The 11th Utah Territorial Legislature was elected on August 5, 1861.Contemporaneous reports of the 1861 Utah election are not available because the Deseret News had been forced into hiatus due to a paper shortage.
Session The legislative session convened on December 9, 1861, at the Court House in Salt Lake City, and ended on January 17, 1862.
Members
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 Box Elder 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.
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