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Victory in the Battle of San Jacinto made Houston a hero to many Texans, and he won the 1836 Texas presidential election, defeating Stephen F. Austin, who would receive the honor of having the city of Austin named after him, and Henry Smith. Houston took office on October 22, 1836, after interim president David G. Burnet resigned. [51]
The year 1990 saw the opening of Houston Intercontinental Airport's new 12-gate Mickey Leland International Airlines terminal, named after the recently deceased Houston congressman. In 1991 Sakowitz stores shut down; the Sakowitz brothers had brought their original store from Galveston to Houston in 1911.
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second ...
vice president of the Republic of Texas Unaffiliated: 2 : David G. Burnet: 3 December 13, 1841 – December 9, 1844: Sam Houston 1793–1863 (Lived: 70 years) 1st president of the Republic of Texas Unaffiliated: 3 : Edward Burleson: 4 December 9, 1844 – February 19, 1846: Anson Jones 1798–1858 (Lived: 59 years) 11th secretary of state of ...
By Jerry Kronenberg You know that Washington, D.C., is named for America's first president, but did you know that Harrison City, Pa., (population 134) honors ninth president William Henry Harrison ...
Location of counties named for presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln, as well as for Benjamin Franklin.. In the United States, a county is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state that consists of a geographic region with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.
A bust of Houston is located inside the Virginia State Capitol Building in Richmond, Virginia; Bust by Elisabet Ney created for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. It is in the Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin. [8] [9] Besides the large Texas city (Houston, Texas), Houston, Mississippi and Houston, Minnesota are named after Houston; A road ...
One of the perks of being president of the United States is that many things are later named in your honor -- schools, libraries, even entire cities. And among the most common things to name after ...