The building that housed the House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas in Columbia (shown c. 1897)
Overview
Legislative body
Congress of the Republic of Texas
Jurisdiction
Republic of Texas
Meeting place
Columbia and Houston
Term
October 3, 1836 (1836-10-03) – June 13, 1837 (1837-06-13)
House of Representatives
Members
31 Representatives
House Speaker
Ira Ingram (1st session)[1] Branch T. Archer (2nd session)
Senate
Members
14 Senators
Senate President
Mirabeau Lamar
Senate President pro tem.
Richard Ellis (1st session)[2] Jesse Grimes (2nd session)[3]
Sessions
1st
October 3, 1836 (1836-10-03) – December 22, 1836 (1836-12-22)
2nd
May 1, 1837 (1837-05-01) – June 13, 1837 (1837-06-13)
The First Congress of the Republic of Texas, consisting of the Senate of the Republic of Texas and House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas, met in Columbia at two separate buildings (one for each chamber) and then in Houston at the present-day site of The Rice from October 3, 1836, to June 13, 1837, during the first year of Sam Houston's presidency.
All members of Congress were officially non-partisan.[4] According to the Constitution of the Republic of Texas of 1836, each member of the House of Representatives was elected for a term of one year.[5] Each county was guaranteed at least one representative.[6]
Each Senator was elected for a three-year term to represent a district that each had a nearly equal portion of the nation's population. Each district could have no more than one Senator.
^Raines, C. W. (1901). Year Book for Texas. Austin, Texas: Gammel Book Company. pp. 59–60. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
^"Officers of the Senate". Telegraph and Texas Register. Vol. 1, no. 45 (1 ed.). December 9, 1836. p. 2. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
^McDonald Spaw, Patsy (1990). The Texas Senate: Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861, Volume 1. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. p. 24. ISBN 0890964424.
^Erath, Lucy A. (October 1923). Barker, Eugene C.; Bolton, Herbert E. (eds.). "Memoirs of George Bernard Erath IV". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 27 (2). Texas State Historical Association: 140. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
^May, Janice C. (1996). The Texas State Constitution: A Reference Guide. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 4. ISBN 0313266379.
^Steen, Ralph W. (June 12, 2010). "Congress of the Republic of Texas". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
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