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Houston played a key role in the annexation of Texas by the United States in 1845 and, ... Sam Houston: Life and Times of Liberator of Texas an Authentic American ...
Sam Houston agreed to open annexation negotiations with the Tyler administration in 1843. By the summer of 1843 Sam Houston's Texas administration had returned to negotiations with the Mexican government to consider a rapprochement that would permit Texas self-governance, possibly as a state of Mexico, with Great Britain acting as mediator.
Sam Houston was born into a slaveholding family in Virginia. [3] [4] His father, Samuel Davidson Houston, an American Revolutionary War veteran, died in 1806 when Houston was eleven.
On February 26, 1845, six days before Polk took office, the U.S. Congress approved the annexation. The Texas legislature approved annexation in July 1845 and constructed a state constitution. In October, Texas residents approved the annexation and the new constitution, and Texas was officially inducted into the United States on December 29 ...
Sam Houston was the premier Southern Unionist in Texas. While he was a slaveholder and deplored the election of the Lincoln Administration, he considered secession unconstitutional and thought secession at that moment in time was a "rash action" that was certain to lead to a conflict favoring the industrial and populated North.
Whereas Lamar had openly boasted of plans to turn Texas into one of the continent's great powers, following the expedition Texans turned to Lamar's predecessor, the Texas Revolution war hero Sam Houston who was the leading political figure advocating annexation to the United States. In 1845, Texas was admitted to the Union.
Sam Houston (1793–1863) October 22, 1836 – December 10, 1838: 1836: Commander-in-chief of the Texian Army: Mirabeau B. Lamar: 2 Mirabeau B. Lamar 1798–1859: December 10, 1838 – December 13, 1841: 1838: 1st vice president of the Republic of Texas David G. Burnet: 3 Sam Houston (1793–1863) December 13, 1841 – December 9, 1844: 1841 ...
Voters overwhelmingly chose Houston the first president, ratified the constitution drawn up by the Convention of 1836, and approved a resolution to request annexation to the United States. [110] Houston issued an executive order sending Santa Anna to Washington, D.C., and from there he was soon sent home. [111]