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David Burnet was orphaned as a child. [3] In 1805, Burnet became a clerk for a New York counting house, Robinson and Hartshorne. When the firm suffered financial difficulty, Burnet gave his entire personal inheritance, $1,300 (equivalent to $26,000 in 2023), to try to save the company. The firm went bankrupt, and Burnet lost all of the money. [3]
Hannah Estey Burnet's husband David G. Burnet was ad interim Republic president before Sam Houston became the official first president. During Houston's first term, he was in the process of obtaining a divorce from Eliza Allen, his estranged wife in Tennessee. [ 1 ]
The Texas Declaration of Independence had already been signed on March 2, [6] and David G. Burnet was elected interim President of the new Republic of Texas on March 10. [7] The Alamo had fallen on March 6, [ 8 ] and Sam Houston had been victorious on April 21 at the Battle of San Jacinto . [ 9 ]
Lamar's vice president was David G. Burnet. Several weeks later, in his first formal address to the Texas Congress, Lamar urged that the Cherokee and Comanche tribes be driven from their lands in Texas, even if the tribes had to be destroyed. He proposed to create a national bank and to secure a loan from either the United States or Europe ...
David G. Burnet was elected the interim president of the new Republic of Texas. After finishing their constitution, the delegates organized an ad-interim government which would serve until the following October. As president they chose David G. Burnet, who had not been elected to the Convention. Burnet had planned to join the fighting at the ...
Bob Barker, the longtime host of “The Price Is Right,” died at age 99. For 36 years, Barker was married to Dorothy Jo Gideon. The couple wed in 1945 and were married until her death in 1981.
Other than Austin, the only other Texan he knew before arriving was David G. Burnet who later became Interim President of Texas. [11] Zavala had known Burnet in New York. Both men had been given Empresario Grants in prior years. [8]
Bob Barker was the romantic type, one to make grand gestures again and again, even if his longtime companion, Nancy Burnet, rebuffed him time and again. He was also charming and had a dry sense of ...