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Location of Victoria County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Victoria County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Victoria County, Texas. There are one district and 114 individual properties listed on the ...
Valedictorian John Tanaka received his diploma at the Juneau High School gym during a special graduation ceremony on April 15, 1942. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan and the U.S. entry into World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, which gave military commanders the authority to exclude specified persons from ...
The University of Houston–Victoria was founded in 1971 and remains there today. In 2017, the Victoria Islamic Center mosque was destroyed by an arson attack. [10] [11] A 25-year-old Victoria man was convicted of the crime and sentenced to prison. [12] [13] A documentary film, A Town Called Victoria, was produced about the incident. [14] [15] [16]
Edward James Burns (born October 7, 1957) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Dallas in Texas since 2017. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Juneau in Alaska from 2009 to 2017.
Victoria County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 91,319. [1] Its county seat is also named Victoria. [2] Victoria County is included in the Victoria metropolitan statistical area, and comprises the entirety of the Victoria media market in Texas.
As of the census [3] of 2000, there were 111,163 people, 40,157 households, and 29,741 families residing within the MSA. The racial makeup of the MSA was 75.44% White, 5.53% African American, 0.52% Native American, 1.20% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 15.05% from other races, and 2.21% from two or more races.
Prior to his retirement, Saunders completed building the Federal Building which went on to bear his name. Hurff Saunders died in Juneau on August 29, 1996, at the age of 93. [8] Robert Boochever was born October 2, 1917, in New York City, and was a United States federal judge and a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court. Boochever became an ...
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