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The United States recognized the Republic of Texas, created by a new constitution on March 2, 1836, as a new independent nation and commissioned its first representative, Alcee La Branche as the chargé d'affaires in 1837. The U.S. never sent a full minister (the term "ambassador" was not in use) to Texas, but a series of chargés represented ...
The Republic of Texas was annexed into the United States and admitted as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. Initially rejected due to concerns over slavery and potential conflict with Mexico, Texas faced economic decline by the early 1840s, prompting President Sam Houston to seek recognition of independence from Mexico.
A Texas Legation was maintained by the Republic of Texas in Washington, D.C.; London; and Paris (1 Place Vendôme) from 1836 through 1845. In a bid to protect itself from almost certain invasion by forces from neighboring Mexico , the Texas government sought to foster international ties and so opened the Texas Legations in London and Paris.
France, Belgium, and the Netherlands were the only three European nations to fully and officially recognize Texas as a sovereign nation. [ 12 ] A marginal number of Dutch immigrants began to settle in Texas; however, the percentage of Dutch Texans would remain below 3% until after the Civil War and the end of the American Restoration , when ...
James Power (1788 or 1789 – August 15, 1852) was an Irish-born Texan empresario, politician and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, known for the land grant he received with partner James Hewetson that included the coastal area between the mouths of the Guadalupe and Nueces Rivers, as well as his founding and service as the first mayor of the Aransas City settlement.
Houston, given his father's name, was born in 1689 or 1690 in Ulster in the northern reaches of the Kingdom of Ireland (1542–1800). [1] [5] [b] Around 1735, Houston, his wife, four sons, two daughters, and his widowed mother left Ireland for Pennsylvania; [1] [c] one of their seven children, James, stayed in Ireland and died there.
The first European to see Texas was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who led an expedition for the governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, in 1520.While searching for a passage between the Gulf of Mexico and Asia, [17] Álvarez de Pineda created the first map of the northern Gulf Coast. [18]
Irish Travellers are an ethnic group with origins in Ireland; they may or may not consider themselves to be Irish or Irish American. Most Irish Travellers are in South Carolina and Texas, especially in the North Augusta and Fort Worth/White Settlement areas specifically. Irish Traveller Americans consist of people originating from immigrants ...