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Party affiliation - 13th Legislature

  Totals based on membership as of first day of the regular session, January 14, 1873

House of Representatives

Democrats in the House of Representatives
[75 of 87 = 86%]

Republicans in the House of Representatives
[12 of 87 = 14%]

Senate

Democrats in the Senate
[15 of 30 = 50%]

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

Other parties in the Senate
[12 of 30 = 40%]

Districts represented by more than one person

Chamber & District Name Party Dates of service Notes
H District 1 James H. Armstrong Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 1 Henry Harrison Ford Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 1 Arthur Thomas Watts Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 2 Sam Robb Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 2 Samuel Baker Bewley Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 2 Daniel McDowell Short Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 3 U.G. Mitchell Walker Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 3 Frank Rainey Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 3 John Titus Smith Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 4 James Marshall Harrison Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 4 John Matthews McDonald Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 4 James Eastland Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 5 Thomas Gillespie Allison Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 5 William Wright Morris Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 5 Augustus James Booty Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 6 Edward Sharp Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/17/1873  
H District 6 Robert Kirkpatrick Gaston Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 6 Caleb Cobb Galloway Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 6 Bluford Washington Brown Democrat 01/17/1873 - 01/13/1874   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 7 Henry Moore Republican 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 7 Meshack Roberts Republican 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 8 William Harrison Tilson Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 8 Preston Rose Scott Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 8 Marion DeKalb Taylor Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 9 William L. Mabry Republican 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 9 William A. Ellett Republican 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 9 William Augustus Shaw Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 10 Hudson William Nelson Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 10 William R. Lane Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 10 Jonathan Russell Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 11 Samuel C. Day Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 11 John Cunningham Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 11 Eli Jenway Shelton Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 12 Alexander Rossy Democrat Elected but never sworn   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 12 John Adriance Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 12 Thomas Miller Joseph Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 12 Chauncy Brewer Sabin Republican 04/04/1873 - 01/13/1874   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 13 William Greene Republican 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 13 Charles Luther Abbott Republican 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 13 Henry Phelps Republican 02/13/1873 - 01/13/1874   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 14 Richard Allen Republican 01/14/1873 - 03/22/1873  
H District 14 Em Anderson Republican 01/14/1873 - 03/22/1873  
H District 14 F.A. Michael Democrat 01/14/1873 - 03/22/1873  
H District 14 Gustave Cook Democrat 03/22/1873 - 01/13/1874   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 14 Abner S. Lipscomb Democrat Elected but never sworn   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 14 Erich F. Schmidt Democrat 03/22/1873 - 01/13/1874   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 15 John S. Mills Republican 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 15 Richard Williams Republican 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 15 James H. Washington Republican 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 16 Peter Diller Republican Elected but never sworn   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 16 Allen W. Wilder Republican 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 16 Charles J. Stockbridge Republican 04/04/1873 - 01/13/1874   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 17 Henry Clay Ghent Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 17 John W. Carroll Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 17 Andrew Sidney Broaddus Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 18 Charles P. Salter Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 18 Hilary Manning Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 18 William Daniel Wood Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 19 James Monroe Anderson Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 19 Davis Prendergast Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 19 Burlington Wesley Rimes Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 20 Levi Gillette Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 20 Clinton McKamy Winkler Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 20 Josiah Wright Kemble Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 21 Khleber Miller Van Zandt Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 21 John Henry Brown Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 21 Edward Chambers Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 22 Richard Harris Bordeaux Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 22 William Henry Trolinger Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 22 Stephen Augustus Venters Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 23 Willis Scott Bledsoe Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 23 John Newton Doyle Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 23 William Veale Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 24 Alfred Sturgis Thurmond Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 24 Marcellus Eugene Kleberg Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 24 Jonathan Payne Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 25 Johann Frederic Leyendecker Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 25 Thomas Asbury Hester Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 25 George Washington Smith Democrat 01/14/1873 - 10/21/1873  
H District 26 Julius Noeggerath Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 26 Louis Franke Democrat 01/14/1873 - 02/19/1873  
H District 26 Ira Griffin Killough Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 27 Leonidas Jefferson Storey Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 27 John Ireland Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 27 William Branch Sayers Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 28 David Decatur Rosborough Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 28 Orlando Newton Hollingsworth Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 28 Overton Fletcher Davenport Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 28 William Harrison Westfall Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 29 Julius Berends Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 29 Gustav V. Hoffmann Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 29 Joseph Albert Tivy Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 29 Ashley Newton Denton Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 30 Henry Addington Gilpin Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 30 John Files Tom Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  
H District 30 Stephen Powers Democrat 01/14/1873 - 01/13/1874  

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