Texas Senate, District 12

Texas's 12th State Senate district
Senator	Tan Parker R–Flower Mound
Demographics	59.8% White 10.3% Black 21.1% Hispanic 8.5% Asian
Population	983,996

District 12 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves portions of Denton and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

The current senator from District 12 is Tan Parker.

Biggest cities in the district

District 12 has a population of 818,893 with 588,816 that is at voting age from the 2010 census.^[1]

District officeholders

Name		Party	Years	Legislature	Counties served
1	John McNeel		February 16, 1846 – December 13, 1847	1st	Brazoria, Matagorda
2	Stephen W. Perkins		December 13, 1847 – November 5, 1849	2nd
3	Isaac W. Brashear		November 5, 1849 – November 3, 1851	3rd	Harris
4	James A. Truitt		November 3, 1851 – November 7, 1853	4th	Panola, Shelby
5	William G. W. Jowers		November 7, 1853 – November 5, 1855	5th	Anderson, Houston
6	William M. Taylor		November 5, 1855 – November 7, 1859	7th
7	Alexis T. Rainey		November 7, 1859 – February 13, 1860	8th
8	Steward Alexander Miller		January 21, 1861 – November 4, 1861
9	Benjamin T. Selman		November 4, 1861 – February 7, 1870	11th	Smith, Van Zandt, Wood
10	George Ruby	Republican	February 8, 1870 – January 13, 1874	13th	Brazoria, Galveston, Matagorda
	Benjamin Cromwell Franklin	Democratic	Elected but never sworn	14th
11	Thomas Miller Joseph	Democratic	March 19, 1874 – April 18, 1876
12	Finis E. Piner	Democratic	April 18, 1876 – January 14, 1879	15th	Collin, Denton
13	William D. Lair	Democratic	January 14, 1879 – January 9, 1883	17th
14	Alvah Chesley	Democratic	January 9, 1883 – January 13, 1885	18th	Austin, Burleson, Fort Bend, Waller, Washington
15	Hermann Knittel	Democratic	January 13, 1885 – January 8, 1889	20th
16	Ernst Gustav Maetze	Democratic	January 8, 1889 – October 12, 1891	22nd
17	William W. Searcy	Democratic	March 14, 1892 – January 10, 1893	22nd
18	Robert E. Steele	Democratic	January 10, 1893 – January 12, 1897	23rd 24th	Brazos, Freestone, Limestone, Robertson
19	John A. Wayland	Democratic	January 12, 1897 – January 13, 1903	25th 26th 27th
20	Alfred J. Harper	Democratic	January 13, 1903 – September 17, 1910	28th 29th 30th 31st
21	James R. Astin	Democratic	January 10, 1911 – January 9, 1917	32nd 33rd 30th 34th
22	Edmond A. Decherd, Jr.	Democratic	January 9, 1917 – April 16, 1918	35th
23	Robert L. Williford	Democratic	January 14, 1919 – January 11, 1921	36th
24	D. Leon Harp	Democratic	March 12, 1921 – January 9, 1923	37th
25	William E. Doyle	Democratic	July 18, 1921 – January 13, 1925	37th 38th
26	Pierce B. Ward	Democratic	January 13, 1925 – January 8, 1929	39th 40th	Ellis, Hill, Hood, Johnson, Somervell
27	Will M. Martin	Democratic	January 8, 1929 – January 12, 1937	41st 42nd 43rd 44th
28	Vernon Lemens	Democratic	January 12, 1937 – January 9, 1945	48th
29	A. B. Crawford	Democratic	January 9, 1945 – January 11, 1949	50th
30	Crawford Martin	Democratic	January 11, 1949 – January 13, 1953	52nd
		Democratic	January 13, 1953 – January 8, 1963	57th	Bosque, Comanche, Coryell, Ellis, Erath, Hamilton, Hill, Hood, Johnson, Somervell
31	J. P. Word	Democratic	January 8, 1963 – January 10, 1967	59th
		Democratic	January 10, 1967 – January 9, 1973	62nd	Bandera, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Comal, Comanche, Concho, Coryell, Ellis, Erath, Gillespie, Hamilton, Hill, Hood, Johnson, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Lampasas, Llano, Mason, McCulloch, Menard, Mills, Real, San Saba, Somervell
32	Betty Andujar	Republican	January 9, 1973 – January 11, 1983	67th	Tarrant
33	Hugh Q. Parmer	Democratic	January 11, 1983 – January 8, 1991	71st
34	Mike Moncrief	Democratic	January 8, 1991 – January 12, 1993	72nd
		Democratic	January 12, 1993 – January 10, 1995	73rd	Dallas, Tarrant
		Democratic	January 10, 1995 – January 14, 2003	77th	Tarrant
35	Jane Nelson	Republican	January 14, 2003 – January 3, 2023	87th	Denton, Tarrant
36	Tan Parker	Republican	January 10, 2023 – present	88th

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