[1] Members were sworn in when the term's first session, and the Legislature's 71st overall,[2] began on January 5, 1892.

[6] M. M. Evans, as the incumbent Lieutenant Governor of the state, served as the Senate's President.

[4] In the election for President pro tempore, 16th district senator George G. Dillard nominated Robert Aaron Dean, the senator from the 32nd district and incumbent president pro tempore, for the election.

[4] Dean won the election, receiving 30 votes compared to Simonton's 12.

[3][5] Fourteen new representatives were sworn in at the start of the 1894 session to fill vacancies.