Second Texas Legislature

The Second Texas Legislature met from December 13, 1847 to March 20, 1848 in regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1847.

Sessions

• 2nd Regular session: December 13, 1847 – March 20, 1848

Officers

Senate

Lieutenant Governor

John Alexander Greer, Democrat

President pro tempore

Edward Burleson, Democrat

House of Representatives

Speaker of the House 

James Wilson Henderson, Democrat

Members

Senate

Members of the Texas Senate for the Second Texas Legislature:

District	Senator	Party	Took office
1	William M. “Buckskin” Williams		1846
2	James B. Wootten		1847
3	Edward Clark	Democrat	1847
4	Isaac Parker		1847
5	Benjamin Rush Wallace		1846
6	John H. McRae		1847
7	William C. Abbott		1847
8	Henry J. Jewett		1846
9	Jesse Grimes		1846
10	Isaac W. Brashear		1846
11	Richard Bache, Jr.		1847
12	Stephen W. Perkins		1847
13	Philip Minor Cuney		1847
14	John Winfield Scott Dancy		1847
15	Edward Burleson		1846
16	Robert McAlpin Williamson		1846
17	Alexander H. Phillips		1846
18	José Antonio Navarro		1846
19	Henry Lawrence Kinney		1846
F	James G. Bourland		1846

• ^ Bourland was a floating senator “conjointly” elected from Bowie, Red River, Fannin, and Lamar counties

House of Representatives

Members of the House of Representatives for the Second Texas Legislature:

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• James Armstrong
• John D. Anderson
• William H. Bourland, Democrat
• Guy Morrison Bryan, Democrat
• Jacob Raphael De Cordova
• Benjamin Holland Epperson
• Samuel G. Haynie
• James Wilson Henderson, Democrat
• Charles G. Keenan, Democrat
• Mirabeau B. Lamar
• Emory Rains, Democrat
• John Henninger Reagan, Democrat
• Thomas Jefferson Shannon
• Adolphus Sterne
• James Truitt, Democrat

Membership Changes

Senate

District	Outgoing Senator	Reason for Vacancy	Successor	Date of Successor's Installation
District 11	Richard Bache	Senator Bache died March 17, 1848	None
District 17	Alexander H. Phillips	Senator Phillips resigned March 1, 1848.	None
District 19	Henry Lawrence Kinney	Senator Kinney resigned before December 18, 1847.	Edward Fitzgerald	February 5, 1848
District 19	Edward Fitzgerald	Senator Fitzgerald resigned March 20, 1848.	None

External links

• Texas Legislature Online
• Texas Senate
• Texas House of Representatives
• Election Results from the Office of the Secretary of State
• Legislative Reference Library