Terms of Service

• Senate, 17th ^{(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)} Legislature
  1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
  Democrat
  

(1) 2-year term; entire Senate went up for reelection in 1882 due to redistricting. Act passed May 3, 1882, 17th Legislature, C.S., ch. 13, Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(2) "The regular democratic ticket, State and county, all elected," p. 1, 11/4/1880. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(4) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.
(5) 17th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll call of newly elected Senators, oath of office administered, 1/11/1881, p. 1. Senate Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

• Photograph. R.M. Wynne, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Portrait and biographical sketch, Colonel Richard M. Wynne, Volume II, pp. 110-112. A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of North and West Texas 1906.
• WYNNE, RICHARD M. (1844-1912). Handbook of Texas Online .

Committee Information

• 17th R.S. - 1881
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Contingent Expenses  
• Federal Relations  
• Judicial Districts  
• Judiciary No. 2  
• Penitentiaries  
• Privileges and Elections (Chair) 
• Public Claims and Accounts  
• Senatorial and Representative Districts (Chair) 
• Senatorial and Representative Districts, Apportionment (Co-Chair) 
• State Indebtedness