Party affiliation - 16th Legislature
Totals based on membership as of first day of the regular session, January 14, 1879
House of Representatives
Democrats in the House of Representatives
			[73 of 93 = 78%]
			- Benjamin Marbry Baker
 - William Bell
 - Santos Benavides
 - Bluford Washington Brown
 - James Petty Brown
 - Guy Morrison Bryan
 - Thomas Mabry Cain
 - William Gadston Callaway
 - James W. Carlton
 - William Clemens
 - John Hughes Cochran
 - Nehemiah C. Cochran
 - Frederick Bird Smith Cocke, Sr.
 - William Sidney Coleman
 - Norman George Collins
 - James Linn Crossland
 - Martin S. Crow
 - John W. Daniel
 - Isaac N. Dennis
 - Francis Marion Dougherty
 - Astyanax M. Douglass
 - James Newton English
 - John Patton Estes
 - George Preston Finlay
 - Robert Turner Flewellen
 - Thomas Washington Ford
 - Robert Coleman Foster
 - Samuel Romulus Frost
 - Joseph Talbot Fry
 - James Caldwell Gaither
 - Caleb Jackson Garrison
 - William Randall Gause
 - Charles Reese Gibson
 - Greene Herbert Goodson
 - James Brock Henderson
 - W.B. Henderson
 - William Taylor Hill
 - James Hurst
 - Robert Malone Jackson
 - Franklin Lewis Johnston
 - William Milling Johnston
 - William Clayton Jones
 - Wilburn Hill King
 - William Calhoun Larkin
 - Edward Daniel Linn
 - Moritz Maedgen
 - Duncan McCall
 - John Evans McComb
 - William Washington Merritt
 - Seth Phineas Mills
 - James Monroe Moore
 - William Wilson Oxsheer
 - Benjamin Allen Philpott
 - George Bibb Pickett
 - James T. Polley
 - Joseph Benjamin Polley
 - Shadrack L. Proctor
 - George Robertson Reeves
 - James Asbury Rumsey
 - Richard Campbell Saunders
 - William Thomas Scott
 - William Jefferson Singletary
 - Ashbel Smith
 - Felix Ezell Smith
 - William T. Smith
 - Seth Whitaker Stewart
 - William Alexander Stewart
 - John Wesley Stiles
 - Marion DeKalb Taylor
 - Woodlief Thomas
 - William Felton Upton
 - Stephen Augustus Venters
 - Charles Louis Wurzbach
 
Republicans in the House of Representatives
		  [8 of 93 = 9%]
					
			Other parties in the House of Representatives
			[12 of 93 = 13%]
					
			Senate
Democrats in the Senate
				[25 of 31 = 81%]
				- William Blassingame
 - William Morton Brown
 - John Creighton Buchanan
 - Jewett Harbert Davenport
 - Peyton Forbes Edwards
 - John Salmon Ford
 - John Young Gooch
 - Charles Dougherty Grace
 - Robert Smythe Guy
 - Edwin E. Hobby
 - Augustus Weyman Houston
 - William Dixon Lair
 - Ellsberry Richard Lane
 - William Hamilton Ledbetter
 - Francis Marion Martin
 - Thomas Jefferson McCulloch
 - John W. Moore
 - James W. Motley
 - Samuel Collier Patton
 - William Russell Shannon
 - Charles Stewart
 - Leonidas Jefferson Storey
 - William Jesse Swain
 - Alexander Watkins Terrell
 - William Harrison Tilson
 
Republicans in the Senate
					[3 of 31 = 10%]
					
			
				Other parties in the Senate
					[3 of 31 = 10%]
					
						
    
	
Districts represented by more than one person
| Chamber & District | Name | Party | Dates of service | Notes | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H District 11 | William Gadston Callaway | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 11 | Shadrack L. Proctor | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 11 | Marion DeKalb Taylor | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 22 | W.B. Henderson | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 22 | Thomas Mabry Cain | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 27 | Harriel G. 'Hal' Geiger | Republican | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 27 | James Davis Grant | Unaffiliated | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 33 | Robert Turner Flewellen | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 33 | Ashbel Smith | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 35 | Guy Morrison Bryan | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 35 | George Preston Finlay | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 37 | Isaac N. Dennis | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 02/19/1879 | |
| H District 37 | Benjamin Franklin Williams | Republican | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 37 | Jacob Esan Freeman | Republican | 02/19/1879 - 01/11/1881 | Not included in the statistics above. | 
| H District 41 | James Caldwell Gaither | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 41 | Moritz Maedgen | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 41 | William Wilson Oxsheer | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 46 | John Hughes Cochran | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 46 | John W. Daniel | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 48 | Robert Coleman Foster | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 48 | James Leonard | Greenback | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 58 | Edward Daniel Linn | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 58 | Woodlief Thomas | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 59 | John Warner Johnson | Unaffiliated | 01/14/1879 - 02/17/1880 | |
| H District 59 | Richard Campbell Saunders | Democrat | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 59 | Alex F. Kinneson | Republican | 02/17/1880 - 01/11/1881 | Not included in the statistics above. | 
| H District 64 | Stokely Mize Holmes | Unaffiliated | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 64 | William Franklin Delany | Greenback | 01/14/1879 - 01/11/1881 | |
| H District 75 | James Price Hague | Republican | 01/14/1879 - 01/24/1879 | |
| H District 75 | Isaac Mullins | Democrat | 01/24/1879 - 01/11/1881 | Not included in the statistics above. | 
| S District 16 | James Russell Burnett | Unaffiliated | 01/14/1879 - 10/09/1879 | |
| S District 16 | John T. Buchanan | Democrat | 02/17/1880 - 01/29/1882 | Not included in the statistics above. | 
| S District 19 | Andrew Phelps McCormick | Republican | 04/18/1876 - 04/12/1879 | |
| S District 19 | Robert Gould Street | Democrat | 06/10/1879 - 01/11/1881 | Not included in the statistics above. | 
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