Robertson, James Harvey, Papers, 1895-1906, and undated

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Robertson, James Harvey, Papers, 1895-1906, and undated

Composed of correspondence, a letterpress, telegrams, broadsides, pamphlets, legal records, and a map, the James Harvey Robertson Papers, 1895-1906, and undated, document Robertson's activities as an attorney and politician.

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Robertson, James Harvey, 1853-1912

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Born in Roane County, Tennessee to J. R. Robertson and Mary Hunt, James Harvey Robertson (1853-1912) moved to Austin, Texas, in 1874. A year later, he was admitted to the bar and established a law practice in Round Rock, where he and his wife Susie Marsh Townsend raised their six children. Following Robertson’s election as a representative of Williamson County in the Eighteenth Texas Legislature in 1882, he served as district attorney for Travis County from 1884 through 1890. In 189...

Hogg, James Stephen, 1851-1906

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James S. Hogg, lawyer, businessman and politician, was attorney general (1887-1890) and governor (1891-1895) of Texas. From the guide to the James Stephen Hogg Papers, 1836-1969, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) James Stephen Hogg, the first native governor of Texas, was born near Rusk on March 24, 1851, the son of Lucanda (McMath) and Joseph Lewis Hogg. His father, a brigadier general, died at the head of his comman...