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Members of the 50th Legislature (1947) View roster for another session:

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Chamber	Member	District	Service				City	County
S	A.M. Aikin, Jr.	8	S H	1937 - 1979 1933 - 1937	45th - 65th 43rd - 44th	D D	Paris	Lamar
S	Buster Brown	21	S	1945 - 1949	49th - 50th	D	Temple	Bell
S	Pat M. Bullock	24	S H	1942 - 1953 1941 - 1942	47th - 52nd 47th	D D	Colorado City	Mitchell
S	Howard A. Carney	1	S	1945 - 1953	49th - 52nd	D	Atlanta	Cass
S	T.C. Chadick	7	S	1941 - 1949	47th - 50th	D	Quitman	Wood
S	Wilfred Roy Cousins, Jr. F	4	S H	1947 - 1951 1945 - 1947	50th - 51st 49th	D D	Beaumont	Jefferson
S	A.B. Crawford	12	S	1945 - 1949	49th - 50th	D	Granbury	Hood
S	Dorsey B. Hardeman F	25	S H	1947 - 1969 1939 - 1942	50th - 60th 46th - 47th	D D	San Angelo	Tom Green
S	Fred R. "Red" Harris F	11	H S H H	1951 - 1953 1947 - 1951 1941 - 1941 1935 - 1939	52nd 50th - 51st 47th 44th - 45th	D D D D	Dallas	Dallas
S	Grady Hazlewood	31	S	1941 - 1971	47th - 61st	D	Amarillo	Potter
S	Charles R. Jones	9	S	1943 - 1951	48th - 51st	D	Bonham	Fannin
S	Rogers Kelley	27	S	1939 - 1957	46th - 54th	D	Edinburg	Hidalgo
S	Keith F. Kelly F	28	S	1947 - 1953	50th - 52nd	D	Fort Worth	Tarrant
S	Roger A. Knight	5	S H	1945 - 1949 1941 - 1945	49th - 50th 47th - 48th	D D	Madisonville	Madison
S	Wardlow Lane	2	S	1943 - 1963	48th - 57th	D	Center	Shelby
S	Fred Mauritz	18	S H	1941 - 1947 1935 - 1939	47th - 50th 44th - 45th	D D	Ganado	Jackson
S	George Moffett	23	S H	1939 - 1965 1931 - 1939	46th - 58th 42nd - 45th	D D	Chillicothe	Hardeman
S	George C. Morris	10	S H	1942 - 1951 1935 - 1942	47th - 51st 44th - 47th	D D	Greenville	Hunt
S	Sterling J. Parrish	30	S	1945 - 1949	49th - 50th	D	Lubbock	Lubbock
S	Jimmy Phillips F	17	S H	1947 - 1959 1941 - 1945	50th - 56th 47th - 48th	D D	Angleton	Brazoria
S	Robert L. Proffer F	22	S H	1947 - 1951 1943 - 1947	50th - 51st 48th - 49th	D D	Justin	Denton
S	Ben Ramsey	3	S H	1941 - 1949 1931 - 1935	47th - 50th 42nd - 43rd	D D	San Augustine	San Augustine
S	James A. Stanford	20	S H	1945 - 1949 1941 - 1945	49th - 50th 47th - 48th	D D	Austin	Travis
S	Maribelle Stewart F	16	S	1947 - 1948	50th	D	Houston	Harris
S	W. Lacy Stewart F	16	S	1947 - 1947	50th	D	Houston	Harris
S	Gus J. Strauss F	15	S	1947 - 1957	50th - 54th	D	Hallettsville	Lavaca
S	James E. Taylor	6	S H	1944 - 1949 1939 - 1943	48th - 51st 46th - 47th	D D	Kerens	Navarro
S	Walter Tynan F	26	S	1946 - 1953	49th - 52nd	D	San Antonio	Bexar
S	Kyle Vick	13	S	1941 - 1953	47th - 52nd	D	Waco	McLennan
S	Rudolph Weinert	19	S	1936 - 1963	44th - 57th	D	Seguin	Guadalupe
S	Henry L. Winfield	29	S	1937 - 1949	45th - 50th	D	Fort Stockton	Pecos
S	Joseph Alton York	14	S	1941 - 1949	47th - 50th	D	Bryan	Brazos
H	William Henry Abington F	101-2	H	1947 - 1953	50th - 53rd	D	Fort Worth	Tarrant
H	Henry L. Atkinson	70	H	1945 - 1947	49th - 50th	D	Beeville	Bee
H	Jake K. Aynesworth F	97-2	H	1947 - 1953	50th - 52nd	D	Waco	McLennan
H	William Arthur Barber	2	H	1945 - 1949	49th - 50th	D	Linden	Cass
H	Woodrow Wilson Bean	90	H H	1947 - 1951 1941 - 1941	50th - 51st 47th	D D	Ysleta	El Paso
H	John Junior Bell	68	S H	1947 - 1954 1937 - 1947	50th - 53rd 45th - 50th	D D	Cuero	DeWitt
H	Marshall O. Bell	78-4	H	1943 - 1961	48th - 57th	D	San Antonio	Bexar
H	J. O. Berry F	42	H	1947 - 1949	50th	D	Commerce	Hunt
H	Dallas A. Blankenship	50-5	H	1937 - 1949	45th - 50th	D	Dallas	Dallas
H	Ralph E. "Peppy" Blount F	91	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 52nd	D	Big Spring	Howard
H	J. Searcy Bracewell, Jr. F	19-3	S H	1949 - 1959 1947 - 1949	51st - 55th 50th	D D	Houston	Harris
H	Jack B. Brooks F	16-1	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Beaumont	Jefferson
H	Claude Callaway	114	H	1943 - 1949	48th - 50th	D	Crowell	Foard
H	O. E. Cannon F	71	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Corpus Christi	Nueces
H	Augustine Celaya	72	H	1933 - 1949	43rd - 50th	D	Brownsville	Cameron
H	Edgar O. Chapman	39	H	1945 - 1949	49th - 50th	D	Sulphur Springs	Hopkins
H	Tom Cheatham	68	H	1947 - 1957	50th - 54th	D	Cuero	DeWitt
H	Davis Clifton F	43	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	McKinney	Collin
H	Turner M. Collie F	106	H	1947 - 1953	50th - 52nd	D	Eastland	Eastland
H	Neveille Colson	27	S H	1949 - 1967 1939 - 1949	51st - 59th 46th - 50th	D D	Navasota	Grimes
H	Charles M. Conner	113	H	1945 - 1949	49th - 50th	D	Haskell	Haskell
H	Warren C. "Red" Cowen F	102	H H	1953 - 1963 1947 - 1949	53rd - 57th 50th	D D	Fort Worth	Tarrant
H	Jack Cox F	108	H	1947 - 1953	50th - 52nd	D	Breckenridge	Stephens
H	William Craig F	124	H	1947 - 1953	50th - 52nd	D	Miami	Roberts
H	Carlton Crawford	21	H	1945 - 1949	49th - 50th	D	Palacios	Matagorda
H	John L. Crosthwait	50-1	H H	1945 - 1961 1941 - 1943	49th - 56th 47th	D D	Dallas	Dallas
H	Gordon R. Davis	97-1	H H	1947 - 1949 1941 - 1945	50th 47th - 48th	D D	Waco	McLennan
H	Britton T. Edwards F	77	H	1947 - 1949	50th	D	La Pryor	Zavala
H	George W. Elliott F	88	H	1947 - 1949	50th	D	Odessa	Ector
H	M. B. Etheredge, Jr. F	29	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 52nd	D	Huntsville	Walker
H	Roger Q. Evans	45	H	1941 - 1949	47th - 50th	D	Denison	Grayson
H	John P. Fant	3	H	1945 - 1947	49th - 50th	D	Jefferson	Marion
H	Marvin D. Fertsch	23	H	1945 - 1949	49th - 50th	D	Hallettsville	Lavaca
H	Rae Files Still	100-1	H	1941 - 1951	47th - 51st	D	Waxahachie	Ellis
H	Alford H. Flanagan F	35	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Talco	Titus
H	Joe B. Fleming F	8	H	1947 - 1953	50th - 52nd	D	Henderson	Rusk
H	William S. Fly F	69	S H	1954 - 1961 1947 - 1953	53rd - 56th 50th - 52nd	D D	Victoria	Victoria
H	John K. Ford F	38	H	1947 - 1949	50th	D	Paris	Lamar
H	Joe W. Gandy	126	H	1941 - 1953	47th - 52nd	D	Winnsboro	Franklin
H	Clifton C. Gardner	46	H	1943 - 1951	48th - 51st	D	Gainesville	Cooke
H	D. D. "Doug" Gathings	99	H	1945 - 1951	49th - 51st	D	Cleburne	Johnson
H	Claud Henry Gilmer	86	H	1939 - 1949	46th - 50th	D	Rocksprings	Edwards
H	Louie D. Godard F	17	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Texas City	Galveston
H	Albert N. Green	64	H	1941 - 1949	47th - 50th	D	Cameron	Milam
H	Sid Gregory F	94	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Gatesville	Coryell
H	Lloyd M. Guffey F	22	H H	1959 - 1967 1947 - 1949	56th - 59th 50th	D D	Wharton	Wharton
H	Sam C. Hanna	50-3	H H	1941 - 1951 1935 - 1939	47th - 51st 44th - 45th	D D	Dallas	Dallas
H	William E. Heatly F	104	H	1947 - 1949	50th - 51st	D	De Leon	Comanche
H	James M. Heflin	19-4	H H H	1957 - 1959 1945 - 1951 1937 - 1943	55th 49th - 52nd 45th - 47th	D D D	Houston	Harris
H	Herman A. Heideke	80	H H	1947 - 1957 1919 - 1921	50th - 54th 36th	D R	Seguin	Guadalupe
H	Jewell Helpinstill	9	H	1941 - 1949	47th - 50th	D	Nacogdoches	Nacogdoches
H	A. Robin Henderson	61	H	1945 - 1949	49th - 51st	D	Groesbeck	Limestone
H	Ligon L. Holstein	79	H H	1955 - 1959 1945 - 1953	54th - 55th 49th - 52nd	D D	Pandora	Wilson
H	I. B. Holt F	120	H	1947 - 1949	50th - 51st	D	Olton	Lamb
H	Jimmy P. Horany F	110	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Archer City	Archer
H	Edward P. Hughes Jr. F	13	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Newton	Newton
H	Isom P. Hydrick, Jr.	5	H	1945 - 1949	49th - 50th	D	Marshall	Harrison
H	Samuel Isaacks	89-1	H H	1939 - 1954 1903 - 1905	46th - 53rd 28th	D D	El Paso	El Paso
H	Robert Hal Jackson F	49	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Denton	Denton
H	Andy Maynor James F	59	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Hillsboro	Hill
H	William S. Jameson F	89-2	H	1947 - 1949	50th - 51st	D	El Paso	El Paso
H	Pearce Johnson F	82-1	H	1947 - 1957	50th - 54th	D	Austin	Travis
H	Albert M. Jones	98	H	1941 - 1953	47th - 52nd	D	Valley Mills	Bosque
H	Fred J. Jones	40	H	1945 - 1949	49th - 50th	D	Lone Oak	Hunt
H	Obie Jones F	82-2	H H	1953 - 1963 1947 - 1949	53rd - 57th 50th	D D	Austin	Travis
H	Abraham "Chick" Kazen F	75	S H	1953 - 1967 1947 - 1953	53rd - 59th 50th - 52nd	D D	Laredo	Webb
H	Joe Tom Kennington F	1	H	1947 - 1949	50th	D	Texarkana	Bowie
H	Joe Kilgore F	73	H	1947 - 1955	50th - 53rd	D	McAllen	Hidalgo
H	Leslie King F	112	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Harrold	Wilbarger
H	Ray Kirkpatrick F	41	H	1947 - 1953	50th - 52nd	D	Trenton	Fannin
H	Gus M. Lanier	56	H	1945 - 1947	49th - 50th	D	Marquez	Leon
H	Oswald Latimer F	78-5	S H	1953 - 1957 1947 - 1953	53rd - 54th 50th - 52nd	D D	San Antonio	Bexar
H	Otis Lee F	16-2	H H	1953 - 1957 1947 - 1951	53rd - 54th 50th - 51st	D D	Port Arthur	Jefferson
H	Henry G. Lehman	65	H	1937 - 1957	45th - 54th	D	Giddings	Lee
H	Don A. Lewis F	100-2	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Midlothian	Ellis
H	C. G. Lightfoot	10	H	1945 - 1949	49th - 50th	D	Timpson	Shelby
H	Ottis E. Lock	12	S H	1949 - 1959 1938 - 1949	51st - 55th 45th - 50th	D D	Lufkin	Angelina
H	Dr. J. A. Luedemann	24	H	1945 - 1951	49th - 51st	D	Brenham	Washington
H	Sheffy Mahan F	121	H	1947 - 1949	50th	D	Childress	Childress
H	Thomas Durwood Manford, Jr.	67	H	1941 - 1951	47th - 51st	D	Smiley	Gonzales
H	Preston Mangum	51	H	1943 - 1953	48th - 52nd	D	Dallas	Dallas
H	Donald Markle	18	H	1941 - 1949	47th - 50th	D	Galveston	Galveston
H	Thomas Johnson "Tom" Martin	85	H H	1947 - 1948 1917 - 1917	50th 35th	D D	Fredericksburg	Gillespie
H	Newton W. McCann	3	H H	1947 - 1953 1941 - 1945	50th - 52nd 47th - 48th	D D	Texarkana	Bowie
H	Charles Sidney McClain F	44-2	H	1947 - 1949	50th	D	Sherman	Grayson
H	Vernon McDaniel F	111-2	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 52nd	D	Wichita Falls	Wichita
H	Charles M. McFarland	111-1	H H	1943 - 1949 1935 - 1941	48th - 50th 44th - 46th	D D	Wichita Falls	Wichita
H	Charles McLellan	25	H H	1949 - 1951 1941 - 1947	51st 47th - 50th	D D	Eagle Lake	Colorado
H	Elmer McVey F	57	H	1947 - 1949	50th	D	Teague	Freestone
H	William Andrew Miller, Jr. F	19-5	H	1947 - 1954	50th - 53rd	D	Houston	Harris
H	Carlton Moore, Sr.	19-2	H	1943 - 1959	48th - 55th	D	Houston	Harris
H	Charles B. Moore F	87	H	1947 - 1949	50th	D	Del Rio	Val Verde
H	Grady Moore	36	H	1945 - 1949	49th - 50th	D	Clarksville	Red River
H	W. T. "Bill" Moore F	26	S H	1949 - 1981 1947 - 1949	51st - 66th 50th	D D	Bryan	Brazos
H	Charles Alfred Murphy, Jr. F	19-1	H H	1951 - 1955 1947 - 1949	52nd - 54th 50th	D D	Houston	Harris
H	George O. Nokes, Jr. F	58	S H	1950 - 1953 1947 - 1949	51st - 52nd 50th - 51st	D D	Corsicana	Navarro
H	Frank C. Oltorf F	62	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Marlin	Falls
H	Andrew J. Overton	55	H H	1947 - 1949 1943 - 1945	50th 48th	D D	Palestine	Anderson
H	George Parkhouse	50-4	S H H	1951 - 1967 1943 - 1951 1933 - 1935	52nd - 60th 48th - 51st 43rd	D D D	Dallas	Dallas
H	Lee R. Pearson	107	H H	1951 - 1953 1945 - 1949	52nd 49th - 50th	D D	Ranger	Eastland
H	Donald Peters F	76	H	1947 - 1949	50th	D	Cotulla	La Salle
H	Joe Pyle F	101-1	H	1947 - 1957	50th - 54th	D	Fort Worth	Tarrant
H	Willard (William) Rampy	92	H	1941 - 1951	47th - 52nd	D	Winters	Runnels
H	David Read	14	H	1945 - 1949	49th - 50th	D	Silsbee	Hardin
H	Sam G. Reams F	74	H	1947 - 1949	50th	D	Falfurrias	Brooks
H	William Otey Reed	50-2	H	1933 - 1951	43rd - 51st	D	Dallas	Dallas
H	William Richards F	81-1	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Lockhart	Caldwell
H	Jack F. Ridgeway	78-3	H H	1947 - 1951 1941 - 1945	50th - 51st 47th - 48th	D D	San Antonio	Bexar
H	Harley Sadler	117	S H H	1953 - 1954 1951 - 1953 1943 - 1949	53rd 52nd 48th - 50th	D D D	Sweetwater	Nolan
H	Jonathan B. Sallas	30	H	1941 - 1949	47th - 50th	D	Crockett	Houston
H	Sam C. Sellers	96	H H	1953 - 1955 1945 - 1949	53rd 49th - 50th	D D	Waco	McLennan
H	Reuben E. Senterfitt	93	H	1941 - 1955	47th - 53rd	D	San Saba	San Saba
H	Lesta Shackelford F	28	H	1947 - 1949	50th	D	Livingston	Polk
H	James W. Shannon F	105	H H	1955 - 1959 1947 - 1948	54th - 55th 50th	D D	Stephenville	Erath
H	Thomas Sharp F	7	H	1947 - 1948	50th	D	Beckville	Panola
H	J. Harvey Shell	70	H H	1947 - 1951 1937 - 1945	50th - 51st 45th - 48th	D D	Gregory	San Patricio
H	L. Clyde Slimp, Jr. F	48	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Decatur	Wise
H	Max C. Smith	81-2	H	1945 - 1961	49th - 56th	D	San Marcos	Hays
H	N. F. "Dick" Smith	109	H	1945 - 1949	49th - 50th	D	Jacksboro	Jack
H	Preston Smith	119	S H	1957 - 1963 1945 - 1951	55th - 57th 49th - 51st	D D	Lubbock	Lubbock
H	Charles Lacy South F	125	H	1947 - 1949	50th	D	Coleman	Coleman
H	Rudolph B. Spacek	66	H	1941 - 1955	47th - 53rd	D	Fayetteville	Fayette
H	James T. Sparks	44-1	H	1945 - 1951	49th - 51st	D	Sherman	Grayson
H	James C. Spencer	54	H H	1947 - 1949 1939 - 1940	50th 46th	D D	Athens	Henderson
H	Jerry T. Stockard F	60	H	1947 - 1953	50th - 52nd	D	Frost	Navarro
H	Cecil Storey	6	H H H	1955 - 1959 1943 - 1951 1923 - 1931	54th - 55th 48th - 51st 38th - 41st	D D D	Longview	Gregg
H	William R. Stump F	84	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 52nd	D	Georgetown	Williamson
H	Elizabeth Suiter	34	H	1943 - 1949	48th - 50th	D	Winnsboro	Wood
H	Frank G. Svadlenak	83	H	1943 - 1954	48th - 53rd	D	Thrall	Williamson
H	Frederick G. Swanson	33	H	1945 - 1949	49th - 50th	D	Tyler	Smith
H	William B. Teague F	115	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Anson	Jones
H	R. L. Templeton F	122	H	1947 - 1948	50th	D	Wellington	Collingsworth
H	M. K. Thomas	53	H	1945 - 1951	49th - 51st	D	Wills Point	Van Zandt
H	J. Blake Timmons F	123	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Amarillo	Potter
H	Bill Tippen F	116	S H	1972 - 1973 1947 - 1951	62nd 50th - 51st	D D	Abilene	Taylor
H	Surry Turner F	4	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Gilmer	Upshur
H	Wayne W. Wagonseller F	47	S H	1951 - 1955 1947 - 1951	52nd - 54th 50th - 51st	D D	Fruitland	Montague
H	Miller B. Walker F	15	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Beaumont	Jefferson
H	John L. "Red" Wallace F	101-4	H	1947 - 1949	50th	D	Fort Worth	Tarrant
H	Jesse F. Ward	20	H H	1953 - 1957 1945 - 1949	53rd - 54th 49th - 50th	D D	Rosenberg	Fort Bend
H	George W. Watson F	37	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Paris	Lamar
H	Harry Whitworth F	127	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	Smithville	Bastrop
H	Eugene C. Williams F	78-2	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 51st	D	San Antonio	Bexar
H	Sterling W. Williams	118	H	1945 - 1953	49th - 52nd	D	Snyder	Scurry
H	W.A. Williamson	78-1	H S H	1941 - 1953 1929 - 1933 1923 - 1929	47th - 52nd 41st - 42nd 38th - 40th	D D D	San Antonio	Bexar
H	Doyle Willis F	101-3	H H S H	1973 - 1997 1969 - 1971 1953 - 1963 1947 - 1953	63rd - 74th 61st 53rd - 57th 50th - 52nd	D D D D	Fort Worth	Tarrant
H	Phillip L. Willis F	52	H	1947 - 1949	50th - 51st	D	Kaufman	Kaufman
H	Paul S. Wilson F	11	H	1947 - 1951	50th - 52nd	D	San Augustine	San Augustine
H	Pat Wiseman	31	H	1945 - 1949	49th - 50th	D	Jacksonville	Cherokee
H	Bill D. Wood F	32	S H	1957 - 1961 1947 - 1957	55th - 56th 50th - 54th	D D	Tyler	Smith
H	Jim Wright F	103	H	1947 - 1949	50th	D	Weatherford	Parker
H	Herman Yezak	63	H	1945 - 1963	49th - 57th	D	Bremond	Robertson
H	Lamar A. Zivley F	95	H	1947 - 1955	50th - 53rd	D	Temple	Bell

Political party affiliation cannot be confirmed in the Texas Almanac, Texas State Directory, Texas Legislative Manual or Secretary of State election results in the LRL's collection. See also Handbook of Texas Online, "Texas Legislature", 1930-1959: "From 1930 to 1959 only one Republican was elected to the Texas legislature, and he served for only one term (1951-52) [Edward Dicker, 52nd Legislature]. No third parties were represented."

F indicates this was the first time that the member served in either a regular or called session.

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