Fifty-fourth Texas Legislature

The 54th Texas Legislature met from January 11, 1955, to June 7, 1955. All members present during this session were elected in the 1954 general elections.

Sessions

Regular Session: January 11, 1955 - June 7, 1955

Party summary

Senate

Affiliation		Members	Note
	Democratic Party	31
Total		31

House

Affiliation		Members	Note
	Democratic Party	150
Total		150

Officers

Senate

Lieutenant Governor: Ben Ramsey (D)
President Pro Tempore: Crawford Martin (D)
Neveille H. Colson (D)

House

Speaker of the House: Jim T. Lindsey (D)

Members

Senate

Dist. 1

Howard A. Carney (D), Atlanta

Dist. 2

Wardlow Lane (D), Center

Dist. 3

Ottis E. Lock (D), Lufkin

Dist. 4

Jep Fuller (D), Port Arthur

Dist. 5

Neveille H. Colson (D), Navasota

Dist. 6

James E. Taylor (D), Kerens

Dist. 7

Warren McDonald (D), Tyler

Dist. 8

George M. Parkhouse (D), Dallas

Dist. 9

Ray Roberts (D), McKinney

Dist. 10

Doyle Willis (D), Fort Worth

Dist. 11

William T. "Bill" Moore (D), Bryan

Dist. 12

Crawford Martin (D), Hillsboro

Dist. 13

Jarrard Secrest (D), Temple

Dist. 14

Johnnie B. Rogers (D), Austin

Dist. 15

Gus J. Strauss (D), Hallettsville

Dist. 16

Searcy Bracewell (D), Houston

Dist. 17

Jimmy Phillips (D), Angleton

Dist. 18

William S. Fly (D), Victoria

Dist. 19

Rudolph A. Weinert (D), Seguin

Dist. 20

William H. Shireman (D), Corpus Christi

Dist. 21

Abraham Kazen (D), Laredo

Dist. 22

Wayne Wagonseller (D), Stoneburg

Dist. 23

George Moffett (D), Chillicothe

Dist. 24

David Ratliff (D), Stamford

Dist. 25

Dorsey B. Hardeman (D), San Angelo

Dist. 26

Oswald Latimer (D), San Antonio

Dist. 27

Rogers Kelly (D), Edinburg

Dist. 28

Keith Kelly (D), Fort Worth

Dist. 29

Frank Owen, III (D), El Paso

Dist. 30

Andrew J. "Andy" Rogers (D), Childress

Dist. 31

Grady Hazlewood (D), Amarillo

House

The House was composed of 150 Democrats.

House members included future Governor Dolph Briscoe, future federal judge Barefoot Sanders and future Congressmen Kika de la Garza and Joe Pool, as well as future Texas Attorney General Waggoner Carr, and future Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jack Hightower along with future Land Commissioner Jerry Sadler.

Sources

Legislative Reference Library of Texas,

gollark: So by increasing everyone else's raw IQ score or creating one very intelligent entity I can decrease your IQ.

gollark: By definition it is normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15.

gollark: I actually managed to build a better IQ-stealing device using some useful properties of IQ.

gollark: Also via orbital lasers.

gollark: !unweeb 私たちがオリビアちんに救わられる！

External links

Texas Legislature Online
Texas Senate
Texas House of Representatives
Election Results from the Office of the Secretary of State
Legislative Reference Library

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.