The 45th Texas Legislature met from January 12, 1937 to May 22, 1937 and in two special sessions, both in 1937, each lasting 30 days.

Sessions

Regular Session: January 12, 1937 – May 22, 1937

1st Called Session: May 27, 1937 – June 25, 1937

2nd Called Session: September 27, 1937 – October 26, 1937

Senate

Affiliation		Members	Note
	Democratic Party Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...	31
Total		31

House

Affiliation		Members	Note
	Democratic Party Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...	150
Total		150

Senate

• Lieutenant Governor: Walter Frank Woodul
  Walter Frank Woodul
  Walter Frank Woodul was a Texas politician who was an early proponent of a state highway system. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Texas from 1935 to 1939, under Governor James V. Allred.-External links:...
  
   (D)
• Presidents Pro Tempore: Regular Session Will D. Pace (D)
  1st Called Session – Olan R. Van Zandt (D)
  2nd Called Session – Allan Shivers (D)

Senate

Dist. 1

• E. Harold Beck (D), Texarkana
  Texarkana, Texas
  Texarkana is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States. It effectively functions as one half of a city which crosses a state line — the other half, the city of Texarkana, Arkansas, lies on the other side of State Line Avenue...
  
  

Dist. 2

• Joe Hill (D), Henderson
  Henderson, Texas
  Henderson is a city in Rusk County, Texas, United States. The population was 11,273 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Rusk County...
  
  

Dist. 3

• John S. Redditt (D), Lufkin
  Lufkin, Texas
  Lufkin is a city in Angelina County, Texas, United States. Founded in 1882, the population was 35,067 in 2010. It is the county seat of Angelina County, and is situated in Deep East Texas.-History:...
  
  

Dist. 4

• Allan Shivers
  Allan Shivers
  Robert Allan Shivers was a Texas politician who led the conservative faction of the Texas Democratic Party during the turbulent 1940s and 1950s...
  
   (D), Port Arthur
  Port Arthur, Texas
  -Demographics:As of the 2000 census, there were 57,755 people, 21,839 households, and 14,675 families residing in the city. The population density was 696.5 people per square mile . There were 24,713 housing units at an average density of 298.0 per square mile...
  
  

Dist. 5

• Gordon Burns (D), Huntsville
  Huntsville, Texas
  Huntsville is a city in and the county seat of Walker County, Texas, United States. The population was 35,508 at the 2010 census. It is the center of the Huntsville micropolitan area....
  
  

Dist. 6

• Clay Cotten (D), Palestine
  Palestine, Texas
  Palestine is a city in Anderson County, Texas, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 17,598, and 18,458 in the 2009 estimate. It is the county seat of Anderson County and is situated in East Texas...
  
  

Dist. 7

• Will D. Pace (D), Tyler
  Tyler, Texas
  Tyler is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, in the United States. It takes its name from President John Tyler . The city had a population of 109,000 in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau...
  
  

Dist. 8

• A. M. Aiken, Jr. (D), Paris
  Paris, Texas
  Paris, Texas is a city located northeast of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex in Lamar County, Texas, in the United States. It is situated in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods. Physiographically, these regions are part of the West Gulf Coastal Plain. In 1900, 9,358 people lived...
  
  

Dist. 9

• Olin Van Zandt (D), Tioga
  Tioga, Texas
  Tioga is a town in Grayson County, Texas, United States. The population was 754 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Sherman–Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area....
  
  

Dist. 10

• Claude Isbell (D), Rockwall
  Rockwall, Texas
  Rockwall is a city in Rockwall County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Dallas. It is part of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The population was 37,490 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Rockwall County. Rockwall County is the second wealthiest county in the state of Texas in terms...
  
  

Dist. 11

• Claud Westerfield (D), Dallas
  Dallas, Texas
  Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
  
  

Dist. 12

• Vernon Lemmons (D), Waxahachie
  Waxahachie, Texas
  Waxahachie is a city in Ellis County, Texas, United States, and a southern suburb of Dallas. The population was 21,426 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Ellis County....
  
  

Dist. 13

• Doss Hardin (D), Waco
  Waco, Texas
  Waco is a city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas. Situated along the Brazos River and on the I-35 corridor, halfway between Dallas and Austin, it is the economic, cultural, and academic center of the 'Heart of Texas' region....
  
  

Dist. 14

• Albert Stone (D), Brenham
  Brenham, Texas
  Brenham is a city in east-central Texas in Washington County, Texas, United States, with a population of 16,147 according to the 2009 census. It is the county seat of Washington County...
  
  

Dist. 15

• Louis Sulak (D), La Grange
  La Grange, Texas
  La Grange is a city in Fayette County, Texas, near the Colorado River. The population was 4,478 at the 2000 census. The 2006 estimated population was 4,645. But a 2010 census estimated that the city had a population of 4,923...
  
  

Dist. 16

• Weaver Moore (D), Houston
  Houston, Texas
  Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
  
  

Dist. 17

• T. J. Holbrook (D), Galveston
  Galveston, Texas
  Galveston is a coastal city located on Galveston Island in the U.S. state of Texas. , the city had a total population of 47,743 within an area of...
  
  

Dist. 18

• Morris Roberts (D), Pettus
  Pettus, Texas
  Pettus is a census-designated place in Bee County, Texas, United States. The population was 608 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Pettus is located at ....
  
  

Dist. 19

• Rudolph A. Weinert
  Rudolph A. Weinert
  Rudolph A. Weinert was a politician from Seguin, Texas, who served in the Texas Senate for 27 years.-Early life and family:Rudolph A. Weinert was born December 19, 1894. Weinert was married to Johnnie Ponton from 1905 until her death in 1973. They had one daughter.-Career: Weinert was a...
  
   (D), Seguin
  Seguin, Texas
  Seguin is a city in Guadalupe County, Texas, in the United States. It is part of the San Antonio-New Braunfels Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 22,011; the July 1, 2009 Census estimate, however, showed the population had increased to 26,842...
  
  

Dist. 20

• Houghton Brownlee (D), Austin
  Austin, Texas
  Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
  
  

Dist. 21

• James Manley Head (D), Stephenville
  Stephenville, Texas
  Stephenville is a city in and the county seat of Erath County, Texas, United States. The population was 14,921 at the 2000 census. Founded in 1856, it is home to Tarleton State University. Stephenville is among several communities that calls itself the "Cowboy Capital of the...
  
  

Dist. 22

• H. Grady Woodruff (D), Decatur
  Decatur, Texas
  Decatur is a city located in Wise County, Texas, United States. This city was named after Stephen Decatur, Jr. The population was 5,201 at the 2000 census. A July 1, 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimate placed the population at 6,432. It is the county seat of Wise County...
  
  

Dist. 23

• Ben Oneal (D), Wichita Falls
  Wichita Falls, Texas
  Wichita Falls is a city in and the county seat of Wichita County, Texas, United States, United States. Wichita Falls is the principal city of the Wichita Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Archer, Clay and Wichita counties. According to the U.S. Census estimate of 2010,...
  
  

Dist. 24

• Wilbourne Collie (D), Eastland
  Eastland, Texas
  Eastland is a city in Eastland County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,769 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Eastland County.During the 1920s, Eastland, like nearby Cisco, Ranger, and Desdemona, were petroleum boomtowns....
  
  

Dist. 25

• Ephraim Davis (D), Brownwood
  Brownwood, Texas
  Brownwood is a city in and the county seat of Brown County, Texas, United States. The population was 18,813 at the 2000 census.-History:The original site of the Brown County seat of Brownwood was on the east of Pecan Bayou. A dispute arose over land and water rights, and the settlers were forced...
  
  

Dist. 26

• J. Franklin Spears (D), San Antonio
  San Antonio, Texas
  San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...
  
  

Dist. 27

• Jim Neal (D), Mirando City
  Mirando City, Texas
  Mirando City is a census-designated place in Webb County, Texas, United States. The population was 493 at the 2000 census. The town gets its name from Nicolás Mirando, a Spanish land grantee. The population of Mirando City was highest in 1929, at an estimated 1500...
  
  

Dist. 28

• Frank H. Rawlings (D), Fort Worth
  Fort Worth, Texas
  Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...
  
  

Dist. 29

• Henry L. Winfield (D), Fort Stockton
  Fort Stockton, Texas
  Fort Stockton is a city in Pecos County, Texas, United States. The population was 7,846 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Pecos County.-Geography:Fort Stockton is located at ....
  
  

Dist. 30

• G. Hobert Nelson (D), Lubbock
  Lubbock, Texas
  Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States. The city is located in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado, and the home of Texas Tech University and Lubbock Christian University...
  
  

Dist. 31

• C.C. Small (D), Amarillo
  Amarillo, Texas
  Amarillo is the 14th-largest city, by population, in the state of Texas, the largest in the Texas Panhandle, and the seat of Potter County. A portion of the city extends into Randall County. The population was 190,695 at the 2010 census...
  
  

House

The House was composed of 150 Democrats.

House members included future Governor Coke R. Stevenson

Coke R. Stevenson

Coke Robert Stevenson was the 35th Governor of Texas from 1941 to 1947. He was the only 20th century Texan politician to serve as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, as Lieutenant Governor, and then as governor...

 and future State Treasurer Jesse James

Jesse James (Texas Treasurer)

Jesse James was the longest serving Texas State Treasurer, serving in that post from 1941 until his death in 1977.-Early years:James was born near Thorndale, Texas in Milam County...

.

Sources

• Legislative Reference Library of Texas