15th Texas Legislature

• 15th Regular session: April 18 – August 21, 1876 ==Officers==

Senate ; Lieutenant Governor : Richard Bennett Hubbard, Jr., Democrat ; President pro tempore : Wells Thompson, Democrat House of Representatives ; Speaker of the House : Thomas Reuben Bonner, Democrat ==Members==

Members of the Fifteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, April 18, 1876: Senate House of Representatives • Robert D. Allison • Benjamin M. Baker • Decimus et Ultimus Barziza • Thomas Reuben Bonner • John Hughes Cochran • Nicholas Henry Darnell • Thomas Mason Dennis • Caleb Jackson Garrison • John Summerfield Griffith • William H. Holland • Alexander Horton • William W. Lang • Norton Moses • George Pickett • Meshack Roberts • William Long Rogers • Henry Sneed • Elias Charles Stuart • Thomas Towles • John Quitman Wall • Allen W. Wilder • Charles Louis Wurzbach • William Hubbel Price Logan Henderson McCorkle, Sulphur Springs Representative Wilder won a closely contested election, but House Democrats contended that some votes were illegal and seated his Democratic opponent instead. ==Membership changes==

• Sworn in at the beginning of the Sixteenth Texas Legislature. ==External links==