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Party affiliation - 12th Legislature

  Totals based on membership as of first day of the regular session, February 8, 1870

House of Representatives
Democrats in the House of Representatives[ 8 of 38 21%]
Edwin Pinckney Becton
Thomas Chambers
 A.D. Elam
H.C. Ellis
 Matthew Alexander Gaston
James R. McKee
 William Pinckney McLean
Simeon S. Weaver
 
Republicans in the House of Representatives[ 2 of 38 5%]
John Overton Austin
 Robert Crudup
 
Other parties in the House of Representatives[ 28 of 38 74%]
Charles L. Abbott
Henry R. Allen
Richard Allen
James P. Butler
Leroy Washington Cooper
J. Goldsteen Dupree
 Francis Gray Franks
Charles W. Gardiner
C. Duval Harn
J.W. Johnson
Mitchell Kendall
J.M. Manning
 James F. McKee
David Medlock
Henry Moore
C.D. Morris
John M. Morrison
Sheppard Mullens
 William C. Pierson
Benjamin Rush Plumly
W.D. Robinson
William Schlottmann
William Henry Sinclair
George H. Slaughter
 Charles J. Stockbridge
Richard Williams
James Emerson Hawkins
R.L. Moore
Senate
Democrats in the Senate[ 6 of 22 27%]
Marmion Henry Bowers
David Washington Cole
 Ebenezer Lafayette Dohoney
Henry Latimer
 William H. Pyle
George Ross Shannon
 
 
Other parties in the Senate[ 16 of 22 73%]
E.L. Alford
Thomas H. Baker
Donald Campbell
Abner K. Foster
 A.J. Fountain
Matthew Gaines
Phidello William Hall
Theodore Hertzberg
 John S. Mills
William Henry Parsons
Bolivar Jackson Pridgen
Mijamin Priest
 Henry Rawson
George T. Ruby
William A. Saylor
Edward Thomas Broughton, Jr.

Districts represented by more than one person
H District 1 Thomas Chambers Democrat 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 1 J.G. Smyth Democrat 02/10/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 1 W.T. Simmons Unknown 02/16/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 2 Edward Livingston Robb Democrat 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 2 Sterling L. Smith Democrat 02/09/1870 - 02/23/1870   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 2 James Addison Abney Unknown 02/10/1870 - 08/15/1870   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 2 William H. Bonner, Jr. Radical Republican 05/02/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 2 John Polley Democrat 10/31/1871 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 3 A.D. Elam Democrat 11/30/1869 - 02/14/1870  
H District 3 Leroy Washington Cooper Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 08/15/1870  
H District 3 Matthew Alexander Gaston Democrat 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 3 James Russell Burnett Republican 02/15/1870 - 01/11/1871   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 3 A.D. Elam Democrat 01/10/1871 - 04/17/1871   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 3 John English Democrat 01/11/1871 - 04/17/1871   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 3 Frank Rainey Democrat 10/31/1871 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 3 A.D. Elam Democrat 10/31/1871 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 4 John M. Morrison Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 4 J.M. Manning Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 4 Winfield Brown Stirman Democrat 02/11/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 5 Benjamin Burton Lacy Democrat 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 5 Adison D. Tinsley Radical Republican 02/16/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 5 Augustus James Booty Democrat 02/21/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 6 Isaiah Nicholas Browning Radical Republican Elected but never sworn   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 6 William C. Pierson Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 6 George H. Slaughter Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 6 McDonald Lorance Republican 01/10/1871 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 7 Mitchell Kendall Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 7 Henry Moore Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 8 J.W. Johnson Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 8 C.D. Morris Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 8 W.D. Robinson Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 9 R.L. Moore Unknown 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 9 William Pinckney McLean Democrat 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 9 John Payne Hill Unknown 02/12/1870 - 05/09/1870   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 9 J.R. Lyons Unknown 05/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 10 Edwin Pinckney Becton Democrat 02/08/1870 - 05/31/1871  
H District 10 H.C. Ellis Democrat 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 10 Simeon S. Weaver Democrat 02/08/1870 - 07/03/1871  
H District 10 William Clayton Jones Unknown 10/31/1871 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 10 John Putnam Democrat 10/31/1871 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 11 John Overton Austin Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 11 James R. McKee Democrat 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 11 Micajah L. Armstrong Republican 02/10/1870 - 02/19/1870   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 11 Henry Harrison Van Noy Radical Republican 04/29/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 12 William Henry Sinclair Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 12 Benjamin Rush Plumly Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 12 William Prissick Radical Republican 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 13 Charles L. Abbott Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 13 Francis Gray Franks Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 13 William Sheriff Radical Republican 02/12/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 14 Henry R. Allen Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 14 Richard Allen Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 14 J. Goldsteen Dupree Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 15 James P. Butler Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 15 C. Duval Harn Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 15 Richard Williams Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 16 William Schlottmann Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 16 Charles J. Stockbridge Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 17 Charles W. Gardiner Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 17 George Tyler Haswell Radical Republican 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 17 John Mitchell Radical Republican 05/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 18 D.W. Burley Radical Republican 02/10/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 18 Giles Cotton Radical Republican 02/10/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 18 Samuel J. Adams Democrat 02/12/1870 - 06/06/1870   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 18 John W. Robertson Democrat 01/10/1871 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 19 Robert Crudup Republican 02/08/1870 - 07/13/1870  
H District 19 Sheppard Mullens Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 08/06/1871  
H District 19 David Medlock Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 19 George Patten Republican 01/20/1871 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 20 James Emerson Hawkins Unknown 01/10/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 20 Joseph 'Jo' Abbott Democrat 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 20 Harvey W. Young Radical Republican 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 21 Bereman S. Shelburne Democrat 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 21 John W. Lane Democrat 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 21 Archibald Franklin Leonard Democrat 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 22 James Reid Cole Democrat 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 22 M.A. Elliott Unknown 02/09/1870 - 02/21/1870   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 22 Alex C. Warren Unknown 02/12/1870 - 05/21/1870   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 22 James George Unknown 05/21/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 22 John Berryhill Self Unknown 01/10/1871 - 02/21/1870   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 23 William Edgar Hughes Democrat 02/09/1870 - 03/01/1871   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 23 Thomas E. Ross Democrat 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 23 John Calvin Weaver Democrat 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 23 Absolom Bobo Gant Democrat 10/31/1871 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 24 L.B. Camp Radical Republican 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 24 Frederick Edward Grothaus Radical Republican 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 24 Jabez B. York Democrat 02/10/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 25 William T. Wilkinson Radical Republican 02/09/1870 - 05/24/1870   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 25 Benjamin Franklin Williams Radical Republican 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 25 Henry Clay Youngkin Radical Republican 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 25 Henry Shoemaker Republican 01/10/1871 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 26 Jeremiah J. Hamilton Radical Republican 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 26 Julius Schuetze Radical Republican 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 26 Robert Zapp Radical Republican 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 27 James F. McKee Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/14/1873  
H District 27 W.W. Davis Radical Republican 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 27 Anderson J. Dorris Radical Republican 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 28 Judson Cicero Jenkins Democrat 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 28 John W. Posey Democrat 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 28 Ferg Kyle Democrat 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 28 John H. Miller Democrat 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 29 Andrew McClure Cox Radical Republican 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 29 Frederick Tegener Radical Republican 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 29 Adolph Zoeller Radical Republican 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 29 William J. Locke Radical Republican 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 30 Ira Hobart Evans Republican 02/09/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 30 Nelson Plato Democrat 02/10/1870 - 02/14/1870   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 30 Ferdinand Schlickum Radical Republican 02/14/1870 - 02/14/1870   Not included in the statistics above.
H District 30 George Spencer Radical Republican 02/22/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 2 Amos Clark Democrat 02/09/1870 - 02/18/1871   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 2 William Swift Democrat 10/06/1871 - 01/13/1874   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 3 Mijamin Priest Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/10/1871  
S District 3 James Eldrage Dillard Democrat 01/10/1871 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 19 Andrew Jackson Evans Republican 02/10/1870 - 02/16/1870   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 19 S.W. Ford Radical Republican 02/16/1870 - 01/13/1874   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 25 Abner K. Foster Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 03/09/1870  
S District 25 Robert Peter Tendick Radical Republican 01/10/1871 - 01/13/1874   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 26 E.L. Alford Radical Republican 02/08/1870 - 01/17/1871  
S District 26 Reinhard Hillebrand Radical Republican 01/17/1871 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.

Members not listed above
S District 6 James Postell Douglas Democrat 02/10/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 1 Edward Bradford Pickett Democrat 02/21/1870 - 01/13/1874   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 13 John G. Bell Radical Republican 02/18/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 5 David Webster Flanagan Radical Republican 02/10/1870 - 01/13/1874   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 4 Elisha Pettit Radical Republican 04/26/1870 - 01/14/1873   Not included in the statistics above.
S District 21 Samuel Evans Unaffiliated 02/10/1870 - 01/13/1874   Not included in the statistics above.