 1931
42nd		January 13, 1931	January 10, 1933
43rd	William Elias Hodges	January 10, 1933	January 8, 1935
44th		January 8, 1935	January 12, 1937
45th	Albert L. Derden	January 12, 1937	January 10, 1939
46th		January 10, 1939	January 14, 1941
47th	Warren H. Henderson	January 14, 1941	January 12, 1943
48th	Luman A. Parton	January 12, 1943	January 9, 1945
49th		January 9, 1945	January 14, 1947
50th	Frank Calvert Oltorf	January 14, 1947	January 11, 1949
51st		January 11, 1949	January 9, 1951
52nd	William Earl Osborn	January 9, 1951	January 13, 1953
53rd	Wilbur Wright Perry	January 13, 1953	January 11, 1955	Bosque Coryell Erath Hamilton
54th	James W. "Bill" Shannon	January 11, 1955	January 8, 1957
55th		January 8, 1957	January 13, 1959
56th	Harold Adair Leaverton	January 13, 1959	January 10, 1961
57th		January 10, 1961	January 8, 1963
58th	James Madison Cotten	January 8, 1963	January 12, 1965	Hood, Parker, Wise
59th	Thomas Howard Holmes Jr.	January 12, 1965	January 10, 1967
63rd	Frank Wayne Calhoun	January 9, 1973	January 14, 1975	Taylor
64th	David Graves Stubbeman	January 14, 1975	January 11, 1977
65th		January 11, 1977	January 9, 1979
66th	Gary Eugene Thompson	January 9, 1979	January 13, 1981
67th		January 13, 1981	January 11, 1983
68th	Robert Grammar Bush III	January 11, 1983	January 8, 1985	Collin, Grayson
69th		January 8, 1985	January 13, 1987
70th	Curtis Lee Seidlits Jr.	January 13, 1987	January 10, 1989
71st		January 10, 1989	January 8, 1991
72nd		January 8, 1991	January 12, 1993
73rd		January 12, 1993	January 10, 1995	Cooke, Grayson
74th		January 10, 1995	February 3, 1996
	Roger D. Sanders	May 17, 1996	January 14, 1997
75th	Ron Clark	Republican	January 14, 1997		January 12, 1999
76th		January 12, 1999	January 9, 2001
77th		January 9, 2001	November 21, 2002
78th	Larry Phillips	January 14, 2003	January 11, 2005	Fannin, Grayson
79th		January 11, 2005	January 9, 2007
80th		January 9, 2007	January 13, 2009
81st		January 13, 2009	January 11, 2011
82nd		January 11, 2011	January 8, 2013
83rd		January 8, 2013	January 13, 2015	Delta, Fannin, Grayson
84th		January 13, 2015	January 10, 2017
85th		January 10, 2017	April 30, 2018
86th	Reggie Smith	January 8, 2019	Present
87th		January 12, 2021	Present
88th	TBD	TBD	2023	2025	Delta, Fannin, Grayson, Franklin

Notes and References

1. Web site: Legislative Reference Library | Legislators and Leaders | Texas Legislators: Past & Present.
2. Web site: Texas House of Representatives District 62. 2021-11-02. Ballotpedia. en.
3. Web site: District Population Analysis with County Subtotals. data.capitol.texas.gov.
4. Web site: Past Representatives from the 62nd house district. lrl.texas.gov.