15th Texas Legislature

The 15th Texas Legislature met from April 18 to August 21, 1876, in its regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1875.

• 15th Regular session: April 18 – August 21, 1876

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Lieutenant Governor

Richard Bennett Hubbard, Jr., Democrat

President pro tempore

Wells Thompson, Democrat

Speaker of the House

Thomas Reuben Bonner, Democrat

Members of the Fifteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, April 18, 1876:

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• Robert D. Allison
• Benjamin M. Baker
• Decimus et Ultimus Barziza
• Thomas Reuben Bonner
• John Hughes Cochran
• Nicholas Henry Darnell
• Thomas Mason Dennis
• Caleb Jackson Garrison
• John Summerfield Griffith
• William H. Holland
• Alexander Horton
• William W. Lang
• Norton Moses
• George Pickett
• Meshack Roberts
• William Long Rogers
• Henry Sneed
• Elias Charles Stuart
• Thomas Towles
• John Quitman Wall
• Allen W. Wilder^[1]
• Charles Louis Wurzbach

Logan Henderson McCorkle, Sulphur Springs

^ Representative Wilder won a closely contested election, but House Democrats contended that some votes were illegal and seated his Democratic opponent instead.

• ^[4] Sworn in at the beginning of the Sixteenth Texas Legislature.

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