8th Texas Legislature

The 8th Texas Legislature met from November 7, 1859 to April 9, 1861 in its regular session, a first called session, and an adjourned session. All members of the House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Senate were elected in 1859.

Sessions

 * 8th Regular session: November 7, 1859 – February 13, 1860
 * 8th First called session: January 21–February 9, 1861
 * 8th Adjourned session: March 18–April 9, 1861

Senate

 * Lieutenant Governor: Edward Clark, Democrat
 * President pro tempore: Jesse Grimes, Democrat, Regular session

House of Representatives

 * Speaker of the House : M. D. K. Taylor, Democrat

Members
Members of the Eighth Texas Legislature at the beginning of the regular session, November 7, 1859:

House of Representatives

 * Basilio Benavides
 * Anthony Martin Branch
 * Kindallis Bryan
 * Constantine W. Buckley
 * William Clark
 * David B. Culberson
 * Nicholas Henry Darnell
 * John Wilson Davis, Jr.
 * Isaac N. Dennis
 * David Catchings Dickson
 * Edward Dougherty
 * Foscue
 * James Carlton Francis
 * Benjamin Cromwell Franklin
 * De Witt Clinton Fort
 * Lindsay Hagler, San Patricio County
 * James Marshall Harrison
 * J. W. Henderson
 * Alfred Marmaduke Hobby
 * Richard Bennett Hubbard, Jr.
 * Henry Lawrence Kinney
 * Francis J. Lynch
 * John Haywood Manley
 * Samuel Maverick
 * John N. McClarty
 * George McKnight
 * Roger Q. Mills
 * William Wright Morris
 * Titus H. Mundine
 * José Ángel Navarro
 * Allison Nelson
 * Benjamin F. Parker
 * Samuel Redgate
 * Joel Walter Robison
 * Shelton
 * Daniel McDowell Short
 * John Dennis Stell
 * M. D. K. Taylor
 * Robert H. Taylor
 * Robert J. Townes
 * Jacob Waelder
 * Charles A. Warfield
 * George Washington Whitmore
 * William Amos Wortham
 * Friedrich Wilhelm von Wrede, Jr.

Senate

 * District 15: Sexton did not return from Confederate States Army service in time to meet with the legislature.
 * District 25: Shelley elected in special election held March 25, 1861 and sworn in with the Ninth Texas Legislature.