# 13th Texas Legislature

The 13th Texas Legislature met from January 14 to June 4, 1873 in its regular session. All members of the Texas House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Texas Senate were elected in 1872.

## Sessions

* 13th Regular session: January 14–June 4, 1873

## Officers
### Senate
#### Lieutenant Governor

    Vacant

#### President pro tempore (Lieutenant Governor ex officio)

    Edward Bradford Pickett, Democrat

### House of Representatives
#### Speaker of the House

    M. D. K. Taylor, Democrat

## Members

Members of the Thirteenth Texas Legislature at the beginning of the Regular Session, January 14, 1873:

### Senate

| District | Senator | Party | Took office |
| 1 | Edward Bradford Pickett | Democrat | 1870 |
| 2 | William H. Swift | Democrat | 1871 |
| 3 | James Elizer Dillard | Democrat | 1871 |
| 4 | Thomas J. Word | Democrat | 1872 |
| 5 | David Webster Flanagan | Republican | 1870 |
| 6 | John Lane Henry | Democrat | 1872 |
| 7 | Henry Rawson | Republican | 1870 |
| 8 | Hamilton J. Avinger | Democrat | 1872 |
| 9 | Henry Russell Latimer | Democrat | 1870 |
| 10 | David W. Cole | Democrat | 1870 |
| 11 | Ebenezer Lafayette Dohoney | Democrat | 1870 |
| 12 | George Thompson Ruby | Republican | 1870 |
| 13 | Francis J. Franks | Republican | 1872 |
| 14 | James G. Tracy | Republican | 1872 |
| 15 | Edward T. Randle | Republican | 1872 |
| 16 | Matthew Gaines | Republican | 1870 |
| 17 | William A. Saylor | Republican | 1870 |
| 18 | Phidello W. Hall | Republican | 1870 |
| 19 | S. W. Ford | Republican | 1870 |
| 20 | William H. Pyle | Democrat | 1870 |
| 21 | Samuel Evans | | 1870 |
| 22 | E. Thomas Broughton | | 1870 |
| 23 | Andrew J. Ball | Democrat | 1872 |
| 24 | George Preston Finlay | Democrat | 1872 (Prior: 1861–1863) |
| 25 | Robert P. Tendick | Republican | 1871 |
| 26 | Joseph D. Sayers | Democrat | 1872 |
| 27 | Thomas H. Baker | Republican | 1870 |
| 28 | Nathan George Shelley | Democrat | 1872 (Prior: 1861–1863, 1865–1867) |
| 29 | Henry C. King | Democrat | 1872 |
| 30 | Albert Jennings Fountain | Republican | 1870 |

### House of Representatives

* C. L. Abbott
* John Adriance
* Richard Allen, Republican
* Thomas G. Allison
* Em Anderson
* James Monroe Anderson
* James Armstrong
* Julius Berends
* Samuel Bewley
* W.S. Bledsoe
* Augustus J. Booty
* Richard Bordeaux
* A. S. Broaddus
* Bluford Brown
* John Henry Brown
* Edward Chambers
* John Carroll
* Gustave Cook
* John Cunningham
* Overton Fletcher Davenport
* Samuel Day
* Ashley Denton
* Peter Diller
* John N. Doyle
* James Eastland
* W. A. Ellett
* Henry Ford
* Louis Frankee
* C.C. Galloway
* Robert Gaston
* Henry Clay Ghent, M.D. (Seventeenth District, including Bell and Milam Counties)]
* Levi Gillette
* Henry Addington Gilpin
* William Greene
* James Marshall Harrison
* Thomas Hester
* Gustav V. Hoffmann
* Orlando Newton Hollingsworth
* John Ireland
* Thomas M. Joseph
* Josiah Kemble
* Ira Killough
* Marcellus E. Kleberg
* William Lane
* Johann Frederic Leyendecker
* Abner S. Lipscomb
* William Mabry
* Hilary Manning
* John M. McDonald
* F.A. Michael
* J.S. Mills
* Henry Moore
* William Morris
* Hudson Nelson
* Julius Noeggerath
* Jonathan Payne
* Henry Phelps
* Stephen Powers
* Davis M. Prendergast
* Frank Rainey
* Burlington Wesley Rimes
* Sam Robb
* Meshack Roberts
* David Decatur Rosborough
* Alexander Rossey
* Jonathan Russell
* Chauncey B. Sabin
* Charles Partin Salter
* William Sayers
* Erich F. Schmidt
* Preston Scott
* Edward Sharp
* W.A. Shaw
* Eli Shelton
* Daniel Short
* George Washington Smith
* John T. Smith
* Leonidas Jefferson Storey
* Charles Stockbridge
* Marion DeKalb Taylor
* Alfred Sturgis Thurmond
* William Tilson
* Joseph Albert Tivy
* John Files Tom
* William H. Trolinger
* Khleber Miller Van Zandt
* William Veale
* Stephen Venters
* U.G. Mitchell Walker
* James H. Washington
* Arthur Thomas Watts
* William Westfall
* Allen W. Wilder
* Richard Williams
* Clinton McKamy Winkler
* William Daniel Wood
^ Representative Allen was apparently re-elected, but House Democrats alleged voting fraud and seated his Democratic opponent instead.