Twenty-first Texas Legislature
The Twenty-first Texas Legislature met from January 8 to April 6, 1889 in regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and a portion of the members of the Senate were elected in the 1888 General Election.
Sessions
House of Representatives
Officers
Senate
- Lieutenant Governor: Thomas Benton Wheeler, Democrat
- President pro tempore:
- * Henry D. McDonald, Democrat, Regular session
- * William H. Burges, Democrat, ad interim
House of Representatives
- Speaker of the House: Frank P. Alexander, Democrat
Members
Senate
Members of the Texas Senate for the Twenty-first Texas Legislature:- Leonard Anderson Abercrombie, Democrat
- William T. Armistead, Democrat
- Edwin Augustus Atlee, Democrat
- William H. Burges, Democrat
- Martin McNulty Crane, Democrat
- John Walter Cranford, Democrat
- George Washington Glasscock, Jr., Democrat
- James J. Jarvis, Democrat
- William C. "Cone" Johnson, Democrat
- Jonathan Lane, Democrat
- Ernst Gustav Maetze, Democrat
- Henry D. McDonald, Democrat
- George W. Tyler, Democrat
House of Representatives
| District | Representative | City | County | Party | Took Office |
| 1 | Jerome Swinford | Orange | Orange | Democrat | January 8, 1889 |
| 2 | Travis Cochran | Colita | Polk | Democrat | January 8, 1889 |
| 3 | Henry Ralph | Lewis Ferry | Jasper | Democrat | January 8, 1889 |
| 4 | James Crossland | Douglass | Nacogdoches | Democrat | January 8, 1889 |
| 5 | John Childers | San Augustine | San Augustine | Democrat | January 8, 1889 |
| 6 | Robert Teague Milner | Henderson | Rusk | Democrat | January 11, 1887 |
| 7 | J. Ras Jones | Pinehill | Panola | Democrat | January 13, 1885 |
| 8 | George Alexander Newton | Mount Selman | Cherokee | Democrat | January 11, 1887 |
| 9 | Joseph Johnson | Bethel | Anderson | Democrat | 1889 |
| 10 | Joseph B. Bishop | Athens | Henderson | Democrat | 1889 |
| 11 | Abram Martin | Pittsburg | Camp | Democrat | 1889 |
| 12 | Benjamin Selman | Tyler | Smith | Democrat | 1889 |
| 13 | William Murchison | Auga | Houston | Democrat | 1889 |
| 14 | Alexander Pope | Marshall | Harrison | Democrat | 1887 |
| 15 | Louis P. Wilson | Marshall | Harrison | Democrat | 1889 |
| 16 | Lucius Whatley | Atlanta | Cass | Democrat | 1887 |
| 17 | James Carwile | Atlanta | Cass | Democrat | 1889 |
| 17 | Blair McGee | New Boston | Bowie | Democrat | 1889 |
| 18 | Albert S. Bailey | Detroit | Red River | Democrat | 1889 |
| 19 | William Johnson | Mount Pleasant | Titus | Democrat | 1889 |
| 20 | M. J. Hathaway | Paris | Lamar | Democrat | 1889 |
| 21 | William Hood | Savoy | Fannin | Democrat | 1889 |
| 22 | Thomas Hayes | Paris | Lamar | Democrat | 1889 |
| 23 | George Jefferson Woodruff | Racetrack | Delta | Democrat | 1889 |
| 24 | John Melson | Pickton | Hopkins | Democrat | 1887 |
| 25 | Frank P. Alexander | Greenville | Hunt | Democrat | 1885 |
| 26 | Thomas Towles | Canton | Van Zandt | Democrat | 1889 |
| 27 | John Tolbert | Howe | Grayson | Democrat | 1887 |
| 27 | Thomas J. Brown | Sherman | Grayson | Democrat | 1889 |
| 28 | Robert D. Allison | McKinney | Collin | Democrat | 1889 |
| 29 | J. W. Jagoe | Denton | Denton | Democrat | 1889 |
| 30 | James W. Campbell | Gainesville | Cooke | Democrat | 1889 |
| 31 | Jesse Murrell | Coesfield | Cooke | Democrat | 1889 |
| 32 | Alvin Clark Owsley | Denton | Denton | Democrat | 1889 |
| 33 | Jesse Strong | Dallas | Dallas | Democrat | 1887 |
| 33 | James Rowland | Richardson | Dallas | Democrat | 1889 |
| 34 | Isaac Parker | Birdville | Tarrant | Democrat | 1889 |
| 35 | James Crayton | Fate | Rockwall | Democrat | 1889 |
| 36 | Andrew Brown | Alvarado | Johnson | Democrat | 1889 |
| 37 | William Wood | Palmer | Ellis | Democrat | 1887 |
| 38 | James M. C. Wilson | Whitney | Hill | Democrat | 1889 |
| 39 | Samuel Frost | Corsicana | Navarro | Democrat | 1889 |
| 40 | William McGaughey | Granbury | Hood | Democrat | 1885 |
| 40 | Jesse Jenkins | Meridian | Bosque | Democrat | 1889 |
| 41 | John Hudson | Marmaduke | Wise | Democrat | 1889 |
| 42 | Charles Ulrich Connellee | Eastland | Eastland | Democrat | 1889 |
| 43 | Alfred Tolar | Abilene | Taylor | Democrat | 1889 |
| 44 | R. Lankford | Bowie | Montague | Democrat | 1889 |
| 45 | George Pickett | Decatur | Wise | Democrat | 1889 |
| 46 | Albert Stevenson | Weatherford | Parker | Democrat | 1889 |
| 47 | James Dillard | Kaufman | Kaufman | Democrat | 1889 |
| 48 | Alexander Asberry | Calvert | Robertson | Republican | 1889 |
| 49 | William Cobb | Rogers Prairie | Leon | Democrat | 1889 |
| 50 | Elias Mayes | Bryan | Brazos | Republican | 1889 |
| 51 | Henry L. Lewis | Hearne | Robertson | Democrat | 1889 |
| 52 | William Campbell | Anderson | Grimes | Democrat | 1889 |
| 53 | J. Wesson Parker | Richmond | Fort Bend | Democrat | 1887 |
| 54 | James A. Breeding | Houston | Harris | Democrat | 1889 |
| 54 | William Dawson | Trinity | Trinity | Democrat | 1889 |
| 54 | William McComb | Montgomery | Montgomery | Democrat | 1889 |
| 55 | James Cook | Mooresville | Falls | Independent | 1889 |
| 56 | Benjamin Roop | Temple | Bell | Democrat | 1889 |
| 57 | James McKinney | Jones Prairie | Milam | Democrat | 1885 |
| 58 | James Moody | Mexia | Limestone | Democrat | 1889 |
| 59 | George W. White | Dew | Freestone | Democrat | 1889 |
| 60 | Jehu Brown | Kerens | Navarro | Democrat | 1889 |
| 61 | Seth Mills | Speegleville | McLennan | Democrat | 1887 |
| 62 | William Kincaid | Groesbeck | Limestone | Democrat | 1889 |
| 63 | Crockett King | Leon Junction | Coryell | Democrat | 1889 |
| 64 | Guy Morrison Bryan | Galveston | Galveston | Democrat | 1888 |
| 65 | Walter Gresham | Galveston | Galveston | Democrat | 1887 |
| 66 | Richard H. D. Sorrell | Wharton | Wharton | Democrat | 1889 |
| 67 | Ibzan Middlebrook | Columbus | Colorado | Democrat | 1889 |
| 68 | Robert W. Thompson | Nelsonville | Austin | Democrat | 1889 |
| 69 | James Overton | Hackberry | Lavaca | Democrat | 1889 |
| 70 | James McGuire | Ledbetter | Fayette | Democrat | 1887 |
| 70 | Charles B. Welhausen | Flatonia | Fayette | Democrat | 1889 |
| 71 | Myers Felder | Chappell Hill | Washington | Democrat | 1889 |
| 72 | Jacob A. Fields | Giddings | Lee | Democrat | 1889 |
| 73 | James Renick | Lexington | Lee | Democrat | 1889 |
| 74 | James M. Robinson | Red Rock | Bastrop | Democrat | 1889 |
| 75 | Felix Ezell Smith | Bluff Springs | Travis | Democrat | 1889 |
| 75 | William Hamby | Austin | Travis | Democrat | 1889 |
| 76 | Norton Moses | Strickling | Burnet | Democrat | 1889 |
| 77 | Martin Hancock | Goldthwaite | Brown | Democrat | 1889 |
| 78 | James H. Faubion | Leander | Williamson | Democrat | 1885 |
| 79 | Sim Whitted | Bowser Bend | San Saba | Democrat | 1889 |
| 80 | George Stevenson | El Paso | El Paso | Democrat | 1889 |
| 81 | Blucher Erskine | Derby | Frio | Democrat | 1889 |
| 82 | Wilbur McDonald | Stockdale | Wilson | Democrat | 1889 |
| 83 | Thomas W. Kennedy | Rio Grande City | Starr | Democrat | 1885 |
| 83 | Albert Urbahn | Laredo | Webb | Democrat | 1889 |
| 84 | William Williamson | Junction City | Kimble | Democrat | 1889 |
| 85 | John Rhodes | Millett | La Salle | Democrat | 1889 |
| 86 | David Robinson | San Antonio | Bexar | Democrat | 1887 |
| 86 | William Miller | Converse | Bexar | Democrat | 1889 |
| 87 | Edward LeGrand Dunlap | Victoria | Victoria | Democrat | 1889 |
| 87 | Vachel Weldon | Cuero | DeWitt | Democrat | 1889 |
| 88 | Robert Rentfro | Brownsville | Cameron | Republican | 1889 |
| 89 | William Clemens | New Braunfels | Comal | Democrat | 1889 |
| 90 | James Peebles | Leesville | Gonzales | Democrat | 1889 |
| 91 | Jacob Ellison | Martindale | Caldwell | Democrat | 1887 |
| 91 | George McGehee | San Marcos | Hays | Democrat | 1887 |
| 92 | William Hamblen | Houston | Harris | Democrat | 1889 |
| 93 | Richard Levy | Longview | Gregg | Democrat | 1889 |
| 94 | Joseph Humphrey | Point | Rains | Democrat | 1889 |
These are multimember or flotorial districts.