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Samuel Augustus Maverick (July 23, 1803 – September 2, 1870) was a Texas lawyer, politician, land baron and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. His name is the source of the term " maverick ", first attested in 1867. [ 1 ]
The new county courthouse The Maverick County Jail, established 1949, is adjacent to the county courthouse. Maverick County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 57,887. [2] Its county seat is Eagle Pass. [3] The county was created in 1856 and organized in 1871. [4]
Eagle Pass is a city in and the county seat of Maverick County in the U.S. state of Texas.Its population was 28,130 as of the 2020 census. [4]Eagle Pass borders the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, which is to the southwest and across the Rio Grande.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Maverick County, Texas. There are one district and one individual property listed on the National Register in the county. Both are State Antiquities Landmark while the individual property is also a Recorded Texas Historic ...
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In 1838, Maverick drew this sketch of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio de Bexar.. In October 1837, Mary Maverick, her brother, son, and seven slaves left South Carolina. After a brief stop in Tuscaloosa, they left for the Republic of Texas on December 7, accompanied by her fifteen-year-old brother, Robert Adams, and three additional sla
Henderson, Richard B. Maury Maverick: A Political Biography. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1970. Weiss, Stuart L. “Maury Maverick and the Liberal Bloc” Journal of American History 57 (March 1971): 880-95. American Notes & Queries: Gobbledygook talk: Maury Maverick's name for the long high-sounding words of Washington's red-tape ...
Maury Maverick Jr. (1921–2003), Texas attorney, activist, and columnist; Samuel Maverick (1803–1870), Texas pioneer and land baron from whom the term maverick originated; Samuel Maverick Jr. (1837-1936), Texas soldier, businessman, and Alamo preservationist; Samuel Maverick (apprentice) (died 1770), a young man killed in the Boston Massacre