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Party affiliation - 15th Legislature

  Totals based on membership as of first day of the regular session, April 18, 1876

House of Representatives

Democrats in the House of Representatives
[81 of 88 = 92%]

Republicans in the House of Representatives
[7 of 88 = 8%]

Senate

Democrats in the Senate
[26 of 30 = 87%]

Republicans in the Senate
[3 of 30 = 10%]

Other parties in the Senate
[1 of 30 = 3%]

Districts represented by more than one person

Chamber & District Name Party Dates of service Notes
H District 11 Hiram Mack Burrows Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 11 Thomas Jefferson Campbell Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 11 Thomas Robert Conley Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 22 John Summerfield Griffith Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 22 Thomas Jefferson Towles Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 27 George U. Mead Republican 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 27 Philip Edward Peers Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 33 Decimus et Ultimus Barziza Democrat 04/18/1876 - 08/02/1876  
H District 33 Erich F. Schmidt Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 35 Moritz Kopperl Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 35 Michael A.D. Quin Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 37 William H. Holland Republican 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 37 Henry S. Sneed Republican 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 39 Allen W. Wilder Republican 04/18/1876 - 05/13/1876  
H District 39 Hermann R. Von Bieberstein Democrat 05/13/1876 - 08/02/1876   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 41 James Boyd Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 41 Abraham Conn Isaacs Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 41 William Lang Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 46 John Hughes Cochran Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 46 James Tickell Downs Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 48 James Samuel Pattie Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 48 Jack May Martin Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 58 Emile Alexander Perrenot Democrat 04/18/1876 - 08/02/1876  
H District 58 Leroy F. Roberts Democrat 04/18/1876 - 08/02/1876  
H District 59 Milton Virgil Kinnison Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 59 Ibzan William Middlebrook Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 64 James Van Zandt Hutchins Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 64 William Monroe Rust Democrat 04/18/1876 - 01/14/1879  
H District 76 Augustin Salinas Unaffiliated Elected but never sworn   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 76 Albert Lockwood McLane Democrat 06/09/1876 - 08/04/1876   Not included in the statistics above.

Members not listed above

Chamber & District Name Party Dates of service Notes
H District 23 Aurelius Franklin Cone Democrat 04/19/1876 - 01/14/1879   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 53 Nicholas Henry Darnell Democrat 04/19/1876 - 01/14/1879   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 32 Louis Buckner Hightower Democrat 04/19/1876 - 01/14/1879   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 77 William Long Rogers Democrat 04/19/1876 - 12/17/1877   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 7 James Postell Douglas Democrat 04/24/1876 - 01/14/1879   Not included in the statistics above.

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