# 21st Texas Legislature

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

| Affiliation | Members |
| Democratic Party | 90 |
| Republican Party | 3 |
| Independent | 1 |
| Total | 94 |

## Officers
### Senate

* Lieutenant Governor: Thomas Benton Wheeler, Democrat
* President pro tempore:
** Henry D. McDonald, Democrat, Regular session
** 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:
* Leonard Anderson Abercrombie, Democrat
* William Allen, Unaffiliated
* William T. Armistead, Democrat
* Edwin Augustus Atlee, Democrat
* William H. Burges, Democrat
* Robert H. Burney, Democrat
* John Marshall Claiborne, Democrat
* John Walter Cranford, Democrat
* William Wallace Davis, Democrat
* Elbridge Geary Douglass, Democrat
* Scott Field, Democrat
* Louis Napoleon Frank, Democrat
* George Washington Glasscock, Jr., Unaffiliated
* John H. Harrison, Democrat
* James Melville Ingram, Democrat
* James J. Jarvis, Democrat
* William C. "Cone" Johnson, Democrat
* R.S. Kimbrough, Democrat
* Jonathan Lane, Democrat
* Ernst Gustav Maetze, Democrat
* Henry D. McDonald, Democrat
* Robert Morris, Democrat
* William Henry Pope, Democrat
* Kennan Benjamin Seale, Democrat
* Henry Taylor Sims, Democrat
* John Hall Stephens, Democrat
* M.H. Townsend, Democrat
* George W. Tyler, Democrat
* Samuel Crockett Upshaw, Democrat
* William H. Woodward, Democrat

### House of Representatives

Members of the House of Representatives for the Twentieth Texas Legislature:
| District | Representative | City | County | Party | Took Office |
| 1 | Jerome Swinford | Orange | Orange | Democrat | January 8, 1889 |
| 2 | Travis Spraggin Cochran | Colita | Polk | Democrat | January 8, 1889 |
| 3 | Henry R. Ralph | Lewis Ferry | Jasper | Democrat | January 8, 1889 |
| 4 | James Linn Crossland | Douglass | Nacogdoches | Democrat | January 8, 1889 (prior: 1879–1881) |
| 5 | John P. Childers | San Augustine | San Augustine | Democrat | January 8, 1889 |
| 6 | Robert Teague Milner | Henderson | Rusk | Democrat | January 11, 1887 |
| 7 | J. Ras Jones | Pinehill | Panola | Democrat | January 13, 1885 |
| 8 | George Alexander Newton | Mount Selman | Cherokee | Democrat | January 11, 1887 (prior: 1883–1885) |
| 9 | Joseph Addison Johnson | Bethel | Anderson | Democrat | 1889 |
| 10 | Joseph Blakey Bishop | Athens | Henderson | Democrat | 1889 |
| 11 | Abram Dallas Martin | Pittsburg | Camp | Democrat | 1889 |
| 12 | Benjamin Green Selman | Tyler | Smith | Democrat | 1889 |
| 13 | William Filmore Murchison | Auga | Houston | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1895–1897) |
| 14 | Alexander J. Pope | Marshall | Harrison | Democrat | 1887 |
| 15 | Louis P. Wilson | Marshall | Harrison | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1883–1885) |
| 16 | Lucius Adolphus Whatley | Atlanta | Cass | Democrat | 1887 |
| 17 | James Dudley Carwile | Atlanta | Cass | Democrat | 1889 |
| 17 | Blair McGee | New Boston | Bowie | Democrat | 1889 |
| 18 | Albert S. Bailey | Detroit | Red River | Democrat | 1889 |
| 19 | William Joseph Johnson | Mount Pleasant | Titus | Democrat | 1889 |
| 20 | Mordecai James Hathaway | Paris | Lamar | Democrat | 1889 |
| 21 | William Jordan Hood | Savoy | Fannin | Democrat | 1889 |
| 22 | Thomas Henry Hayes | Paris | Lamar | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1874–1876) |
| 23 | George Jefferson Woodruff | Racetrack | Delta | Democrat | 1889 |
| 24 | John McCullough Melson | Pickton | Hopkins | Democrat | 1887 |
| 25 | Frank P. Alexander | Greenville | Hunt | Democrat | 1885 |
| 26 | Thomas Jefferson Towles | Canton | Van Zandt | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1876–1879) |
| 27 | John Haywood Tolbert | Howe | Grayson | Democrat | 1887 |
| 27 | Thomas Jefferson Brown | Sherman | Grayson | Democrat | 1889 |
| 28 | Robert Donaldson Allison | McKinney | Collin | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1876–1879, 1884–1885) |
| 29 | Joseph Warren Jagoe | Denton | Denton | Democrat | 1889 |
| 30 | James William Campbell | Gainesville | Cooke | Democrat | 1889 |
| 31 | Jesse Craft Murrell | Coesfield | Cooke | Democrat | 1889 |
| 32 | Alvin Clark Owsley | Denton | Denton | Democrat | 1889 |
| 33 | Jesse Munroe Strong | Dallas | Dallas | Democrat | 1887 |
| 33 | James Franklin Rowland | Richardson | Dallas | Democrat | 1889 |
| 34 | Isaac Duke Parker | Birdville | Tarrant | Democrat | 1889 |
| 35 | James W. Crayton | Fate | Rockwall | Democrat | 1889 |
| 36 | Andrew Jackson Brown | Alvarado | Johnson | Democrat | 1889 |
| 37 | William Lee Wood | Palmer | Ellis | Democrat | 1887 |
| 38 | James McCullough Wilson | Whitney | Hill | Democrat | 1889 |
| 39 | Samuel Romulus Frost | Corsicana | Navarro | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1879–1881) |
| 40 | William McGaughey | Granbury | Hood | Democrat | 1885 |
| 40 | Jesse Jenkins | Meridian | Bosque | Democrat | 1889 |
| 41 | John Alexander Hudson | Marmaduke | Wise | Democrat | 1889 |
| 42 | Charles Ulrich Connellee | Eastland | Eastland | Democrat | 1889 |
| 43 | Alfred Tolar | Abilene | Taylor | Democrat | 1889 |
| 44 | Rufus Burrow Lankford | Bowie | Montague | Democrat | 1889 |
| 45 | George Bibb Pickett | Decatur | Wise | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1874–1881) |
| 46 | Albert Stevenson | Weatherford | Parker | Democrat | 1889 |
| 47 | James Eldrage Dillard | Kaufman | Kaufman | Democrat | 1889 |
| 48 | Alexander Asberry | Calvert | Robertson | Republican | 1889 |
| 49 | William Ambrose Sevier Cobb | Rogers Prairie | Leon | Democrat | 1889 |
| 50 | Elias Mayes | Bryan | Brazos | Republican | 1889 (prior: 1879–1881) |
| 51 | Henry Lee Lewis | Hearne | Robertson | Democrat | 1889 |
| 52 | William Leonidas Campbell | Anderson | Grimes | Democrat | 1889 |
| 53 | James Wesson Parker | Richmond | Fort Bend | Democrat | 1887 |
| 54 | James A. Breeding | Houston | Harris | Democrat | 1889 |
| 54 | William Wyatt Dawson | Trinity | Trinity | Democrat | 1889 |
| 54 | William Perry McComb | Montgomery | Montgomery | Democrat | 1889 |
| 55 | James Wright Cook | Mooresville | Falls | Independent | 1889 |
| 56 | Benjamin Josephus Roop | Temple | Bell | Democrat | 1889 |
| 57 | James Madison McKinney | Jones Prairie | Milam | Democrat | 1885 |
| 58 | James Isom Moody | Mexia | Limestone | Democrat | 1889 |
| 59 | George Walton White | Dew | Freestone | Democrat | 1889 |
| 60 | Jehu Brown | Kerens | Navarro | Democrat | 1889 |
| 61 | Seth Phineas Mills | Speegleville | McLennan | Democrat | 1887 (prior: 1879–1881) |
| 62 | William Abraham Kincaid | Groesbeck | Limestone | Democrat | 1889 |
| 63 | Crocket McDonald King | Leon Junction | Coryell | Democrat | 1889 |
| 64 | Guy Morrison Bryan | Galveston | Galveston | Democrat | 1888 (prior: 1847–1853, 1874–1876, 1879–1881) |
| 65 | Walter Gresham | Galveston | Galveston | Democrat | 1887 |
| 66 | Richard Henry Douglass Sorrell II | Wharton | Wharton | Democrat | 1889 |
| 67 | Ibzan William Middlebrook | Columbus | Colorado | Democrat | 1889 |
| 68 | Robert Watson Thompson | Nelsonville | Austin | Democrat | 1889 |
| 69 | James Franklin Overton | Hackberry | Lavaca | Democrat | 1889 |
| 70 | James Foster McGuire | Ledbetter | Fayette | Democrat | 1887 |
| 70 | Charles B. Welhausen | Flatonia | Fayette | Democrat | 1889 |
| 71 | Myers Felder | Chappell Hill | Washington | Democrat | 1889 |
| 72 | Jacob A. Fields | Giddings | Lee | Democrat | 1889 |
| 73 | James Madison Renick | Lexington | Lee | Democrat | 1889 |
| 74 | James M. Robinson | Red Rock | Bastrop | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1883–1887) |
| 75 | Felix Ezell Smith | Bluff Springs | Travis | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1874–1876, 1879–1881, 1883–1887) |
| 75 | William Robert Hamby | Austin | Travis | Democrat | 1889 |
| 76 | Norton Moses | Strickling | Burnet | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1876–1879) |
| 77 | Martin McFerrin Hancock | Goldthwaite | Brown | Democrat | 1889 |
| 78 | James Henry Faubion | Leander | Williamson | Democrat | 1885 |
| 79 | Simeon Whitted | Bowser Bend | San Saba | Democrat | 1889 |
| 80 | George Bush Stevenson | El Paso | El Paso | Democrat | 1889 |
| 81 | Blucher Erskine | Derby | Frio | Democrat | 1889 |
| 82 | Wilbur McDonald | Stockdale | Wilson | Democrat | 1889 |
| 83 | Thomas W. Kennedy | Rio Grande City | Starr | Democrat | 1885 |
| 83 | Albert Urbahn | Laredo | Webb | Democrat | 1889 |
| 84 | William A. Williamson | Junction City | Kimble | Democrat | 1889 |
| 85 | John J. Rhodes | Millett | La Salle | Democrat | 1889 |
| 86 | David Crawford Robinson | San Antonio | Bexar | Democrat | 1887 |
| 86 | William Frederick Miller | Converse | Bexar | Democrat | 1889 |
| 87 | Edward LeGrand Dunlap | Victoria | Victoria | Democrat | 1889 |
| 87 | Vachel Weldon | Cuero | DeWitt | Democrat | 1889 |
| 88 | Robert Byron Rentfro | Brownsville | Cameron | Republican | 1889 |
| 89 | William Clemens | New Braunfels | Comal | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1879–1881) |
| 90 | James William Peebles | Leesville | Gonzales | Democrat | 1889 |
| 91 | Jacob Lewis Ellison | Martindale | Caldwell | Democrat | 1887 |
| 91 | George McGehee | San Marcos | Hays | Democrat | 1887 |
| 92 | William Hamblen | Houston | Harris | Democrat | 1889 |
| 93 | Richard Butt Levy | Longview | Gregg | Democrat | 1889 |
| 94 | Joseph Wesley Humphrey | Point | Rains | Democrat | 1889 (prior: 1885–1887) |
^ These are multimember or flotorial districts.

## Membership Changes

Unknown