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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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The judicial system of Texas has a reputation as one of the most complex in the United States, [10] with many layers and many overlapping jurisdictions. [11] Texas has two courts of last resort: the Texas Supreme Court, which hears civil cases, and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Except in the case of some municipal benches, partisan ...
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Texas, ordered by year.Since its admission to statehood in 1845, Texas has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the 1864 election during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the 1868 election, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
The Alamo Story-From History to Current Conflicts. Plano, TX: Republic of Texas Press. ISBN 1-55622-678-0. Green, Michael R. (1 April 1988). "To the People of Texas and All the Americans in the World". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 91 (4). Texas State Historical Association: 483– 508. JSTOR 30240052. Hardin, Stephen L. (1994). Texian ...