The 51st Texas Legislature met from January 11, 1949 to July 6, 1949. All members present during this session were elected in the 1948 general elections.

Senate

Affiliation		Members	Note
	Democratic Party Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...	31
Total		31

House

Affiliation		Members	Note
	Democratic Party Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...	150
Total		150

Senate

• Lieutenant Governor: Allan Shivers
  Allan Shivers
  Robert Allan Shivers was a Texas politician who led the conservative faction of the Texas Democratic Party during the turbulent 1940s and 1950s...
  
   (D) until September 1, 1949. Upon the death of Governor Beauford H. Jester
  Beauford H. Jester
  Beauford Halbert Jester was a U.S. political figure, the son of George Taylor Jester and his second wife, Frances Gordon Jester. He served as the 36th Governor of Texas from 1947 until 1949, when he died of a heart attack...
  
  , he became Governor and the Office of Lieutenant Governor was vacant.
• President Pro Tempore: Kyle Vick (D)

George C. Morris (D)

Grady Hazlewood

Grady Hazlewood

Grady Hazlewood was a Democratic member of the Texas State Senate from 1941 to 1971, having represented the Amarillo-based District 31 in the Panhandle...

 (D)

Wardlow W. Lane (D)

Senate

Dist. 1

• Howard A. Carney (D), Atlanta
  Atlanta, Texas
  Atlanta is a city in Cass County, Texas, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 5,745.-Geography:Atlanta is located at ....
  
  

Dist. 2

• Wardlow Lane (D), Center
  Center, Texas
  Center is a city in Shelby County, Texas, United States. The population was 5,678 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Shelby County...
  
  

Dist. 3

• Ottis E. Lock (D), Lufkin
  Lufkin, Texas
  Lufkin is a city in Angelina County, Texas, United States. Founded in 1882, the population was 35,067 in 2010. It is the county seat of Angelina County, and is situated in Deep East Texas.-History:...
  
  

Dist. 4

• W. R. Cousins, Jr. (D), Beaumont
  Beaumont, Texas
  Beaumont is a city in and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas, United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's population was 118,296 at the 2010 census. With Port Arthur and Orange, it forms the Golden Triangle, a major industrial area on the...
  
  

Dist. 5

• Mrs. Neveille H. Colson (D), Navasota
  Navasota, Texas
  Navasota is a city in Grimes County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,789 at the 2000 census. In 2005, the Texas Legislature named the city "The Blues Capital of Texas," in honor of the late Mance Lipscomb, a Navasota native and blues musician....
  
  

Dist. 6

• James E. Taylor (D), Kerens
  Kerens, Texas
  Kerens is a city in Navarro County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,681 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Kerens is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land....
  
  

Dist. 7

• Warren McDonald (D), Tyler
  Tyler, Texas
  Tyler is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, in the United States. It takes its name from President John Tyler . The city had a population of 109,000 in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau...
  
  

Dist. 8

• A. Aiken, Jr. (D), Paris
  Paris, Texas
  Paris, Texas is a city located northeast of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex in Lamar County, Texas, in the United States. It is situated in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods. Physiographically, these regions are part of the West Gulf Coastal Plain. In 1900, 9,358 people lived...
  
  

Dist. 9

• Charles R. Jones (D), Bonham
  Bonham, Texas
  Bonham is a city in Fannin County, Texas, United States. The population was 10,127 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Fannin County. James Bonham sought the aid of James Fannin at the Battle of the Alamo....
  
  

Dist. 10

• G. C. Morris (D), Greenville
  Greenville, Texas
  Greenville is the county seat, and the largest city, of Hunt County, Texas, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 25,557....
  
  

Dist. 11

• Fred Harris (D), Dallas
  Dallas, Texas
  Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
  
  

Dist. 12

• Crawford Martin
  Crawford Martin
  Crawford Collins Martin was a Texas State Senator, Texas Secretary of State and Attorney General of Texas from 1967 until his death.-Early life:...
  
   (D), Hillsboro
  Hillsboro, Texas
  Hillsboro is a city in and the county seat of Hill County in Central Texas. The population was 8,232 at the 2000 census.Hillsboro, located on Interstate 35 where I-35E and I-35W meet south of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, is the primary center for trade and commerce in Hill County...
  
  

Dist. 13

• Kyle Vick (D), Waco
  Waco, Texas
  Waco is a city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas. Situated along the Brazos River and on the I-35 corridor, halfway between Dallas and Austin, it is the economic, cultural, and academic center of the 'Heart of Texas' region....
  
  

Dist. 14

• William T. "Bill" Moore
  William T. Moore (Texas politician)
  William Tyler Moore, Sr., known as W. T. 'Bill' Moore , was an attorney and businessman in Bryan, Texas, who was a conservative Democratic member of the Texas State Senate from District 5 from 1967 until 1981.Moore originally represented District 14 from 1949 to 1953 and then revised District 11...
  
   (D), Bryan
  Bryan, Texas
  Bryan is a city in Brazos County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 76,201. It is the county seat of Brazos County and is located in the heart of the Brazos Valley . It shares its border with the city of College Station, which lies to its south...
  
  

Dist. 15

• Gus J. Strauss (D), Hallettsville
  Hallettsville, Texas
  Hallettsville is a city in Lavaca County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,345 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Lavaca County. The town is home to the Texas Championship Domino Hall of Fame and also hosts a dominoes tournament every year in January...
  
  

Dist. 16

• Searcy Bracewell (D), Houston
  Houston, Texas
  Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
  
  

Dist. 17

• Jimmy Phillips
  Jimmy Phillips (Texas)
  Jimmy Phillips was a Texas State Senator from Angleton, Texas in the 1940s and 50s.-Early life:Phillips was born in Brazoria County, Texas, on May 17, 1913. He was orphaned at an early age and raised by extended family and friends in Angleton...
  
   (D), Angleton
  Angleton, Texas
  Angleton is a city in and the county seat of Brazoria County, Texas, United States, within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. Angleton lies at the intersection of State Highway 288, State Highway 35, and the Union Pacific Railroad. The population was 18,130 at the 2000 census...
  
  

Dist. 18

• John J. Bell (D), Cuero
  Cuero, Texas
  Cuero is a city in DeWitt County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,571 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of DeWitt County. It is also unofficially known as the "turkey capital of the world"...
  
  

Dist. 19

• R. A. Weinert (D), Seguin
  Seguin, Texas
  Seguin is a city in Guadalupe County, Texas, in the United States. It is part of the San Antonio-New Braunfels Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 22,011; the July 1, 2009 Census estimate, however, showed the population had increased to 26,842...
  
  

Dist. 20

• Carlos Ashley (D), Llano
  Llano, Texas
  -History:Llano County was established in compliance with a February 1, 1856, state legislative act. The Llano River location was chosen in an election held on June 14, 1856, under a live oak on the south bank of the river, near the present site of Roy Inks Bridge in Llano...
  
  

Dist. 21

• W. A. Shofner (D), Temple
  Temple, Texas
  Temple is a city in Bell County, Texas, United States. Located near the county seat of Belton, Temple lies in the region referred to as Central Texas. Located off Interstate 35, Temple is 65 miles north of Austin and 34 miles south of Waco. In the 2010 Census, Temple's population was 66,102, an...
  
  

Dist. 22

• R. L. Proffer (D), Justin
  Justin, Texas
  Justin is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,891 at the 2005 census.-History:In 1848, approximately 70 followers of the French utopian socialist Etienne Cabet arrived in what is now Justin to found an Icarian community. The attempt failed.Contrary to popular belief,...
  
  

Dist. 23

• George Moffett (D), Chillicothe
  Chillicothe, Texas
  Chillicothe is a city in Hardeman County, Texas, United States. The population was 798 at the 2000 census.The historical preservationist Myna Potts resides in Chillicothe...
  
  

Dist. 24

• Pat Bullock (D), Colorado City
  Colorado City, Texas
  Colorado City is a city in and the county seat of Mitchell County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,281 at the 2000 census....
  
  

Dist. 25

• Dorsey Hardeman (D), San Angelo
  San Angelo, Texas
  San Angelo is a city in the state of Texas. Located in West Central Texas it is the county seat of Tom Green County. As of 2010 according to the United States Census Bureau, the city had a total population of 93,200...
  
  

Dist. 26

• Walter Tynan (D), San Antonio
  San Antonio, Texas
  San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...
  
  

Dist. 27

• Rogers Kelly (D), Edinburg
  Edinburg, Texas
  Edinburg is a city in and the county seat of Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. The population was 77,100 at the 2010 census. The University of Texas–Pan American, the only fully accredited four-year university in the Rio Grande Valley, is located in Edinburg.Edinburg is part of the...
  
  

Dist. 28

• Keith Kelly (D), Fort Worth
  Fort Worth, Texas
  Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...
  
  

Dist. 29

• Hill D. Hudson (D), Pecos
  Pecos, Texas
  Pecos is the largest city in and the county seat of Reeves County, Texas, United States. It is situated in the river valley on the west bank of the Pecos River at the eastern edge of the Chihuahuan Desert and the Trans-Pecos region of west Texas and near the southern border of New Mexico...
  
  

Dist. 30

• Kilmer B. Corbin
  Kilmer B. Corbin
  Kilmer Blaine Corbin, Sr. , the father of actor Barry Corbin, was a Lubbock, Texas, attorney who served as a Democratic member of the Texas State Senate from Distrrict 28 for two terms from 1949 to 1957....
  
   (D), Lamesa
  Lamesa, Texas
  Lamesa is a city in and the county seat of Dawson County, Texas, United States. The population was 9,952 at the 2000 census. Located south of Lubbock on the Llano Estacado, Lamesa was founded in 1903. Most of the economy is based on cattle ranching and cotton farming. The Preston E...
  
  

Dist. 31

• Grady Hazlewood
  Grady Hazlewood
  Grady Hazlewood was a Democratic member of the Texas State Senate from 1941 to 1971, having represented the Amarillo-based District 31 in the Panhandle...
  
   (D), Amarillo
  Amarillo, Texas
  Amarillo is the 14th-largest city, by population, in the state of Texas, the largest in the Texas Panhandle, and the seat of Potter County. A portion of the city extends into Randall County. The population was 190,695 at the 2010 census...
  
  

House

The House was composed of 150 Democrats.

House members included future Governors Preston Smith and Dolph Briscoe

Dolph Briscoe

Dolph Briscoe, Jr. was a Uvalde, Texas rancher and businessman who was the 41st Governor of Texas between 1973 and 1979....

, and future Congressmen Jack Brooks

Jack Brooks (politician)

Jack Bascom Brooks is a retired Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Texas, who served for more than 40 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was defeated for reelection in the 1994 election...

, Bob Casey

Robert R. Casey

Robert Randolph "Bob" Casey was a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was a Democrat from Texas.-Early life:...

, Abraham Kazen

Abraham Kazen

Abraham Kazen, Jr., usually known as Chick Kazen was a U.S. Representative from Texas from 1967 to 1985.- Education :...

 and J.T. Rutherford

J.T. Rutherford

J. T. Rutherford was a United States Representative from the state of Texas. He was a Democrat.He was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, but moved to Odessa, Texas, in 1934, where he attended public schools. He served as an enlisted man in the United States Marine Corps from 1942 to 1946, of which...

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Sources

• Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide, 1949-51. A.H. Belo Corporation, Dallas, Texas.