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Established by the Constitution of Republic of Texas [1] Enabling Act, Dec. 22, 1836 Shelby Corzine: 1836–1839 [a] Ezekiel Wimberly Cullen: 1839 [b] Anthony B. Shelby: 1839–1841 [c] Thomas Johnson (Texas jurist) 1841 [d] Richard Morris (Texas jurist) 1841–1844 [e] John Baker Jones: 1844–1845 [f
The Constitution of the State of Texas is the document that establishes the structure and function of the government of the U.S. state of Texas and enumerates the basic rights of the citizens of Texas. The current document was adopted on February 15, 1876, and is the seventh constitution in Texas history (including the Mexican constitution).
Texas passed a new constitution in 1876 that segregated schools and established a poll tax to support them, but it was not originally required for voting. [13] In 1901 the Democratic-dominated legislature imposed a poll tax as a requirement for voting, and succeeded in disfranchising most blacks. The number of black voters decreased from ...
George Thompson Ruby (July 1, 1841 – October 31, 1882) [1] was an African-American Republican politician in Reconstruction-era Texas.Born in New York to African-American businessman Reuben Ruby and Rachel Humphey and raised in Portland, Maine, [2] he worked in Boston and Haiti before starting teaching in New Orleans before the end of the American Civil War.
The Constitution of the Republic of Texas was the supreme law of Texas from 1836 to 1845. On March 2, 1836, Texas declared itself an independent republic [1] because of a lack of support in the United States for the Texas Revolution. [2] The declaration of independence was written by George Childress [3] and modeled after the United States ...
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.
The Court was established by the Constitution of 1836, which created the Supreme Court and such inferior courts as the Texas Congress might from time to time establish. [1] The constitution also mandated that the Republic be divided into judicial districts, and that the district judges would serve as the associate judges on the Supreme Court ...
February 28 - The United States Congress passes a bill that would authorize the United States to annex the Republic of Texas. March 1 - United States President John Tyler signs the authorization bill. October 13 - A majority of voters in the Republic approve a proposed Texas state constitution.