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Party affiliation - 31st Legislature

  Totals based on membership as of first day of the regular session, January 12, 1909

House of Representatives

Democrats in the House of Representatives
[130 of 133 = 98%]

Republicans in the House of Representatives
[3 of 133 = 2%]

Senate

Democrats in the Senate
[30 of 31 = 97%]

Republicans in the Senate
[1 of 31 = 3%]

Districts represented by more than one person

Chamber & District Name Party Dates of service Notes
H District 4 Charles Roach Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 4 James Coleman Mason Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 19 Franklin Oliver Fuller Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 19 Samuel Houston German Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 20 John Miller Horger Democrat 01/12/1909 - 06/18/1910  
H District 20 John William Minton Democrat 08/01/1910 - 01/10/1911   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 23 Jens Moller Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 23 Marsene Johnson Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 24 Charles C. Highsmith Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 24 August Von Haxthausen Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 24 Isaac Mayfield Standifer Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 26 William Howard Driggers Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 26 Andrew Todd McKinney Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 29 John Allen Mobley, Sr. Democrat 01/12/1909 - 12/22/1909  
H District 29 Robert Enoch Yantis Democrat 07/28/1910 - 01/10/1911   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 33 Benjamin Franklin Vaughan Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 33 Ed Westbrook Democrat 01/12/1909 - 12/03/1909  
H District 33 Benjamin Franklin Looney Democrat 07/26/1910 - 01/10/1911   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 34 Sam Rayburn Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 34 Thomas J. Self Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 35 John Wesley Marshall Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 35 John Richard Elliott Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 35 Jonathan Lee Aston Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 36 Thomas Jefferson Bowles Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 36 Charles Milton Spradley Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 37 Claude McKenzie McCallum Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 37 William Lyne Crawford II Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 37 Edwin Cash Lively Democrat 01/12/1909 - 12/22/1910  
H District 39 Whitley S. Stepter Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 39 Edward J. Anderson Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 40 William Allen Tarver Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 40 Samuel Josiah Jennings Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 48 Stephen Munson Meeks Democrat 01/12/1909 - 05/11/1909  
H District 48 Sylvester Wilburn Unknown 07/27/1910 - 01/10/1911   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 49 William Andreas Trenckmann Democrat 01/12/1909 - 05/05/1910  
H District 49 Leonard E. Tillotson Democrat 07/26/1910 - 01/10/1911   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 50 Charles Alexander Allen Democrat 01/12/1909 - 02/24/1909  
H District 50 John Matthews Democrat 04/08/1909 - 01/10/1911   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 61 James Harvey Robertson Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 61 Augustus Garwood Schluter Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 68 John Maxwell Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 68 Samuel Edward Stratton Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 69 William Carey O'Bryan Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 69 Austin Milton Kennedy Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 70 Charles B. McLain Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 70 Huling Parker Robertson Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 72 Luther Nickels Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 72 John Dudley Stephenson Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 77 Richard Bonna Ridgway Democrat 01/12/1909 - 06/01/1910  
H District 77 Pryor Morton Johnston Democrat 07/29/1910 - 01/10/1911   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 78 William Bernice Fitzhugh Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 78 Louis J. Wortham Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 86 Edward Cyrus Gaines Democrat 01/12/1909 - 06/16/1910  
H District 86 Tipton Smith Ross Democrat 08/01/1910 - 01/10/1911   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 90 William Giesen Democrat 01/12/1909 - 08/13/1909  
H District 90 Daniel Watson Democrat 07/28/1910 - 01/10/1911   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 92 Thad T. Adams Democrat 01/12/1909 - 12/10/1910  
H District 92 Otto Wahrmund Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 92 Chester Hunter Terrell Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 95 José Tomás Canales Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 95 James Abijah Brooks Democrat 01/12/1909 - 01/10/1911  
H District 96 Charles Cushman Pierce Republican 01/12/1909 - 06/27/1910  
H District 96 Justo Sabor Penn Democrat 08/11/1910 - 01/10/1911   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 104 David Jeff Brookreson Democrat 01/12/1909 - 11/05/1909  
H District 104 Richard Burton Humphrey Democrat 07/26/1910 - 01/10/1911   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 106 John Richard Bowman Democrat 01/12/1909 - 12/01/1909  
H District 106 Joseph Clark Hunt Democrat 08/05/1910 - 01/10/1911   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 107 Charles H. Jenkins Democrat 01/12/1909 - 03/09/1910  
H District 107 Ernest Ashley McDaniel Democrat 07/29/1910 - 01/10/1911   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 2 H. Bascom Thomas Democrat 01/12/1909 - 05/15/1910  
S District 2 John L. Ratliff Democrat 08/01/1910 - 01/14/1913   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 17 Thomas Washington Masterson Democrat 01/08/1907 - 10/12/1909  
S District 17 John Edward Kauffman Democrat 07/28/1910 - 01/10/1911   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 31 John Price Hayter Democrat 01/12/1909 - 06/15/1910  
S District 31 Charles Vernon Terrell Democrat 07/28/1910 - 01/14/1913   Not included in the statistics above.

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