The 21st Texas Legislature met from January 8 to April 6, 1889, in regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and a portion of the members of the Senate were elected in the
1888 general election.
Sessions
* 20th Regular session: January 8, 1889 – April 6, 1889
Party summary
House of Representatives
Officers
Senate
* Lieutenant Governor:
Thomas Benton Wheeler
Thomas Benton Wheeler (June 7, 1840 – February 21, 1913) was an American judge and politician who served as the 16th lieutenant governor of Texas as a member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic party from 1887 to 1891.
Early ...
, Democrat
* President ''pro tempore'':
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Henry D. McDonald, Democrat, Regular session
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William H. Burges, Democrat, ''ad interim''
House of Representatives
* Speaker of the House:
Frank P. Alexander, Democrat
Members
Senate
Members of the Texas Senate for the Twenty-first Texas Legislature:
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Leonard Anderson Abercrombie, Democrat
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William Allen, Unaffiliated
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William T. Armistead, Democrat
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Edwin Augustus Atlee, Democrat
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William H. Burges, Democrat
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Robert H. Burney, Democrat
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John Marshall Claiborne, Democrat
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John Walter Cranford, Democrat
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William Wallace Davis, Democrat
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Elbridge Geary Douglass, Democrat
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Scott Field, Democrat
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Louis Napoleon Frank, Democrat
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George Washington Glasscock, Jr., Unaffiliated
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John H. Harrison, Democrat
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James Melville Ingram, Democrat
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James J. Jarvis, Democrat
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William C. "Cone" Johnson, Democrat
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R.S. Kimbrough
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, Democrat
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Jonathan Lane, Democrat
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Ernst Gustav Maetze, Democrat
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Henry D. McDonald, Democrat
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Robert Morris
Robert or Bob Morris may refer to:
:''Ordered chronologically within each section.'' Politics and the law
* Robert Hunter Morris (1700–1764), lieutenant governor of Colonial Pennsylvania
* Robert Morris (financier) (1734–1806), one of the Foun ...
, Democrat
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William Henry Pope, Democrat
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Kennan Benjamin Seale, Democrat
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Henry Taylor Sims, Democrat
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John Hall Stephens, Democrat
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M.H. Townsend, Democrat
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George W. Tyler, Democrat
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Samuel Crockett Upshaw, Democrat
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William H. Woodward, Democrat
House of Representatives
Members of the House of Representatives for the Twentieth Texas Legislature:
These are multimember or flotorial districts.
Membership Changes
Unknown
External links
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21st Texas Legislature
1889 in Texas
1889 U.S. legislative sessions