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Roberts was forced to respond with the sale of his holiday homes in Palm Springs and Beverly Hills as well as three of his Mercedes cars. [ 14 ] Richard Roberts resigned from the presidency of ORU on November 23, 2007, after being named as a defendant in a lawsuit alleging improper use of university funds for political and personal purposes ...
Robertson's Colony was an empresario colonization effort during the Mexican Texas period. It is named after Sterling C. Robertson , but had previously been known by other names. It has also been referred to as the Nashville Colony, after the Tennessee city where the effort originated, the Texas Association, the Upper Colony, and Leftwich's ...
Sterling Clack Robertson (1785–1842) was an empresario from Tennessee, during Mexican Texas.He introduced 600 families into Robertson's Colony.Robertson was also an elected delegate to the Washington-on-the-Brazos convention, signing both the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the Republic of Texas.
1833 map of Coahuila and Texas; Austin's Colony is the large pink area in the southeast.. The "Old Three Hundred" were 297 grantees who purchased 307 parcels of land from Stephen Fuller Austin in Mexican Texas.
British North America comprised the colonial territories of the British Empire in North America from 1783 onwards. English colonisation of North America began in the 16th century in Newfoundland, then further south at Roanoke and Jamestown, Virginia, and more substantially with the founding of the Thirteen Colonies along the Atlantic coast of North America.
Oran Milo Roberts (July 9, 1815 – May 19, 1898), was an American politician who served as the 17th Governor of Texas from January 21, 1879, to January 16, 1883. He was a member of the Democratic Party .
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Finis Alonzo Crutchfield Jr. (() August 22, 1916 [1] – () May 21, 1987 [2]) was a noted American clergyman and a bishop in the United Methodist Church.He began his pastoral career after graduating from Duke University Divinity School in 1940.