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LRL Home - Legislators and Leaders - Political party statistics - Political affiliation, 58th Legislature

Party affiliation - 58th Legislature

Totals based on membership as of first day of the regular session, January 8, 1963

House of Representatives

Democrats in the House of Representatives[ 143 of 150 95%]
James Collier Adams John C. Alaniz John Allen Roy Wade Arledge Ben Atwell Myra Davis Banfield Ben Barnes Bob Bass Tom Bass Vernon Beckham V.E. 'Red' Berry Otha Birkner John E. Blaine Stanley Elo Boysen Ronald W. Bridges Chet Brooks Donald Maurice Brown Raleigh Holden Brown Jerry Butler Pat Cain Neil Caldwell Amando F. Canales Joe Barnett Cannon Ed J. Carpenter Max Dan Carriker Don Cavness Joseph Norwin Chapman Dick Cherry Bill Clayton	James D. Cole Sam Forse Collins George Howell Cook R.H. 'Dick' Cory James Madison Cotten William U. Coughran George Malcolm Cowden Nelson Cowles Jack Walton Crain David Crews Eligio de la Garza Maurice Doke Lee Duggan William Taylor Dungan Robert C. Eckhardt Elder McKenzie Edwards Rudolph S. Esquivel Robert Lewis Fairchild Dave Finney Henry Arnold Fletcher Paul Whitfield Floyd Gene Fondren Wilson Foreman Donald Edmund Garrison Wayne B. Gibbens Donald C. Gladden Allen Dorrell Glenn Howard Lemuel Green Henry Grover	Lloyd Myron Guffey David Graves Haines A.C. Hallmark Forrest A. Harding Paul Byrne Haring Ed J. Harris Clyde Haynes, Jr. W.S. 'Bill' Heatly Don Warren Hefton Gene Hendryx George T. Hinson Bill Hollowell Robert Higgins Hughes Maud Isaacks Alonzo W. Jamison Benjamin Edward Jarvis Jake Johnson Robert E. Johnson Rufus Underwood Kilpatrick James Edward Klager Walter Lee Knapp Homer Louis Koliba Glenn Kothmann Emmett Lack James Loy Lattimore Honore Ligarde Dudley R. Mann Jim Markgraf Travis Victor McClinton	Felix McDonald Guy Vernon McDonald Malcolm McGregor Grainger Walter McIlhany Jack McLaughlin Ray Everett McNutt Wallace Harland Miller Hudson Moyer Menton J. Murray Gus F. Mutscher Herbert Otto Niemeyer James E. Nugent Carl Parker Hugh Parmer Bill J. Parsley Cecil Wilton Pearcy Travis A. Peeler Randy Pendleton Olen Ray Petty Maurice S. Pipkin Rayford Price W. Reed Quilliam, Jr. Bill Rapp George H. Richards George 'Skeet' Richardson Jack Francis Ritter Ronald E. Roberts Lindsey Rodriguez Renal B. Rosson	William Thomas Satterwhite Milton Joe Schiller Clarence James Segrest Tommy Shannon Donald Kenneth Shipley Herbert Edward Shutt J.M. 'Red' Simpson Richard C. Slack James L. Slider Stanford Stanley Smith Will L. Smith Vernon Stewart Fritz Thompson Roger H. Thurmond, Jr. Terry Townsend John Traeger Byron M. Tunnell William Newton Walker J.E. Ward J.D. 'Jimmie' Weldon Halen Gill Wells Willis Whatley Charles Alexander Wheeler Joseph Charles Whitfield Leroy J. Wieting Charles Wilson Henry Jackson Woods

Republicans in the House of Representatives[ 7 of 150 5%]
Maurice Benton Ball William S. Davis	O.H. 'Ike' Harris Horace Ben Houston	George Pettit Macatee Richard Lee Morgan	Henry Stollenwerck

Senate

Democrats in the Senate[ 31 of 31 100%]
A.M. Aikin, Jr. Jim Bates H.J. 'Doc' Blanchard Galloway Calhoun Criss Cole Neveille Colson Tom Creighton	Louis M. Crump Martin Dies, Jr. Ralph Hall Dorsey B. Hardeman D. Roy Harrington Grady Hazlewood Charles Herring	Abraham Kazen Don Kennard Culp Krueger George Clarence Moffett William T. 'Bill' Moore Frank Owen III George Parkhouse	William N. 'Bill' Patman David Ratliff Bruce Anderson Reagan Walter Hoppe Richter Andrew Jacob Rogers A.R. 'Babe' Schwartz Franklin Scott Spears	Jack Strong Murray Watson, Jr. J.P. Word

Districts represented by more than one person
H District 36-4	James Loy Lattimore	Democrat	01/08/1963 - 03/07/1963
H District 36-4	Charles 'Chuck' Scoggins	Republican	04/25/1963 - 01/12/1965	Not included in the statistics above.
H District 51-6	Robert E. Johnson	Democrat	01/08/1963 - 07/23/1963
H District 51-6	James Roscoe Sampsell	Republican	11/16/1963 - 01/12/1965	Not included in the statistics above.
H District 51-7	Robert Higgins Hughes	Democrat	01/08/1963 - 08/31/1963
H District 51-7	Olwyn Hughes Brown	Republican	11/16/1963 - 01/12/1965	Not included in the statistics above.
H District 55-4	Jack Francis Ritter	Democrat	01/08/1963 - 10/02/1963
H District 55-4	Bob Armstrong	Democrat	11/22/1963 - 01/12/1965	Not included in the statistics above.