18th Texas Legislature

The 18th Texas Legislature met from January 9, 1883 to February 6, 1884 in its regular session and one called session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in the 1882 general election.

Sessions

 * 18th Regular session: January 9–April 13, 1883
 * 18th First called session: January 8–February 6, 1884

Senate

 * Lieutenant Governor
 * Francis Marion Martin, Democrat


 * President pro tempore
 * Augustus W. Houston, Democrat, Regular session
 * Samuel Bronson Cooper, Democrat, ad interim, First called session

House of Representatives

 * Speaker of the House
 * Charles Reese Gibson, Democrat

Members
Members of the Eighteenth Texas Legislature as of the beginning of the Regular Session, January 9, 1883:

House of Representatives

 * Benjamin M. Baker
 * William John Caven
 * R. J. Evans
 * George Finlay
 * George Washington Lafayette Fly
 * Lafayette Lumpkin Foster
 * Charles Reese Gibson
 * Andrew Jackson Harris
 * William Kercheval Homan
 * Joseph Chappell Hutcheson
 * John Marks Moore
 * Absolom C. Oliver
 * George C. Pendleton—District 24
 * Thomas A. Rodríguez
 * George Robertson Reeves
 * Benjamin Dudley Tarlton
 * George T. Todd
 * Arthur Tompkins
 * John Henry Traylor
 * James W. Truitt
 * William Wallace Weatherred
 * Charles Louis Wurzbach
 * G. W. Wyatt
 * Alexander John Leo