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Toggle First elected government of the Texas Republic subsection. 1.1 President. 1.2 Vice-President. 1.3 Secretary of State. 1.4 Secretary of War. 1.5 Secretary of ...
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.
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 ...
The president of the Republic of Texas (Spanish: Presidente de la República de Tejas) was the head of state and head of government while Texas was an independent republic between 1836 and 1845. The president served as the commander-in-chief of the Texas Military Forces. [1]
In semi-presidential and parliamentary systems, the head of government (i.e. executive) role is fulfilled by the listed head of government and the head of state. In one-party states , the ruling party 's leader (e.g. the General Secretary ) is usually the de facto top leader of the state, though sometimes this leader also holds the presidency ...
As part of C-SPAN's third Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, nearly 100 historians and biographers rated the 43 former presidents.
President of the Republic of China (1944–1945) 1946: Treason (Executed by firing squad) Liang Hongzhi: Collaborationist China: President of the Reformed Government of the Republic of China (1938–1940) 1946: Treason (Executed by firing squad) Kōki Hirota Japan: Prime Minister of Japan (1936–1937) 1946: Crimes against humanity (Executed by ...
Joe Biden again called his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping a “dictator” in an off-the-cuff remark soon after the rare summit that both sides said was their “most productive meeting” to date.