Powers, Stephen F. Papers, 1777-1885
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Powers, Stephen F., 1814-1882
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Born in Maine, Stephen F. Powers (1814-1882) moved to New York, where he established a legal practice in 1835. President Martin Van Buren appointed him U.S. counsel in Basel, Switzerland, in 1839, resigning in 1842. Five years later, President James K. Polk appointed Powers First Lieutenant in the 10th U.S. Infantry and assigned him to the U.S. Military Commission for the Government of Occupied Territory at Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. In 1849, Powers moved to Brownsville, Texas, ...
Wells, James B., 1850-1923
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James B. Wells, Jr., attorney of Brownsville, Texas, was the central figure in South Texas Democratic politics from the mid-1880s through the first decade of the twentieth century and continued to exercise power as the Cameron County Democratic chairman until 1920. Wells served as chairman of the Texas Democratic Party from 1900 through 1904. Wells held public office for only two brief periods: as Brownsville city attorney in the early 1880s, and in 1897 he accepted a gubernatorial appointment t...
