13th Texas Legislature

• 13th Regular session: January 14–June 4, 1873 ==Officers==

Senate ; Lieutenant Governor: Vacant ; President pro tempore (Lieutenant Governor ex officio) : Edward Bradford Pickett, Democrat House of Representatives ; Speaker of the House : M. D. K. Taylor, Democrat ==Members==

Members of the Thirteenth Texas Legislature at the beginning of the Regular Session, January 14, 1873: Senate House of Representatives • C. L. Abbott • John Adriance • Richard Allen • Thomas G. Allison • Em Anderson • James Monroe Anderson • James Armstrong • Julius Berends • Samuel Bewley • W.S. Bledsoe • Augustus J. Booty • Richard Bordeaux • A. S. Broaddus • Bluford Brown • John Henry Brown • Edward Chambers • John Carroll • Gustave Cook • John Cunningham • Overton Fletcher Davenport • Samuel Day • Ashley Denton • Peter Diller • John N. Doyle • James Eastland • W. A. Ellett • Henry Harrison Ford • Louis Frankee • C.C. Galloway • Robert Gaston • Henry Clay Ghent (Seventeenth District, including Bell and Milam Counties) • Levi Gillette • Henry Addington Gilpin • William Greene • James Marshall Harrison • Thomas Hester • Gustav V. Hoffmann • Orlando Newton Hollingsworth • John Ireland • Thomas M. Joseph • Josiah Kemble • Ira Killough • Marcellus Kleberg • William Lane • Johann Frederic Leyendecker • Abner Smith Lipscomb • William Mabry • Hilary Manning • John M. McDonald • F.A. Michael • J. S. Mills • Henry Moore • William Morris • Hudson Nelson • Julius Noeggerath • Jonathan Payne • Henry Phelps • Stephen Powers • Davis M. Prendergast • Frank Rainey • Burlington Wesley Rimes • Sam Robb • Shack Roberts • David Decatur Rosborough • Alexander Rossey • Jonathan Russell • Chauncey Brewer Sabin • Charles Partin Salter • William Sayers • Erich F. Schmidt • Preston Scott • Edward Sharp • W.A. Shaw • Eli Shelton • Daniel Short • George Washington Smith • John T. Smith • Leonidas Jefferson Storey • Charles Stockbridge • M. D. K. Taylor • Alfred Sturgis Thurmond • William Tilson • Joseph Albert Tivy • John Files Tom • William H. Trolinger • K. M. Van Zandt • William Veale • Stephen Venters • U.G. Mitchell Walker • James H. Washington • Arthur Thomas Watts • William Westfall • Allen W. Wilder • Richard Williams • Clinton McKamy Winkler • William Daniel Wood Representative Allen was apparently re-elected, but House Democrats alleged voting fraud and seated his Democratic opponent instead. ==Membership Changes==