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8th Texas Legislature

The 8th Texas Legislature met from November 7, 1859 to April 9, 1861 in its regular session, a first called session, and an adjourned session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1859.

Sessions

8th Regular session: November 7, 1859 – February 13, 1860
8th First called session: January 21–February 9, 1861
8th Adjourned session: March 18–April 9, 1861

Officers

Senate

; Lieutenant Governor: Edward Clark, Democrat ; President pro tempore: Jesse Grimes, Democrat, Regular session

House of Representatives

; Speaker of the House : M. D. K. Taylor, Democrat

Members

Members of the Eighth Texas Legislature at the beginning of the regular session, November 7, 1859:

Senate

District	Senator	Party
James W. Sims	Democrat	1859
Lewis G. Harmon	Democrat	1859
Martin D. Hart	Democrat	1859
James W. Throckmorton	Democrat	1857
Albert G. Walker	Democrat	1857 (First time: 1849–1851)
Emory Rains	Democrat	1859
John Green Chambers	Democrat	1859
Louis T. Wigfall	Democrat	1857
Jesse H. Parsons	Democrat	1859
Elisha Everett Lott	Democrat	1853
Robert Henry Guinn	Democrat	1853
Alexis T. Rainey	Democrat	1859
John N. Fall	Democrat	1857
John R. Dickinson	Democrat	1859
Henry C. Wallace	Democrat	1859
Enoch S. Pitts	Democrat	1859
Mark M. Potter	Democrat	1851
Abram Morris Gentry	Democrat	1859
Jesse Grimes	Democrat	1855 (First time: 1846–1853)
Chauncey Berkeley Shepard	Democrat	1857
David M. Whaley	Democrat	1858
Francis Marion Martin	Democrat	1859
George Bernard Erath	Democrat	1857
George E. Quinan	Democrat	1857
Eggleston D. Townes	Democrat	1859
Fletcher S. Stockdale	Democrat	1857
Thomas Hinds Duggan	Democrat	1859 (First time: 1851–1853)
Edwin B. Scarborough	Democrat	1853
Forbes Britton	Democrat	1857
Isaiah Addison Paschal	Democrat	1857 (First time: 1853–1855)
Gustav Schleicher	Democrat	1859
Claiborne C. Herbert	Democrat	1857
Archibald C. Hyde	Democrat	1857

House of Representatives

District	Representative	Party	Took office
1	Solomon H. Pirkey	Unknown	November 12, 1859

Basilio Benavides
Anthony Martin Branch
Kindallis Bryan
Constantine W. Buckley
William Clark
David B. Culberson
Nicholas Henry Darnell
John Wilson Davis, Jr.
Isaac N. Dennis
David Catchings Dickson
Edward Dougherty
Foscue
James Carlton Francis
Benjamin Cromwell Franklin
De Witt Clinton Fort
Lindsay Hagler, San Patricio County
James Marshall Harrison
John L. Haynes
J. W. Henderson
Alfred Marmaduke Hobby
Richard Bennett Hubbard, Jr.
Henry Lawrence Kinney
Francis J. Lynch
John Haywood Manley
Samuel Maverick
John N. McClarty
George McKnight
Roger Q. Mills
William Wright Morris
Titus H. Mundine
José Ángel Navarro
Allison Nelson
Anthony Banning Norton
Benjamin F. Parker
Samuel Redgate
Joel Walter Robison
Shelton
Daniel McDowell Short
John Dennis Stell
M. D. K. Taylor
Robert H. Taylor
Robert J. Townes
Jacob Waelder
Charles A. Warfield
George Washington Whitmore
William Amos Wortham
Friedrich Wilhelm von Wrede, Jr.

Membership changes

Senate

District	Outgoing
Senator	Reason for Vacancy	Successor	Date of Successor's Installation	District 3	District 8	District 9	District 12	District 14	District 15	District 15	District 25	District 29	District 30
Martin D. Hart	Hart resigned February 26, 1861.	Turner L. Greene	Unknown
Louis T. Wigfall	Wigfall announced his resignation on December 7, 1859.	E. A. Blanch	January 14, 1860
Jesse H. Parsons	Parsons resigned after the adjourned session.	None
Alexis T. Rainey	Rainey resigned after the regular session.	Steward Alexander Miller	January 21, 1861
John R. Dickinson	Dickinson resigned after the regular session.	Henry P. C. Dulany	January 26, 1861
Henry C. Wallace	Wallace resigned January 4, 1861.	Franklin Barlow Sexton	None
Franklin Barlow Sexton	Sexton did not appear.	None
Eggleston D. Townes	Townes resigned March 13, 1861.	Nathan George Shelley	November 4, 1861
Forbes Britton	Britton died February 14, 1861.	Benjamin Franklin Neal	March 19, 1861
Isaiah Addison Paschal	Paschal resigned March 29, 1861.	Unknown	Unknown

District 15: Sexton did not return from Confederate States Army service in time to meet with the legislature.
District 25: Shelley elected in special election held March 25, 1861 and sworn in with the Ninth Texas Legislature.

House of Representatives

District	Outgoing
Representative	Reason for Vacancy	Successor	Date of Successor's Installation	District 22	District 65
John N. McClarty	McClarty resigned after the regular session.	William Wright Morris	January 22, 1861
Henry Lawrence Kinney	Kinney was opposed to secession and resigned February 9, 1861.	Alfred Marmaduke Hobby	March 19, 1861

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