Governor Sam Houston records (part I) 1824-1862 bulk 1859-1861

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Governor Sam Houston records (part I) 1824-1862 bulk 1859-1861

Records mainly document Sam Houston's term as governor of Texas from December 21, 1859 to March 16, 1861. Types of records are correspondence, petitions from citizens of various counties, memorandums, proclamations, broadsides, resolutions, requisitions, military orders, minutes, a letterpress book, messages to and from the Texas Senate and House of Representatives, clippings, and related records dating from 1824 to 1862, bulk 1859-1861.

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Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

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Texas politician, soldier, and frontier hero. He was the first president of the Republic of Texas and served as a United States Senator for that state. From the description of Letter, ca. 1855. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122699442 From the description of Letter, 1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145435304 Sam Houston's colorful public life began with his heroic action during the war of 1812. He served as congressman and governor of Tennessee, spent years amon...

Cortina, Juan N. (Juan Nepomuceno), 1824-1894

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Texas. Office of the Governor

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During the 1950s Governor Price Daniel popularized a tradition of Texas governors honoring citizens of Texas by proclaiming them “Admirals in the Texas Navy.” Citizens receive their honorary title for a number of reasons such as special achievement in government service or athletics. The criteria and the selection is at the discretion of the governor. Many citizens are nominated by their state legislators. Native-born Texans are designated as “admirals;” non-native Texans are “honorary admirals....

Texas. Governor (1859-1861 : Houston).

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Sam Houston served as governor of Texas from December 21, 1859 to March 16, 1861. Houston was born in Virginia on March 2, 1793, moved to Tennessee in his early teens, and lived almost three years with the Cherokee Indians in his late teens. He was wounded in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814), gaining the admiration of Andrew Jackson. His legal and political career began in 1818: he was elected district attorney of Nashville, adjutant general, congressman, and finally governor of ...