predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place jr/sr party article_title birth_date term_start state term_end name
john h. reagan richard coke roger q. mills joseph w. bailey 12 june 1932 tyler , texas dallas , texas united states senator democratic horace chilton
 29 december 1853 june 10 , 1891 march 4 , 1895 texas march 22 , 1892 march 4 , 1901 horace chilton
horace chilton

horace chilton -lrb- december 29 , 1853 -- june 12 , 1932 -rrb- was a printer , lawyer , and democratic united states senator from texas .
chilton - a grandson of thomas chilton - was born near tyler , texas , and by age 18 was publishing the tri-weekly tyler `` sun '' newspaper .
at 19 he was admitted to the bar and served as assistant attorney general of texas between 1881 and 1883 and as a delegate to the democratic national conventions of 1888 and 1896 .
appointed to the senate upon john h. reagan 's resignation in 1891 , chilton was the first native texan to serve in the united states congress .
although he was defeated in the 1892 election for the seat , chilton was elected to the senate in 1894 .
chilton decided not to run for reelection in 1901 , returning to practice law in tyler and later beaumont , texas , where he worked with spindletop oilfield operations .
in 1906 he moved to dallas , texas , where he lived until his death .
