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Mirabeau Lamar monument at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, reads: "The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy.". Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (August 16, 1798 – December 19, 1859) was an American and Texian attorney, politician, poet, and leading political figure during the Texas Republic era.
David Gouverneur Burnet (April 14, 1788 – December 5, 1870) was an early politician within the Republic of Texas, serving as the interim president of Texas in 1836, the second vice president of the Republic of Texas (1839–1841), and the secretary of state (1846) for the new state of Texas after it was annexed to the United States.
President: Took office: Left office: Notes: David G. Burnet: 1836 1836 Burnet County; (acting) Vice-president of Texas under Lamar, U.S. Senator-Elect 1866. Sam Houston: 1836 1838 Houston; Houston County; also served as Governor and U.S. Senator, and formerly in Tennessee as Governor and U.S. Representative. Referred to as the first President ...
As part of C-SPAN's third Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, nearly 100 historians and biographers rated the 43 former presidents. ... The top 20 presidents in US history, according to ...
Image extracted from the book of Vicente Riva Palacio, Julio Zárate (1880). Vicente Guerrero depicted at the Angel of Independence by Enrique Alciati, Mexico City. Guerrero was deposed in a rebellion under Vice-President Anastasio Bustamante that began on 4 December 1829. Guerrero left the capital to fight in the south, but was deposed by the ...
25 world leaders and dictators when they were young. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. In Other News. Entertainment. ... Book excerpt: "Source Code: My Beginnings" by Bill Gates.
As a new book by CNN anchor and national security correspondent Jim Sciutto reminds us, Trump allegedly believes that even the most murderous dictators, such as Hitler, did good things.
Toggle First elected government of the Texas Republic subsection. 1.1 President. 1.2 Vice-President. 1.3 Secretary of State. ... View history; Tools. Tools. move to ...