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Eliza (née Allen) Houston Douglass [a] (December 2, 1809 – March 3, 1861) was the first wife of Sam Houston. Their marriage, over after just eleven weeks, ended Houston's career as governor of Tennessee. Houston resigned and went to the home of his foster father John Jolly, a leader of the Cherokee people.
Margaret Lea Houston (April 11, 1819 – December 3, 1867) was First Lady of the Republic of Texas during her husband Sam Houston's second term as President of the Republic of Texas. They met following the first of his two non-consecutive terms as the Republic's president, and married when he was a representative in the Congress of the Republic ...
Sam Houston Historic Schoolhouse in Maryville, Tennessee; Documentary film Sam Houston: American Statesman, Soldier, and Pioneer. Archived March 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine 2009, The Sam Houston Project. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture entry; Tennessee State Library & Archives, Papers of Governor Sam Houston, 1827–1829
Hannah Estey Burnet's husband David G. Burnet was ad interim Republic president before Sam Houston became the official first president. During Houston's first term, he was in the process of obtaining a divorce from Eliza Allen, his estranged wife in Tennessee. [1] Houston's 1838-41 successor Mirabeau B. Lamar was a widower during his term in ...
Temple Lea Houston (August 12, 1860 – August 15, 1905) was an American attorney and politician who served from 1885 to 1889 in the Texas State Senate. He was the last-born child of Margaret Lea Houston and Sam Houston , the first elected president of the Republic of Texas .
Daniel was a Texas state politician, born in Austin on June 8, 1941, into a political dynasty that dated back to his great-great-great grandparents Sam Houston and Margaret Lea Houston. At the time of his birth, his father Marion Price Daniel Sr. was a state representative who eventually rose to the office of Governor of Texas .
Margaret traveled with Lea to visit her sister, who held a garden party where Margaret met Sam Houston. [9] [10] Martin Lea, her son, invited Houston to the Bledsoes so that Houston could discuss investments in land in Texas with Lea. [10] Margaret and Houston became close and when he asked to marry her, Margaret agreed. [11] Lea objected.
Joshua Houston (c. 1822–1902) was born into slavery in about 1822 on the Perry County, Alabama plantation owned by Temple Lea and Nancy Moffette Lea, parents of Margaret Lea Houston. When Margaret married Sam Houston, Joshua moved to Texas with the newlyweds. Joshua traveled with Sam Houston and worked on the construction of Raven Hill in ...