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The following is a list of people born in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Brownsville, Texas. Pages in category "People from Brownsville, Texas" The following 81 pages are in this category, out of 81 total.
Kika de la Garza (1927-2017) – former U.S. Congressman from Texas, former member of the Texas House of Representatives Reynaldo Guerra Garza (1915–2004) – first Hispanic judge appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals ( Fifth Circuit ), former judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Brownsville city, Texas – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [95] Pop 2010 [96] Pop 2020 [97] % 2000 % ...
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1771 - José Salvador de la Garza settles in area per Espíritu Santo land grant. [1] [2] [3] 1846 March: Fort Taylor established by Zachary Taylor. [4] [5] May 8: Battle of Palo Alto. [4] 1848 - Brownsville founded by Charles Stillman. [6] [5] 1849 Travellers of the California Gold Rush pass through town. [6] Stillman house built. [6 ...
Apr. 10—The Brownsville Independent School District Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to consolidate three pairs of schools in Southmost, aiming to initially save about $1 million per ...
Garza was crowned the 1958 Miss All South Texas Sweetheart and was a homecoming queen at Pan American College. [2] At the time of her death, Garza was a second-grade schoolteacher; she taught indigent students at an elementary school on the south side of McAllen. In a letter written to a friend before her disappearance, she described herself as ...
While in Texas state custody Garza was held at the Ellis Unit in Walker County, Texas USP Terre Haute, where Garza was held on federal death row and executed. Juan Raul Garza (November 18, 1956 – June 19, 2001) was an American murderer and drug lord who was executed by the United States federal government for three drug-related murders.