The 21st Texas Legislature met from January 8 to April 6, 1889, in regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and a portion of the members of the Senate were elected in the 1888 general election.

Sessions 20th Regular session: January 8, 1889 – April 6, 1889

Party summary House of Representatives Affiliation Members Note Democratic Party 90 Republican Party 3 Independent 1 Total 94

Officers Senate Lieutenant Governor: Thomas Benton Wheeler, Democrat President pro tempore: Henry D. McDonald, Democrat, Regular session William H. Burges, Democrat, ad interim

House of Representatives Speaker of the House: Frank P. Alexander, Democrat

Members Senate Members of the Texas Senate for the Twenty-first Texas Legislature:

Leonard Anderson Abercrombie, Democrat William Allen, Unaffiliated William T. Armistead, Democrat Edwin Augustus Atlee, Democrat William H. Burges, Democrat Robert H. Burney, Democrat John Marshall Claiborne, Democrat John Walter Cranford, Democrat William Wallace Davis, Democrat Elbridge Geary Douglass, Democrat Scott Field, Democrat Louis Napoleon Frank, Democrat George Washington Glasscock, Jr., Unaffiliated John H. Harrison, Democrat James Melville Ingram, Democrat James J. Jarvis, Democrat William C. "Cone" Johnson, Democrat R.S. Kimbrough, Democrat Jonathan Lane, Democrat Ernst Gustav Maetze, Democrat Henry D. McDonald, Democrat Robert Morris, Democrat William Henry Pope, Democrat Kennan Benjamin Seale, Democrat Henry Taylor Sims, Democrat John Hall Stephens, Democrat M.H. Townsend, Democrat George W. Tyler, Democrat Samuel Crockett Upshaw, Democrat William H. Woodward, Democrat

House of Representatives Members of the House of Representatives for the Twentieth Texas Legislature: District Representative City County Party Took office 1 Jerome Swinford Orange Orange Democrat January 8, 1889 2 Travis Spraggin Cochran Colita Polk Democrat January 8, 1889 3 Henry R. Ralph Lewis Ferry Jasper Democrat January 8, 1889 4 James Linn Crossland Douglass Nacogdoches Democrat January 8, 1889 (prior: 1879–1881) 5 John P. Childers San Augustine San Augustine Democrat January 8, 1889 6 Robert Teague Milner Henderson Rusk Democrat January 11, 1887 7 J. Ras Jones Pinehill Panola Democrat January 13, 1885 8 George Alexander Newton Mount Selman Cherokee Democrat January 11, 1887 (prior: 1883–1885) 9 Joseph Addison Johnson Bethel Anderson Democrat 1889 10 Joseph Blakey Bishop Athens Henderson Democrat 1889 11 Abram Dallas Martin Pittsburg Camp Democrat 1889 12 Benjamin Green Selman Tyler Smith Democrat 1889 13 William Filmore Murchison Auga Houston Democrat 1889 (prior: 1895–1897) 14 Alexander J. Pope Marshall Harrison Democrat 1887 15 Louis P. Wilson Marshall Harrison Democrat 1889 (prior: 1883–1885) 16 Lucius Adolphus Whatley Atlanta Cass Democrat 1887 17 James Dudley Carwile Atlanta Cass Democrat 1889 Blair McGee New Boston Bowie Democrat 1889 18 Albert S. Bailey Detroit Red River Democrat 1889 19 William Joseph Johnson Mount Pleasant Titus Democrat 1889 20 Mordecai James Hathaway Paris Lamar Democrat 1889 21 William Jordan Hood Savoy Fannin Democrat 1889 22 Thomas Henry Hayes Paris Lamar Democrat 1889 (prior: 1874–1876) 23 George Jefferson Woodruff Racetrack Delta Democrat 1889 24 John McCullough Melson Pickton Hopkins Democrat 1887 25 Frank P. Alexander Greenville Hunt Democrat 1885 26 Thomas Jefferson Towles Canton Van Zandt Democrat 1889 (prior: 1876–1879) 27 John Haywood Tolbert Howe Grayson Democrat 1887 Thomas Jefferson Brown Sherman Grayson Democrat 1889 28 Robert Donaldson Allison McKinney Collin Democrat 1889 (prior: 1876–1879, 1884–1885) 29 Joseph Warren Jagoe Denton Denton Democrat 1889 30 James William Campbell Gainesville Cooke Democrat 1889 31 Jesse Craft Murrell Coesfield Cooke Democrat 1889 32 Alvin Clark Owsley Denton Denton Democrat 1889 33 Jesse Munroe Strong Dallas Dallas Democrat 1887 James Franklin Rowland Richardson Dallas Democrat 1889 34 Isaac Duke Parker Birdville Tarrant Democrat 1889 35 James W. Crayton Fate Rockwall Democrat 1889 36 Andrew Jackson Brown Alvarado Johnson Democrat 1889 37 William Lee Wood Palmer Ellis Democrat 1887 38 James McCullough Wilson Whitney Hill Democrat 1889 39 Samuel Romulus Frost Corsicana Navarro Democrat 1889 (prior: 1879–1881) 40 William McGaughey Granbury Hood Democrat 1885 Jesse Jenkins Meridian Bosque Democrat 1889 41 John Alexander Hudson Marmaduke Wise Democrat 1889 42 Charles Ulrich Connellee Eastland Eastland Democrat 1889 43 Alfred Tolar Abilene Taylor Democrat 1889 44 Rufus Burrow Lankford Bowie Montague Democrat 1889 45 George Bibb Pickett Decatur Wise Democrat 1889 (prior: 1874–1881) 46 Albert Stevenson Weatherford Parker Democrat 1889 47 James Eldrage Dillard Kaufman Kaufman Democrat 1889 48 Alexander Asberry Calvert Robertson Republican 1889 49 William Ambrose Sevier Cobb Rogers Prairie Leon Democrat 1889 50 Elias Mayes Bryan Brazos Republican 1889 (prior: 1879–1881) 51 Henry Lee Lewis Hearne Robertson Democrat 1889 52 William Leonidas Campbell Anderson Grimes Democrat 1889 53 James Wesson Parker Richmond Fort Bend Democrat 1887 54 James A. Breeding Houston Harris Democrat 1889 William Wyatt Dawson Trinity Trinity Democrat 1889 William Perry McComb Montgomery Montgomery Democrat 1889 55 James Wright Cook Mooresville Falls Independent 1889 56 Benjamin Josephus Roop Temple Bell Democrat 1889 57 James Madison McKinney Jones Prairie Milam Democrat 1885 58 James Isom Moody Mexia Limestone Democrat 1889 59 George Walton White Dew Freestone Democrat 1889 60 Jehu Brown Kerens Navarro Democrat 1889 61 Seth Phineas Mills Speegleville McLennan Democrat 1887 (prior: 1879–1881) 62 William Abraham Kincaid Groesbeck Limestone Democrat 1889 63 Crocket McDonald King Leon Junction Coryell Democrat 1889 64 Guy Morrison Bryan Galveston Galveston Democrat 1888 (prior: 1847–1853, 1874–1876, 1879–1881) 65 Walter Gresham Galveston Galveston Democrat 1887 66 Richard Henry Douglass Sorrell II Wharton Wharton Democrat 1889 67 Ibzan William Middlebrook Columbus Colorado Democrat 1889 68 Robert Watson Thompson Nelsonville Austin Democrat 1889 69 James Franklin Overton Hackberry Lavaca Democrat 1889 70 James Foster McGuire Ledbetter Fayette Democrat 1887 Charles B. Welhausen Flatonia Fayette Democrat 1889 71 Myers Felder Chappell Hill Washington Democrat 1889 72 Jacob A. Fields Giddings Lee Democrat 1889 73 James Madison Renick Lexington Lee Democrat 1889 74 James M. Robinson Red Rock Bastrop Democrat 1889 (prior: 1883–1887) 75 Felix Ezell Smith Bluff Springs Travis Democrat 1889 (prior: 1874–1876, 1879–1881, 1883–1887) William Robert Hamby Austin Travis Democrat 1889 76 Norton Moses Strickling Burnet Democrat 1889 (prior: 1876–1879) 77 Martin McFerrin Hancock Goldthwaite Brown Democrat 1889 78 James Henry Faubion Leander Williamson Democrat 1885 79 Simeon Whitted Bowser Bend San Saba Democrat 1889 80 George Bush Stevenson El Paso El Paso Democrat 1889 81 Blucher Erskine Derby Frio Democrat 1889 82 Wilbur McDonald Stockdale Wilson Democrat 1889 83 Thomas W. Kennedy Rio Grande City Starr Democrat 1885 Albert Urbahn Laredo Webb Democrat 1889 84 William A. Williamson Junction City Kimble Democrat 1889 85 John J. Rhodes Millett La Salle Democrat 1889 86 David Crawford Robinson San Antonio Bexar Democrat 1887 William Frederick Miller Converse Bexar Democrat 1889 87 Edward LeGrand Dunlap Victoria Victoria Democrat 1889 Vachel Weldon Cuero DeWitt Democrat 1889 88 Robert Byron Rentfro Brownsville Cameron Republican 1889 89 William Clemens New Braunfels Comal Democrat 1889 (prior: 1879–1881) 90 James William Peebles Leesville Gonzales Democrat 1889 91 Jacob Lewis Ellison Martindale Caldwell Democrat 1887 George McGehee San Marcos Hays Democrat 1887 92 William Hamblen Houston Harris Democrat 1889 93 Richard Butt Levy Longview Gregg Democrat 1889 94 Joseph Wesley Humphrey Point Rains Democrat 1889 (prior: 1885–1887)

These are multimember or flotorial districts.

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