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LRL Home - Legislators and Leaders - Political party statistics - Political affiliation, 40th Legislature

Party affiliation - 40th Legislature

Totals based on membership as of first day of the regular session, January 11, 1927

House of Representatives

Democrats in the House of Representatives[ 149 of 150 99%]
Walter P. Acker James C. Albritton Robert Bruce Alexander Preston Louis Anderson James David Avis Selby Evans Barnett Wingate Stuart Barron Jefferson Dozier Bass Samuel Edwin Bateman Walter Hartwell Beck John Logan Bird George Washington Black Robert Lee Bobbitt J. Herschel Boggs Herbert Spencer Bonham Jefferson Davis Boon Phillip B. Branch Henry Turner Brown Virgil E. Conway Bevoly Leonidas Cornwell Ernest Calvin Cox Emry Spencer Cummings Francis Aaron Dale Roy Joyner Daniel John E. Davis Thomas Arthur DeBerry Charles Culberson Denman Henry Benedict Dielmann Edwin Donald Dunlap Abel James Durham	Jesse Caldwell Duvall David John Enderby Bowd Farrar Hubert Travis Faulk James Finlay William Madden Fly Benjamin Johnson Forbes Benjamin Frank Foster Robert A. Fuchs Samuel Dillard Gates Merritt Hamilton Gibson Victor Byron Gilbert William Thomas Graves Eli Clark Gray Matthew Hilsman Hagaman James Christopher Hall Alfred E. Harding William Murdock Harman Samuel Swain Hefley Robert Elbert High Ray Wesley Holder Robert H. Holland Emery Polk Hornaday Nathaniel Green Jacks Robert Milton Johnson Harry Ralpherd Jones Hyle Appleton Justice Harold Kayton George Clark Kemble Joseph Charles Kennedy	Lee Miller Kenyon Robert Lee Kincaid Arthur Howard King Samuel Jonathan King James William Kinnear John Henry Kirby Ivers Kirkland Norman Goree Kittrell, Sr. Cornelius Land George Raiford Lipscomb Ruben Loftin John Andrew Long Jacob Jackson Loy Alexander Ewing Masterson Charles S. McCombs Joseph McGill Andrew Jackson McKean Joseph Andrew Merritt Fred Hawthorne Minor William Rogers Montgomery Harbin Hansbrow Moore Robert Emmett Morse Travis Bruce Moursund Edward Thad Murphy Alfred Edgar Nabors Carl Edmund Nicholson Joseph J. Olsen Overton Parish Melville Clyde Parrish James Pavlica	Allen Leroy Pearce Alfred P.C. Petsch William Robert Poage Adrian C. Pool Bowen Pope John Clarence Porter Robert Alfred Powell George Clark Purl John C. Ramsey John Allen Rawlins Albert Sidney Reagan John Faulkner Renfro Thomas Jefferson Renfro John Carlton Rogers Michael William Rogers Thomas David Rowell, Jr. Roscoe Conkling Runge Peter Cooper Sanders Lee Satterwhite Charles Norton Shaver Amon Robert Shearer Corry Thaddeus Sheats Benjamin Lawrence Shirley William Judson Simmons Ed R. Sinks Leon Columbus Smith Ralph Roy Smith Travis Ewing Smith William Robert Smith Rawleigh Portue Smyth	John B. Snelgrove James William Stell James William Stevenson Cecil Storey Alexander Royce Stout Jesse Wilson Sutton Alton Swain Ellis A. Taylor Claud Duval Teer Leonard E. Tillotson Henry Albert Turner Olan Rogers Van Zandt John Holland Veatch Charles Harvey Waddell Thomas Luther Walker Harvey Horatio Wallace John Forsythe Wallace S. Bert Wallace George W. Ware Heverington Eugene Wassell Henry E. Webb Howard Walling Wells Emmett Lane Whitaker Simeon Rufus Williams William Thomas Williams W. Albert Williamson Benjamin Troy Woodall Grady Woodruff Dewey Young

Republicans in the House of Representatives[ 1 of 150 1%]
Reno Andrew Eickenroht

Senate

Democrats in the Senate[ 30 of 31 97%]
John Heywood Bailey Benjamin Franklin Berkeley William Harrison Bledsoe Richard Saffarrans Bowers I.D. Fairchild Charles Richard Floyd	Julian Preston Greer James William Hall Carl Clara Hardin Thomas Jefferson Holbrook Henry LaFayette Lewis Thomas Bell Love	William Doddridge McFarlane Eugene Miller Joseph M. Moore Margie E. Neal Archie Parr Tomas Glover Pollard	Lloyd Edwin Price John William Reid Gus Russek Jesse Richard Smith Robert Alda Stuart Henry Franklin Triplett	Pierce Butler Ward Ed Westbrook Alvin Jacob Wirtz Edgar Earnest Witt Ashley Elijah Wood Walter Calisto Woodward

Republicans in the Senate[ 1 of 31 3%]
Julius Real

Districts represented by more than one person
H District 13	John C. Ramsey	Democrat	01/11/1927 - 03/31/1927
H District 13	Andrew Johnson Lewis	Unknown	05/16/1927 - 01/08/1929	Not included in the statistics above.
H District 19-1	Norman Goree Kittrell, Sr.	Democrat	01/11/1927 - 01/24/1927
H District 19-1	Mike Hogg	Democrat	02/23/1927 - 01/08/1929	Not included in the statistics above.
H District 41	Francis Aaron Dale	Democrat	01/11/1927 - 02/08/1927
H District 41	William Fount Keeton	Democrat	03/08/1927 - 01/08/1929	Not included in the statistics above.
H District 77	Abel James Durham	Democrat	01/11/1927 - 03/04/1927
H District 77	Andrew Percy Johnson	Democrat	05/09/1927 - 01/08/1929	Not included in the statistics above.
H District 126	Harbin Hansbrow Moore	Democrat	01/11/1927 - 02/08/1927
H District 126	Alexander Brice	Democrat	03/09/1927 - 01/08/1929	Not included in the statistics above.