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Richard Allen (c. 1830–1909) [1] was an African American community and political leader in Houston, Texas. He was elected to the Twelfth Texas Legislature in 1869 and the Thirteenth Legislature in 1873, though his latter win was contested. Allen was active in the Republican Party of Texas and served as a delegate at Texas Republican ...
Gilbert Pena, incoming 2015 Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Pasadena, lived in Houston prior to 1992 [52] Jack Porter, U.S. Senate candidate in 1948 and a builder of the modern Texas Republican Party [53] Leighton Schubert, state representative from Caldwell, Texas; former Houston resident [54]
Historians believe that the first cholera pandemic had lingered in Indonesia and the Philippines in 1830. The second cholera pandemic spread from India to Russia and then to the rest of Europe claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. [47] It reached Moscow in August 1830, and by 1831, the epidemic had infiltrated Russia's main cities and towns.
Richard Allen (June 10, 1830 – May 16, 1909) was a carpenter, contractor, businessman and, after the Civil War, a Republican politician in Texas. He was elected to two terms in the Texas House of Representatives. In 1878, he was the first African American in Texas to run for statewide office, but was unsuccessful in his campaign for ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... 1830 in Texas (1 C) 1831 in Texas (1 C) 1832 in ... Pages in category "1830s in Texas" The following 4 pages are ...
City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1910 is a 1983 non-fiction book by Harold L. Platt, published by Temple University Press. It is the second book of the publisher's "Technology and Urban Growth" series, which debuted in 1980. [ 1 ]
Grave marker for Adele Briscoe Looscan, Glenwood Cemetery, Houston. Looscan died in Houston on November 23, 1935, and was interred at Glenwood Cemetery. [1] She donated an extensive collection of Texas history books to the Houston Public Library and the Looscan Neighborhood Library in Houston is named in her honor.
Houston: A History. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-73020-9. Muir, Andrew Forest (July 1960). "Railroads Come to Houston 1857–1861". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 64 (1): 42– 63. JSTOR 30240901. Platt, Harold L. (1983). City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1915.