Texas Senate, District 13

Texas's 13th State Senate district
Senator	Houston
Demographics	10.5% White 41% Black 40.3% Hispanic 8.9% Asian
Population	886,226

District 13 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves portions of Fort Bend and Harris counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

The current senator from District 13 is Borris Miles.

Biggest cities in the district

District 13 has a population of 946,273 with 713,052 that is at voting age from the 2020 census.^[1]

District officeholders

Name		Party	Years	Legislature	Counties served
1	Philip Minor Cuney		February 16, 1846 – November 5, 1849	2nd	Austin, Fort Bend
2	Jesse Grimes		November 5, 1849 – November 3, 1851	3rd	Grimes, Montgomery, Walker
3	James Davis		November 3, 1851 – November 7, 1853	4th	Jefferson, Liberty, Polk, Tyler
4	Madison G. Whitaker		November 7, 1853 – November 2, 1857	6th	Angelina, Nacogdoches
5	John N. Fall		November 2, 1857 – November 4, 1861	8th
6	Jefferson Weatherford		November 4, 1861 – October 17, 1864	10th	Dallas, Henderson, Kaufman
7	J. K. P. Record		August 6, 1866 – February 7, 1870	11th
8	John G. Bell	Republican	February 18, 1870 – January 14, 1873	12th	Austin, Fort Bend, Wharton
9	Francis J. Franks	Republican	January 14, 1873 – January 13, 1874	13th
10	Walter Moses Burton	Republican	February 20, 1874 – April 18, 1876	14th
11	Robert S. Guy	Democratic	April 18, 1876 – January 11, 1881	16th	Dallas, Ellis
12	Anson Rainey	Democratic	January 11, 1881 – January 9, 1883	17th
13	John P. Fowler	Democratic	January 9, 1883 – January 11, 1887	19th	Bastrop, Fayette, Lee
14	Jonathan Lane	Democratic	January 11, 1887 – January 13, 1891	21st
15	Hiram Garwood	Democratic	January 13, 1891 – January 10, 1893	22nd
16	Wiley M. Imboden	Democratic	January 10, 1893 – November 11, 1893	23rd	Anderson, Cherokee, Houston, Trinity
17	Benjamin F. Rogers	Democratic	January 8, 1895 – January 10, 1899	24th 25th
18	Levi Lloyd	Democratic	January 10, 1899 – January 13, 1903	26th 27th
19	James I. Perkins	Democratic	January 13, 1903 – January 10, 1905	28th	Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Houston, Trinity
20	Charles C. Stokes	Democratic	January 10, 1905 – August 11, 1910	29th 30th 31st
21	William J. Townsend, Jr.	Democratic	January 10, 1911 – January 9, 1917	32nd 33rd 34th
22	Jeff J. Strickland	Democratic	January 9, 1917 – October 2, 1920	35th 36th
23	I. D. Fairchild	Democratic	January 11, 1921 – January 13, 1925	37th 38th
24	Edgar E. Witt	Democratic	January 13, 1925 – March 20, 1930	39th 40th 41st	Falls, Limestone, McLennan, Milam
25	William Robert Poage	Democratic	January 13, 1931 – January 12, 1937	42nd 43rd 44th
26	William R. Newton, Sr.	Democratic	January 12, 1937 – May 21, 1938	45th
27	Doss Hardin	Democratic	July 23, 1938 – September 13, 1940	46th
28	Kyle Vick	Democratic	January 14, 1941 – January 13, 1953	52nd
29	Jarrard Secrest	Democratic	January 13, 1953 – January 8, 1963	57th	Bell, McLennan, Milam
30	Murray Watson, Jr.	Democratic	January 8, 1963 – January 10, 1967	59th
		Democratic	January 10, 1967 – January 9, 1973	62nd	Bell, Falls, Limestone, McLennan, Milam
31	Walter Mengden	Republican	January 9, 1973 – January 11, 1983	67th	Harris
32	Craig A. Washington	Democratic	January 11, 1983 – January 23, 1990	71st	Fort Bend, Harris
33	Rodney Ellis	Democratic	February 27, 1990 – January 10, 2017	84th
34	Borris Miles	Democratic	January 10, 2017 – Present	87th

Election history

Election history of District 21 from 1992.^[b]

Previous elections

2020

2016

2012

2010

2006

2002

1998

1994

1992

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