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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said U.S.-owned border wall materials, which were available for sale, were pulled from an Arizona auction at the government's request. The Lonestar State had shown ...
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The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History is an organized research unit and public service component of the University of Texas at Austin named for Dolph Briscoe, the 41st governor of Texas. The center collects and preserves documents and artifacts of key themes in Texas and United States history and makes the items available to researchers ...
Upon recommendation by Samuel Maverick, Jacob Kuechler was commissioned as a captain by Sam Houston to enroll state militia troops in Gillespie County. [6] [7] Kuechler signed up only German Unionists in his frontier company, and was dismissed by Governor Francis R. Lubbock. [8] In 1862, Confederate authorities imposed martial law on Central Texas.
That number puts Texas on the top of the list of states recording the most gun purchases, followed by Florida with 1.4 million. California and Pennsylvania rounded out the states with at least a ...
John Robert Baylor (July 27, 1822 – February 6, 1894) was a US Indian agent, publisher and editor, politician, and a senior officer of the Confederate States Army. [1] [2] After being dismissed as Indian agent, he became one of the founding editors of The White Man, a newspaper in North Texas, and a strong critic of Governor Sam Houston.
Thomas Caruthers (c. 1818–1867), also spelled as Thomas Carothers, was an American politician who served in the Texas House of Representatives for the counties of Grimes, Montgomery and Walker, for the period 1847–1849. His committee assignments were Claims and Accounts, County Boundaries, Jury Fund and Post Routes [1]