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Eddie Bernice Johnson, first Black woman ever elected to public office from Dallas, first woman in Texas history to lead a major Texas House committee (the Labor Committee), and the first registered nurse elected to Congress. Julie Johnson, U.S. Representative (2025-present) Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr., father of President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963 ...
Legislative Reference Library of Texas (May 6, 2006). "Speakers of the Texas House of Representatives, 1846-present". Archived from the original on July 25, 2010; Sorensen, Stephanie S. (2006). "Speakers of the Texas House of Representatives"
The Texas Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Texas. It is a bicameral body composed of a 31-member Senate and a 150-member House of Representatives. The state legislature meets at the Capitol in Austin.
The House of Representatives was to be made up of 24-40 members. [1] until such time as the population of the republic should exceed 100,000.When the population exceeded this number the house was to be made up of "not less than forty nor more than one hundred pieces provided that each county was entitled to at least one representative."
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Texas. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Texas. The list of names should be complete as of ...
The 1st Texas Legislature convened from February 16 to May 13, 1846, in regular session. Members of the House of Representatives and Senate were elected in December 1845, after an election on October 13, 1845, that ratified the proposed state constitution.
The First Congress of the Republic of Texas, consisting of the Senate of the Republic of Texas and House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas, met in Columbia at two separate buildings (one for each chamber) and then in Houston at the present-day site of The Rice from October 3, 1836, to June 13, 1837, during the first year of Sam Houston's presidency.
District 62 is a district of the Texas House of Representatives that serves all of Grayson, Franklin, Fannin, and Delta Counties. This district had its first representative in 1853. [1] The current representative for District 62 is Republican Shelley Luther. [2] [3]