The 4th Texas Legislature met from November 3, 1851 to February 7, 1853 in its regular session and one called session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1850.
Sessions 4th Regular session: November 3, 1851 – February 16, 1852 4th First called session: January 10–February 7, 1853
Officers Senate Lieutenant Governor James Wilson Henderson, Democrat President pro tempore Edward Burleson, Democrat, Regular session Jesse Grimes, Democrat, Regular session, First called session
Senator Burleson died during the regular session on December 26, 1851.
House of Representatives Speaker of the House David Catchings Dickson, Democrat
Add to Representatives: Issac B. McFarland, Democrat, elected in 1851 from La Grange, Fayette County
Sources: several obituaries, family history, list of One Hundredth Anniversary of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas
Members Senate Members of the Texas Senate for the Fourth Texas Legislature: District Senator Party Took office 1 Joseph H. Burks Democrat 1851 2 William M. "Buckskin" Williams Democrat 1851 (First time:1846–1849) 3 Sam Bogart Democrat 1851 4 Hart Hardin Democrat 1849 5 M. D. K. Taylor Democrat 1851 6 George Washington Hill Democrat 1851 7 Isaac Parker Democrat 1847 8 Stephen Reaves Democrat 1851 9 William Thomas Scott Democrat 1851 (First time:1846–1847) 10 Z. Williams Eddy Democrat 1851 11 Adolphus Sterne Democrat 1851 12 James A. Truitt Democrat 1851 13 James Davis Democrat 1851 14 James H. Armstrong Democrat 1851 15 Jesse Grimes Democrat 1846 16 William S. Day Democrat 1851 17 Peter W. Gray Democrat 1851 18 Franklin H. Merriman Democrat 1851 19 James Charles Wilson Democrat 1851 20 John Winfield Scott Dancy Democrat 1851 (First time:1847–1849) 21 Edward Burleson Democrat 1846 22 Baron Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach Democrat 1851 23 Thomas Hinds Duggan Democrat 1851 24 Israel B. Bigelow Democrat 1851 25 Henry Lawrence Kinney Democrat 1846 26 Rufus Doane Democrat 1851
House of Representatives Members of the House of Representatives for the Fourth Texas Legislature:
District Representative First day of term Last day of term Counties represented 1 Napoleon Bonaparte Charlton November 3, 1851 November 7, 1853 Jefferson, Tyler 2 Andrew Jackson Hamilton November 3, 1851 November 7, 1853 Travis 3 William Fields November 3, 1851 November 7, 1853 Liberty, Polk
Hamilton P. Bee Guy Morrison Bryan David Catchings Dickson Randolph C. Doom Memucan Hunt, Jr. William G. W. Jowers William H. Johnson Evans Mabry Robert Simpson Neighbors John Patrick Robert Peebles Emory Rains James Rowe Hardin Richard Runnels Charles Bellinger Tate Stewart Benjamin E. Tarver Robert H. Taylor Andrew Jackson Titus Amasa Turner
Membership Changes Senate
District OutgoingSenator Reason for Vacancy Successor Date of Successor's Installation District 11 Adolphus Sterne Senator Sterne died March 27, 1852. Steward Alexander Miller January 20, 1852 District 18 Franklin H. Merriman Senator Merriman resigned August 31, 1852. Mark M. Potter January 20, 1852 District 21 Edward Burleson Senator Burleson died December 26, 1851. John Salmon "Rip" Ford January 20, 1852
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