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Smith (second from left) with state House Speaker Gus Mutscher, former President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes in Brenham, August 1970. Smith was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1944 and then to the Texas State Senate in 1956.
Brenham (/ ˈ b r ɛ n əm / BREH-nəm) is a city in east-central Texas, United States, and the county seat of Washington County, [7] with a population of 17,369 according to the 2020 U.S. census.
The settlement was first known as the Chriesman Settlement, in honor of Horatio Chriesman (1797–1878). In 1839, the second oldest Presbyterian church in Texas was established here by Reverend Hugh Wilson (1794–1868).
In 1913, it merged with the Brenham Daily Banner to form the Brenham Daily Banner Press, which was published as a daily and weekly newspaper from 1913–1926. [2] The paper became the first daily in Texas to hire a female editor, in 1917. [3] Brenham Daily Banner Press publisher George A.T. Neu was president of the Texas Press Association in 1927.
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Brenham Heritage Museum. Washington County is a county in Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 35,805. [1] Its county seat is Brenham, which is located along U.S. Highway 290, 72 miles northwest of Houston. [2] The county was created in 1835 as a municipality of Mexico and organized as a county in 1837.
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St. Mary's Catholic Church is a historic Catholic church at 701 Church in Brenham, Texas. It was built in 1935 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. See also