# 19th Texas Legislature

The 19th 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

| 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
* Milton Stanhope Austin
* John Bailey
* Joseph Weir Barnett
* John Andrew Virgil Barton
* William Beard
* Charles C. Bell
* Oscar B. Bergstrom
* William Preston Bishop
* Kenneth Royal Blackshear
* James P. Blount
* Stephen William Blount
* Robert Joseph Brailsford
* James Browning
* Angero Grey Camp
* Benjamin M. Camp
* Daniel Milton Carleton
* William John Caven
* William Richard Cavitt
* Gideon Christian
* William D. Cochran (politician)
* James Henry Combs
* Thomas Chappel Cook
* Zachariah Ellis Coombs
* James Robb Cowles
* George Russell Craft
* Martin McNulty Crane
* Nehemiah Andrew Cravens
* Daniel Chambers Darroch
* Benjamin F. Davis
* George Washington Donalson
* James Henry Faubion
* Lorenzo Clarke Fisher
* Lafayette Lumpkin Foster
* Robert Coleman Foster
* Frank Bailey Greenwood
* Adolph Carl Ludwig Groos
* Addison Yancey Gunter
* Robert T. Hailey
* William Oscar Hamilton
* William Powell Hancock
* Harry Haynes
* David Thomas Hearne
* Travis Clark Henderson
* Joseph Wesley Humphrey
* George Francis Ingraham
* James Marion Jolley
* Edward A. Jones
* J. Ras Jones
* William Henry Jones
* Thomas W. Kennedy
* John Powell Key
* Robert Snead Kimbrough
* John Rhodes King
* Francis William Latham
* Thomas Hamilton Lenox
* Edward Daniel Linn
* William Henry Lockett
* Jesse P. Loving
* Marcellus French Lowe
* William McGaughey
* Andrew Todd McKinney
* John Guilford McReynolds
* William Thomas Meriwether
* Edward Taylor Moore
* Robert J. Moore
* Philander Burr Muse
* William Butler Page
* George Cassety Pendleton
* William Smartt Pendleton
* Samuel Porter Pounders
* Alexis Theodore Rainey
* John A. Ramsdell
* James M. Robinson
* James R. Robinson
* John W. Rountree
* Whitfield Scott
* Frank W. Simmons
* Felix Ezell Smith
* Robert E. Steele
* Charles Frederick Stevens
* James H. Stewart
* Marshall Tankersley
* Benjamin Dudley Tarlton
* Horatio Lorenzo Tate
* Alsey Marcellus Taylor
* William Lafayette Thompson
* William Harrison Tipton
* George Isbell Turnley
* Ammon Underwood
* William Felton Upton
* Armistead Elisha Watson
* Joseph T. Webb
* Missouri Henneger Whaley
* James Knox White
* Benjamin Franklin Williams
* Richard Henry Wood
* James Stanton Woods
* Elijah Fisk Yeager

## 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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