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Texas was admitted to the United States on December 29, 1845, and elects its U.S. senators to class 1 and class 2. The state's current senators are Republicans John Cornyn (serving since 2002) and Ted Cruz (serving since 2013). A total of 27 Democrats, 7 Republicans, and 1 Liberal Republican have served or are serving as U.S. senators from Texas.
The Texas Senate is the upper house of the Texas Legislature, with the Texas House of Representatives being the lower house. Together, they compose the state legislature of the state of Texas . There are 31 members of the Senate, representing single-member districts across the U.S. state of Texas , with populations of approximately 940,000 per ...
Smallest upper house: Alaska Senate (20 senators) Largest lower house: New Hampshire House of Representatives (400 representatives) Smallest lower house: Alaska House of Representatives (40 representatives) There are a total of 1,972 state senators nationwide, with the average state senate having 39 members.
The final factor is the population of the senator's state. [1] [2] [3] Senators who were sworn in during the middle of the Congress (up until the last senator who was not sworn in early after winning the November 1940 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number. In this Congress, the most senior junior senator was Gerald Nye.
Earle Bradford Mayfield (April 12, 1881 – June 23, 1964) was a Texas lawyer who, from 1907 to 1913, was a Texas State Senator. In 1922, he was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat . He was the first U.S. Senator to be widely considered by the voters to be a member of the revived Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.
A native of Medina, he represented Texas as a Democrat in the U.S. Congress from 1919 to 1931. He also served in the Texas House of Representatives and in the Texas State Senate. Hudspeth moved to San Antonio in 1940, and died there on March 19, 1941. He is buried in the Mission Burial Park in San Antonio.
Texas Constitution of 1866: 11th Texas Legislature: 1866 Texas Constitution of 1869: 12th Texas Legislature: 1870 13th Texas Legislature: 1873 14th Texas Legislature: 1874 Texas Constitution of 1876 [citation needed] 15th Texas Legislature: 1876 16th Texas Legislature: 1879 17th Texas Legislature: 1881 18th Texas Legislature: 1883 19th Texas ...