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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 ...
1st vice president of the Republic of Texas David G. Burnet: 3 Sam Houston (1793–1863) December 13, 1841 – December 9, 1844: 1841: 1st president of the Republic of Texas Edward Burleson: 4 Anson Jones (1798–1858) December 9, 1844 – December 19, 1846: 1844: 11th secretary of state of the Republic of Texas: Kenneth Lewis Anderson
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 ...
President John F. Kennedy in the presidential limousine, minutes before his assassination. On Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 pm Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC), Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President John F. Kennedy. The Texas Governor, John B. Connally, was also shot but survived. The episode caused a national ...
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 attorney, politician, poet, and leading political figure during the Texas Republic era.
George Walker Bush [a] (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Bush family and the Republican Party, he is the eldest son of the 41st president, George H. W. Bush, and was the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. [128] Later that day, Johnson took the presidential oath of office aboard Air Force One . [ 129 ] Cecil Stoughton 's iconic photograph of Johnson taking the oath of office as Mrs. Kennedy looks on is the most famous photo ever taken aboard a presidential aircraft.
A University of Texas at Austin–Texas Tribune poll released in June 2013, showed Perry leading potential primary challenger Attorney General Greg Abbott by double digits, 45–19%. [133] In February, the same poll had Perry leading by a 3-to-1 margin (49–17%) of 32 points over Abbott.