Records 1865-1866

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Records 1865-1866

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Types of records are correspondence, petitions, and telegrams, dating from May 1865 to November 1866. Records are of Andrew Jackson Hamilton's term as governor of Texas. Letters relate to the aftermath of the Civil War, the beginning of Reconstruction, and the Constitutional Convention of 1866.

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Andrew Jackson Hamilton (1815-1875), governor of Texas, was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on January 28, 1815. He moved to Texas in 1846 and practiced law in La Grange before moving to and settling in Austin. He married Mary Bowen, also of Alabama. Governor Peter H. Bell of Texas appointed Hamilton acting attorney general in 1849. From 1851 to 1853, Hamilton represented Travis County in the state House of Representatives. In 1859, Hamilton was voted into the United States House of Re...