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.
- 20th Regular session: January 8, 1889 – April 6, 1889
House of Representatives
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House of Representatives
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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
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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[1]
|
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[2]
|
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[3]
|
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[4]
|
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[5]
|
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[6]
|
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[7]
|
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[8]
|
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[9]
|
David Crawford Robinson
|
San Antonio
|
Bexar
|
Democrat
|
1887
|
| William Frederick Miller
|
Converse
|
Bexar
|
Democrat
|
1889
|
| 87[10]
|
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[11]
|
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.
