title: Nineteenth Texas Legislature
text: # Nineteenth Texas Legislature
  
  The Nineteenth Texas Legislature met from January 13 to March 31, 1885 in its regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1884 General Election.
  
  ## Sessions
  
  * 19th Regular session: January 13–March 31, 1885
  
  ## Officers
  
  ### Senate
  
  **Lieutenant Governor**
  
  
      Barnett Gibbs, Democrat
  
  **President pro tempore**
  
  
      William R. Shannon, Democrat, Regular session
      Constantine Buckley "Buck" Kilgore, Democrat, ad interim
  
  ### House of Representatives
  
  **Speaker of the House**
  
  
      Lafayette Lumpkin Foster, Democrat
  
  ## Members
  
  Members of the Nineteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, January 13, 1885:
  
  ### Senate
  
  * Lochlin Johnson Farrar
  * George Washington Glasscock, Jr.
  * Temple Lea Houston
  * Constantine Buckley "Buck" Kilgore, Democrat, District 7
  * William R. Shannon
  * J. O. Terrell
  
  | District | Senator | Party | Took office |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | William L. Douglass | | 1885 |
  | 2 | Caleb Jackson Garrison | | 1885 |
  | 3 | William Henry Pope | Democrat | 1883 |
  | 4 | John A. Peacock | | 1883 |
  | 5 | Samuel D. Stinson | | 1885 |
  | 6 | John Lafayette Camp, Jr. | | 1885 |
  | 7 | Constantine Buckley "Buck" Kilgore | Democrat | 1885 |
  | 8 | Mansel Y. Randolph | | 1883 |
  | 9 | James W. Jones | | 1883 |
  | 10 | W. M. Jerdone | | 1885 |
  | 11 | John Woods | | 1885 |
  | 12 | Hermann Knittel | | 1885 |
  | 13 | John P. Fowler | | 1883 |
  | 14 | James S. Perry | | 1883 |
  | 15 | Lochlin Johnson Farrar | | 1883 |
  | 16 | J. O. Terrell | | 1885 |
  | 17 | John Johnson | | 1883 |
  | 18 | William O. Davis | | 1882 |
  | 19 | Temple Lea Houston | | 1885 |
  | 20 | William R. Shannon | Democrat | 1879 (Prior: 1865–1867) |
  | 21 | William H. Getzendaner | | 1883 |
  | 22 | Richard H. Harrison | | 1885 |
  | 23 | Charles Keith Bell | | 1885 |
  | 24 | George Washington Glasscock, Jr. | | 1885 |
  | 25 | George Pfeuffer | | 1883 |
  | 26 | Rudolph Kleberg | | 1883 |
  | 27 | E. F. Hall | | 1885 |
  | 28 | Augustus W. Houston | Democrat | 1879 |
  | 29 | James Henry Calhoun | | 1885 |
  | 30 | John Henry Traylor | | 1883 |
  | 31 | William A. Evans | | 1883 |
  
  ### House of Representatives
  
  Members of the House of Representatives for the Nineteenth Texas Legislature:
  
  * Frank P. Alexander
  * William T. Armistead
  * Edwin Augustus Atlee
  * James Browning
  * William John Caven
  * Daniel Darroch
  * James H. Faubion
  * Lafayette Lumpkin Foster
  * Adolph Carl Ludwig Groos
  * Travis Henderson
  * Joseph Humphrey
  * J. Ras Jones
  * Thomas W. Kennedy
  * Jesse P. Loving
  * William McGaughey
  * Andrew Todd McKinney
  * Robert J. Moore
  * E. Taylor Moore
  * George Cassety Pendleton
  * James M. Robinson
  * Felix Ezell Smith
  * Benjamin Dudley Tarlton
  * Ammon Underwood
  * Benjamin Franklin Williams
  * J.P. Blount
  
  ## Membership Changes
  
  ### Senate
  
  | District | Outgoing senator | Reason for vacancy | Successor |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | District 7 | Constantine Buckley "Buck" Kilgore | Kilgore resigned October 23, 1886 to seek election to the Fiftieth United States Congress | Vacant |
  | District 25 | George Pfeuffer | Pfeuffer died September 15, 1886 | Vacant |
  | District 26 | Rudolph Kleberg | Kleberg resigned September 9, 1886 | Vacant |
  | District 27 | E. F. Hall | Hall died April 28, 1886 | Vacant |
  
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