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Mirabeau Lamar monument at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, reads: "The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy.". Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (August 16, 1798 – December 19, 1859) was an American attorney, politician, poet, and leading political figure during the Texas Republic era.
Presidents and vice presidents of the Republic of Texas; No. Presidency President Prior office Party Term Vice President — March 16, 1836 – October 22, 1836: David G. Burnet 1788–1870 (Lived: 82 years) Delegate to the Convention of 1833: Unaffiliated: Interim [2] Lorenzo de Zavala: 1 October 22, 1836 – December 10, 1838: Sam Houston ...
2.2 Vice-President. 2.3 Secretary of State. 2.4 Secretary of War. ... A list of officials of the Republic of Texas, 1836–1846: First elected government of the Texas ...
As part of C-SPAN's third Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, almost 100 historians and biographers rated the 43 former presidents on ten qualities of presidential leadership: Public ...
President: Took office: Left office: Notes: David G. Burnet: 1836 1836 Burnet County; (acting) Vice-president of Texas under Lamar, U.S. Senator-Elect 1866. Sam Houston: 1836 1838 Houston; Houston County; also served as Governor and U.S. Senator, and formerly in Tennessee as Governor and U.S. Representative. Referred to as the first President ...
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Texas, ordered by year.Since its admission to statehood in 1845, Texas has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the 1864 election during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the 1868 election, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
Trump won Texas in 2016 against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by about 9 points. While he lost the overall race, he won Texas against Joe Biden in 2020 by about 6 points .
Of presidents since 1960, only Ronald Reagan and (in interim results) Barack Obama placed in the top ten; Obama was the highest-ranked president since Harry Truman (1945–1953). Most of the other recent presidents held middling positions, though George W. Bush placed in the bottom ten, the lowest-ranked president since Warren Harding (1921 ...