Party affiliation - 17th Legislature

  Totals based on membership as of first day of the regular session, January 11, 1881

House of Representatives

Democrats in the House of Representatives [80 of 92 = 87%]

Henry S. Arnold
J.P. Ayers
Benjamin Marbry Baker
Bryan Thomas Barry
Allen Blacker
Horatio Gates Bruce
Lucien N. Bruce
Joseph H. Burks, Jr.
Fred Carleton
John Cauthron
William John Caven
Stephen Chenault
James Quilbert Chenoweth
John W. Daniel
Wilson Thompson Davidson
Washington Lafayette Denman
Francis Marion Dougherty
William Levi Douglass
James Jonathan Faulk
George Preston Finlay
George Washington Lafayette Fly
Lafayette Lumpkin Foster
Benjamin Franklin Frymier
James Caldwell Gaither
Charles Reese Gibson
George Henry Gould
George W. Granbury
James Davis Grant
James E. Gray
Augustin Haidusek
Harry Haynes
James Ewing Hill
Joseph Chappell Hutcheson
William Milling Johnston
William Addison Kendall
John Powell Key
Joseph Colston Kindred
Wilburn Hill King
Henry Jacob Labatt
Edward Daniel Linn
Henry Clay Mack
Donald Phelps Marr
Avery Lenoir Matlock
James Edward Matthews
John Evans McComb
Felix Johnson McCord
William Washington Merritt
Eldridge Chappell Mobley
Albert W.H. Moursund
Thomas Nash
Absalom Carter Oliver
Buckley Burton Paddock
Benjamin Parker
James W. Patteson
John Atlas Peacock
Emile Alexander Perrenot
Benjamin Allen Philpott
James T. Polley
Michael Jackson Ragsdale
George Robertson Reeves
Elihu Jackson Riggs
Isaac Newton Roach
William Thomas Scott
Thomas G. Smith
William T. Smith
Solon Stewart
James Gray Storey
Cornelius Kinchelo Stribling
Martin Stringfellow
Marshall Tankersley
Benjamin Dudley Tarlton
Frank Templeton
William Alexander Thompson
George Thomas Todd
John Henry Traylor
James W. Truitt
William Felton Upton
James Stanton Woods
Richard Wooldridge
Charles Louis Wurzbach

Republicans in the House of Representatives [7 of 92 = 8%]

Theophilus G. Anderson
Thomas Beck
Robert J. Evans
Doc C. Lewis
Benjamin Rush Plumly
Henry Joseph Richarz
Arthur C. Tompkins

Other parties in the House of Representatives [5 of 92 = 5%]

Augustus Romulus Bennick
Robert A. Kerr
William Nelson Linton
T.G.A. Willis
Santos Benavides

Senate

Democrats in the Senate [29 of 30 = 97%]

John Creighton Buchanan
John T. Buchanan
William Henry Burges
Samuel Bronson Cooper, Sr.
Jewett Harbert Davenport
John Martin Duncan
John Young Gooch
Andrew Jackson Harris
John Nathaniel Henderson
Richard Levesly Hightower
Augustus Weyman Houston
William Dixon Lair
Ellsberry Richard Lane
Henry William Lightfoot
Francis Marion Martin
Jack May Martin
Archibald Woods Moore
Samuel Collier Patton
Stephen Powers
Anson Rainey
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
William Russell Shannon
Charles Stewart
James B. Stubbs
William Jesse Swain
Alexander Watkins Terrell
William Harrison Tilson
William Weatherred
Richard M. Wynne

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

William Kercheval Homan

Districts represented by more than one person
H District 11 John Atlas Peacock Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 11 Absalom Carter Oliver Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 11 George Thomas Todd Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 14 Wilburn Hill King Democrat 01/11/1881 - 07/22/1881  
H District 14 Seth Whitaker Stewart Democrat 04/06/1882 - 01/09/1883   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 22 John Cauthron Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 22 James Stanton Woods Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 27 Eldridge Chappell Mobley Democrat 01/11/1881 - 08/03/1881  
H District 27 James Davis Grant Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 27 Harriel G. 'Hal' Geiger Greenback 04/06/1882 - 01/09/1883   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 33 Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 33 Marshall Tankersley Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 35 George Preston Finlay Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 35 Henry Jacob Labatt Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 37 Doc C. Lewis Republican 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 37 Arthur C. Tompkins Republican 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 41 Wilson Thompson Davidson Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 41 James Caldwell Gaither Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 41 William Wilson Oxsheer Democrat 01/12/1881 - 01/09/1883   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 46 Thomas Nash Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 46 John W. Daniel Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 48 James Edward Matthews Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 48 George Robertson Reeves Democrat 01/11/1881 - 09/05/1882  
H District 55 Horatio Gates Bruce Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/11/1882  
H District 55 Owen Brown Democrat 04/06/1882 - 01/09/1883   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 58 Edward Daniel Linn Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 58 Emile Alexander Perrenot Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 59 Joseph Colston Kindred Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 59 Elihu Jackson Riggs Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 64 James Gray Storey Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 64 Martin Stringfellow Democrat 01/11/1881 - 01/09/1883  
H District 78 Donald Phelps Marr Democrat 01/11/1881 - 06/23/1881  
H District 78 Thomas A. Rodriguez Democrat 04/06/1882 - 01/09/1883   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 11 Jack May Martin Democrat 01/11/1881 - 03/08/1882  
S District 11 William Owen Davis Democrat 04/06/1882 - 01/09/1883   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 16 John T. Buchanan Democrat 02/17/1880 - 01/29/1882  
S District 16 James Green McDonald, Sr. Democrat 04/06/1882 - 01/09/1883   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 28 Ellsberry Richard Lane Democrat 01/14/1879 - 02/01/1882  
S District 28 Lucius Henry Browne Democrat 04/06/1882 - 01/09/1883   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 29 Stephen Powers Democrat 01/11/1881 - 02/05/1882  
S District 29 Charles Addison McLane Democrat 04/06/1882 - 01/09/1883   Not included in the statistics above.

Members not listed above
S District 17 Walter Moses Burton Republican 01/12/1881 - 01/09/1883   Not included in the statistics above.