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The Seventeenth Texas Legislature met from 11 January 1881 to 5 May 1882 in its regular session and one called session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1880 General Election.
[edit] Sessions
[edit] Party summary
[edit] Officers
[edit] Senate
- Lieutenant Governor
- Leonidas Jefferson Storey, Democrat
- President pro tempore
- Edwin Hobby, Democrat, Regular session
- Francis Marion Martin, Democrat, ad interim, First called session
[edit] House of Representatives
- Speaker of the House
- George Robertson Reeves, Democrat
[edit] Members
Members of the Seventeenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, 11 January 1881:
[edit] Senate
[edit] House of Representatives
- Benjamin M. Baker
- Thomas Beck
- William John Caven
- R. J. Evans
- George Finlay
- George Washington Lafayette Fly
- Lafayette Lumpkin Foster
- Charles Reese Gibson
- Andrew Jackson Harris
- William Kercheval Homan
- Joseph Chappell Hutcheson
- Robert A. Kerr
- Absolom C. Oliver
- Thomas A. Rodríguez
- George Robertson Reeves
- Benjamin Dudley Tarlton
- George T. Todd
- Arthur Tompkins
- John Henry Traylor
- James W. Truitt
- William Wallace Weatherred
- Charles Louis Wurzbach
[edit] Membership Changes
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