7th Texas Legislature

The 7th Texas Legislature met from November 2, 1857, to February 16, 1858, in its regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1857.

Sessions

 * 7th Regular session: November 2, 1857 – February 16, 1858

Senate

 * Lieutenant Governor: Francis Richard Lubbock, Democrat
 * President pro tempore: M. D. K. Taylor, Democrat, Regular session
 * Samuel A. Maverick, Democrat, Ad interim

House of Representatives

 * Speaker of the House
 * William S. Taylor, Democrat, 1857–18 January 1858
 * Matthew Fielding Locke, Democrat, 18 January 1858–1859

Members
Members of the Seventh Texas Legislature at the beginning of the regular session, November 2, 1857:

House of Representatives

 * Hamilton P. Bee
 * John Henry Brown
 * Constantine W. Buckley
 * James G. Collier, Tyler County
 * Isaac N. Dennis
 * David Catchings Dickson
 * Randolph C. Doom
 * Horatio White Fisher
 * Lindsay Hagler, San Patricio County
 * James Marshall Harrison
 * Spearman Holland
 * Matthew Fielding Locke, Democrat
 * Eli T. Merriman
 * José Ángel Navarro
 * Moses Fisk Roberts
 * William R. Shannon, Democrat
 * Charles William Tait
 * William S. Taylor, Democrat
 * Benjamin F. Carroll