Contacting your legislators
Finding your legislators
Who Represents Me?
This system from the Texas Legislature Online provides information about current districts and members of the Texas Senate, Texas House of Representatives, the Texas delegation
to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, and the State Board of Education (SBOE).
You can search by street address, ZIP code, county, and/or city.
Contacting your legislators
Phone numbers, room numbers, district office addresses, and email forms are available from the Texas Senators and House Members web sites and the Legislative Reference Library's Chief Elected Officials of Texas list.
Writing to your legislators
You may write to your legislators at the following addresses:
The Honorable (insert name of Senator)
Texas Senate
P.O. Box 12068
Austin, Texas 78711-2068
The Honorable (insert name of Representative)
Texas House of Representatives
P.O. Box 2910
Austin, Texas 78768-2910
Forms of address
- Envelope and inside address
- The Honorable Jane Doe
United States Senator-elect - Salutation
- Dear Mr./Ms. Doe:
- Introduction, one person to another
- Mr./Ms. Doe
- Conversation, subsequently
- Mr./Ms. Doe
- Envelope and inside address
- The Honorable Jane Doe
United States House of Representatives - Salutation
- Dear Representative Doe:3
- Introduction, one person to another
- Representative Doe
- Conversation, subsequently
- Representative
- Envelope and inside address
- The Honorable John Doe
United States Representative-elect - Salutation
- Dear Mr./Ms. Doe:
- Introduction, one person to another
- Mr./Ms. Doe
- Conversation, subsequently
- Mr./Ms. Doe
- Envelope and inside address
- The Honorable John Doe
- Salutation
- Dear Senator Doe: / Representative Doe:3
- Introduction, one person to another
- Senator/Representative Doe
- Conversation, subsequently
- Senator/Representative
- Envelope and inside address
- The Honorable Jane Doe
Governor of Texas - Salutation
- Dear Governor Doe:
- Introduction, one person to another
- Governor Doe
- Conversation, subsequently
- Governor
- Envelope and inside address
- The Honorable John Doe
Lieutenant Governor of Texas - Salutation
- Dear Lieutenant Governor Doe:
- Introduction, one person to another
- Lieutenant Governor Doe
- Conversation, subsequently
- Lieutenant Governor / Governor (preferred in Texas)
- Envelope and inside address
- The Honorable Jane Doe
Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives - Salutation
- Dear Mr./Madam Speaker:
- Introduction, one person to another
- Mr./Madam Speaker
- Conversation, subsequently
- Mr./Madam Speaker
- Envelope and inside address
- The Honorable John Doe
Texas Senate - Salutation
- Dear Senator Doe:
- Introduction, one person to another
- Senator Doe
- Conversation, subsequently
- Senator
- Envelope and inside address
- The Honorable Jane Doe
Senator-elect
Texas Senate - Salutation
- Dear Mr./Ms. Doe:
- Introduction, one person to another
- Mr./Ms. Doe
- Conversation, subsequently
- Mr./Ms. Doe
- Envelope and inside address
- The Honorable John Doe
Texas House of Representatives - Salutation
- Dear Representative Doe:
- Introduction, one person to another
- Representative Doe
- Conversation, subsequently
- Representative
- Envelope and inside address
- The Honorable Jane Doe
Representative-elect
Texas House of Representatives - Salutation
- Dear Mr./Ms. Doe:
- Introduction, one person to another
- Mr./Ms. Doe
- Conversation, subsequently
- Mr./Ms. Doe
- Envelope and inside address
- The Honorable John Doe
(local address 4)
- Salutation
- Dear Senator Doe: / Representative Doe:
- Introduction, one person to another
- Senator/Representative Doe
- Conversation, subsequently
- Senator/Representative
Footnotes:
1. If writing to a legislator as President Pro Tempore of the Senate or as a committee or subcommittee Chair, include that title in your envelope and salutation greeting.
2.
Honor & Respect recommends
complimentary close of "Sincerely
yours" or "Sincerely."
3. Per Honor & Respect, "Representative" and "Senator" are not traditional honorifics for members of the U.S. or Texas House of Representatives or the Texas Senate, but the author notes that many legislators prefer these titles over "Mr./Ms. (Name)." Common use in the Texas legislative community calls for "Representative [name]" and "Senator [name]."
4. The Legislative Reference
Library does not keep current contact information on file for former members
of the Legislature. However, several resources are available at the LRL that
provide dates of service and biographical information.
Sources consulted:
- Hickey, Robert. Honor & Respect: The Official Guide to Names, Titles, and Forms of Address. Columbia, S.C.: The Protocol School of Washington, 2008.
- McCaffree, Mary Jane, Pauline Innis, and Richard M. Sand, Esquire. Protocol: The Complete Handbook of Diplomatic, Official and Social Usage. 25th anniversary ed. Dallas: Durban House Publishing Company, Inc., 2002.
- Texas House of Representatives
- Texas Senate
- Texas State Directory, Austin, TX: Texas State Directory Press, 2017.