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The Veterans Land Board Scandal was a political scandal in Texas in that became public in 1954.. The Texas Legislature enacted the Veterans Land Act in November 1946 which created the Texas Veterans Land Board as a division of the General Land Office (GLO).
On February 8, 1842, Henry Francis Fisher, [3] Joseph Baker [4] and Burchard Miller, [5] representing the San Saba Colonization Company, petitioned for a land grant from the Republic of Texas.
SpaceX would acquire public land in Texas to expand its rocket-launch facilities under a tentative deal that is moving forward after months of opposition from nearby residents and officials near ...
2026 United States Senate election in Texas ← 2020 November 3, 2026 2032 → Party Republican Democratic Incumbent U.S. senator John Cornyn Republican Elections in ...
Giles was born near Manor, Texas, in Travis County on September 21, 1900. He was the son of Banton W. and Leora Norwood Giles. He married Effie Dean Rogan in 1921. They had two sons: J. Bascom Giles, III, and Rogan B. Giles.
Texas (/ ˈ t ɛ k s ə s / ⓘ TEK-səss, locally also / ˈ t ɛ k s ɪ z / TEK-siz; [8] Spanish: Texas or Tejas, [b] pronounced) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.
In 1845, the Republic of Texas was annexed to the United States of America, becoming the 28th U.S. state.Border disputes between the new state and Mexico, which had never recognized Texas independence and still considered the area a renegade Mexican state, led to the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
Texas divisionism is a mainly historical movement that advocates the division of the U.S. state of Texas into as many as five states, as some considered to be statutorily permitted by a provision included in the resolution admitting the former Republic of Texas into the Union in 1845.