11th Utah Territorial Legislature
The 11th Utah Territorial Legislature was elected on August 5, 1861.[1]
Session
[edit]The legislative session convened on December 9, 1861, at the Court House in Salt Lake City, and ended on January 17, 1862.[2][3]
Members
[edit]| Name | County | Office | Notes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Territorial Council: | |||||||
| Ezra T. Benson | Cache | ||||||
| Albert Carrington | Salt Lake | ||||||
| William J. Cox | Millard | ||||||
| James W. Cummings | Utah | ||||||
| Leonard E. Harrington | Utah | ||||||
| John W. Hess | Davis | ||||||
| Orson Hyde | Sanpete | ||||||
| Franklin D. Richards | Salt Lake | ||||||
| George A. Smith | Iron | ||||||
| Lorenzo Snow | Weber | ||||||
| Daniel Spencer | Salt Lake | ||||||
| Daniel H. Wells | Salt Lake | President | |||||
| Wilford Woodruff | Salt Lake | ||||||
| Territorial House of Representatives: | |||||||
| Thomas Callister | Millard | ||||||
| Hiram B. Clawson | Salt Lake | ||||||
| William Crosby | Iron | ||||||
| Horace S. Eldredge | Salt Lake | ||||||
| Aaron F. Farr | Weber | ||||||
| Thomas Grover | Davis | ||||||
| Lorenzo H. Hatch | Utah | ||||||
| Joseph Holbrook | Davis | ||||||
| Benjamin F. Johnson | Utah | ||||||
| John V. Long | Salt Lake | ||||||
| Peter Maughan | Cache | ||||||
| Jonathan Midgley | Juab | ||||||
| John M. Moody | Salt Lake | ||||||
| Thomas Rhoads | Summit/Green River | ||||||
| Albert P. Rockwood | Salt Lake | ||||||
| John Rowberry | Tooele | ||||||
| Silas S. Smith | Iron | ||||||
| Bernard Snow | Sanpete | ||||||
| Hosea Stout | Salt Lake | ||||||
| John Taylor | Salt Lake | Speaker | |||||
| Edward W. Thompson | Beaver | ||||||
| Albert K. Thurber | Utah | ||||||
| Chauncey W. West | Weber | ||||||
| Edwin D. Woolley | Salt Lake | ||||||
| Joseph A. Young | Salt Lake | ||||||
The House of Representatives had only 25 members instead of the normal 26 because Carson County, to which the vacant seat was allocated, had been separated earlier in 1861 by the creation of Nevada Territory. In response to this, the Legislative Assembly revised county boundaries throughout the territory, dissolving several other smaller counties, and passed a comprehensive reapportionment of the seats for future legislative elections.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ Contemporaneous reports of the 1861 Utah election are not available because the Deseret News had been forced into hiatus due to a paper shortage. "To Our Patrons". Deseret News. July 27, 1859. p. 4. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
- ^ "Eleventh Annual Session of the Legislative Assembly". Deseret News. December 18, 1861. p. 2. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
- ^ "Drawing to a Close". Deseret News. January 15, 1862. p. 8. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
- ^ "An Act Defining the Boundaries of Counties, and for other purposes". Deseret News. January 29, 1862. p. 8. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
- ^ "An Act Apportioning the Representation of Utah Territory". Deseret News. January 29, 1862. p. 8. Retrieved March 6, 2024.