The 60th Texas Legislature

Texas Legislature

The Legislature of the state of Texas is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Texas. The legislature is a bicameral body composed of a 31-member Senate and a 150-member House of Representatives. The Legislature meets at the Capitol in Austin...

met from January 10, 1967 to May 29, 1967, and again in a special called session from June 4, 1968 to July 3, 1968. All members present during this session were elected in the 1966 general elections. The Democrats retained control of the Legislature

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...	29
	Republican Party Republican Party (United States) The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...	2
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...	143
	Republican Party Republican Party (United States) The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...	7
Total		150

Senate

• Lieutenant Governor
  Lieutenant Governor of Texas
  The Lieutenant Governor of Texas is the second-highest executive office in the government of Texas, a state in the U.S. It is the second most powerful post in Texas government because its occupant controls the work of the Texas Senate and controls the budgeting process as a leader of the...
  
  : Preston Smith (D)
• President Pro Tempore (regular session): William N. Patman (D)
• President Pro Tempore (called session): James S. Bates (D)

Senate

Dist. 1

• A.M. Aikin, Jr. (D), Paris

Dist. 2

• Jack Strong (D), Longview

Dist. 3

• Charlie Wilson (D), Lufkin

Dist. 4

• D. Roy Harrington (D), Port Arthur

Dist. 5

• William T. "Bill" Moore
  William T. Moore (Texas politician)
  William Tyler Moore, Sr., known as W. T. 'Bill' Moore , was an attorney and businessman in Bryan, Texas, who was a conservative Democratic member of the Texas State Senate from District 5 from 1967 until 1981.Moore originally represented District 14 from 1949 to 1953 and then revised District 11...
  
   (D), Bryan

Dist. 6

• Criss Cole (D), Houston

Dist. 7

• Chet Brooks
  Chet Brooks
  Chet Brooks is a former safety who played 3 seasons for the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League. He started in Super Bowl XXIV. During his college years, he coined the name "Wrecking Crew" for the Texas A&M University football team defense.-References:...
  
   (D), Pasadena

Dist. 8

• O.H. "Ike" Harris
  O.H. "Ike" Harris
  O. H. "Ike" Harris is an attorney and lobbyist in Austin, Texas, who served from 1963 to 1965 and 1967 to 1995 as a Republican member from Dallas County in both houses of the Texas State Legislature. He was elected to his single term as a state representative in 1962. His Senate tenure in District...
  
   (R), Dallas

Dist. 9

• Ralph Hall
  Ralph Hall
  Ralph Moody Hall is a United States Representative from . First elected in 1980, Hall is the chairman of the Science Committee and a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee...
  
   (D), Rockwall

Dist. 10

• Don Kennard (D), Fort Worth

Dist. 11

• Barbara Jordan
  Barbara Jordan
  Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician who was both a product and a leader, of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives...
  
   (D), Houston

Dist. 12

• J.P. Word (D), Meridian

Dist. 13

• Murray Watson, Jr. (D), Waco

Dist. 14

• Charles F. Herring (D), Austin

Dist. 15

• Henry Grover
  Henry Grover
  Henry Cushing "Hank" Grover , was a conservative politician from the U.S. state of Texas best known for his relatively narrow defeat as the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1972. Grover was born in Corpus Christi. He died in Houston of Alzheimer's disease.Grover lived as a youth in San Antonio...
  
   (R), Houston

Dist. 16

• Jim Wade (D), Dallas

Dist. 17

• A.R. "Babe" Schwartz (D), Galveston

Dist. 18

• W.N. "Bill" Patman
  William Neff Patman
  William Neff "Bill" Patman , was an American politician who served from 1981 to 1985 as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas. He was the son of John William Wright Patman, the long-time U.S...
  
   (D), Ganado

Dist. 19

• V.E. "Red" Berry (D), San Antonio

Dist. 20

• Bruce Reagan (D), Corpus Christi

Dist. 21

• Wayne Connally
  Wayne Connally
  Wayne Wright Connally was a Texas rancher, a Democratic member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature, and a brother of both former Governor and United States Treasury Secretary John Bowden Connally, Jr., and Merrill Lee Connally, Sr., an actor and a former county judge.-Early years,...
  
   (D), Floresville

Dist. 22

• Tom Creighton (D), Mineral Wells

Dist. 23

• Oscar Mauzy (D), Dallas

Dist. 24

• David Ratliff (D), Stamford

Dist. 25

• Dorsey Hardeman (D), San Angelo

Dist. 26

• Joe J. Bernal (D), San Antonio

Dist. 27

• James Bates (D), Edinburg

Dist. 28

• H.J. "Doc" Blanchard (D), Lubbock

Dist. 29

• Joe Christie (D), El Paso

Dist. 30

• Jack Hightower (D), Vernon

Dist. 31

• Grady Hazlewood
  Grady Hazlewood
  Grady Hazlewood was a Democratic member of the Texas State Senate from 1941 to 1971, having represented the Amarillo-based District 31 in the Panhandle...
  
   (D), Canyon