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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.
1697 (Texas) / 1698 (Coahuila) Official governor; subsequently governed Nuevo León (1705–1707) and Honduras (1705–1709). Francisco Cuervo y Valdés. 1698. 1702 (Texas) / 1703 (Coahuila) Official governor; previously governed Nuevo León (1687–1688), then Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico (1705–1707) subsequently. Matías de Aguirre.
January 9, 1858. (1858-01-09) (aged 59) Houston, Texas, U.S. Cause of death. Suicide by gunshot. Profession. Physician. Anson Jones (January 20, 1798 – January 9, 1858) was a medical doctor, businessman, member of Congress, and the fourth and last president of the Republic of Texas.
The incumbent president is Joe Biden, who assumed office on January 20, 2021. [13] The president-elect is Donald Trump, who will assume office on January 20, 2025. [14][15] Trump will be the second president after Grover Cleveland to serve two non-consecutive terms, as the 45th and 47th president. [16]
Of presidents since 1960, only Ronald Reagan and (in interim results) Barack Obama placed in the top ten; Obama was the highest-ranked president since Harry Truman (1945–1953). Most of the other recent presidents held middling positions, though George W. Bush placed in the bottom ten, the lowest-ranked president since Warren Harding (1921 ...
Notable top presidents include George Washington at No.2, Thomas Jefferson at No. 7, and Barack Obama at No. 12. While some historians weren't entirely surprised Obama didn't rank higher on the ...
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Texas, ordered by year.Since its admission to statehood in 1845, Texas has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the 1864 election during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the 1868 election, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
José Antonio Navarro (February 27, 1795 – January 13, 1871) was a Texas statesman, revolutionary, rancher, and merchant. The son of Ángel Navarro and Josefa María Ruiz y Peña, he was born into a distinguished noble family at San Antonio de Béxar in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (now the American city of San Antonio, Texas).