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Sam Houston Historic Schoolhouse in Maryville, Tennessee; Documentary film Sam Houston: American Statesman, Soldier, and Pioneer. Archived March 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine 2009, The Sam Houston Project. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture entry; Tennessee State Library & Archives, Papers of Governor Sam Houston, 1827–1829
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.
The Sam Houston Coliseum (now demolished) in Houston was named for him. A mural on a gas tank depicts Houston; it is located near Texas State Highway 225 in Houston. [2] Sam Houston High School, [3] in Moss Bluff, Louisiana and Arlington, Texas [4] Sam Houston Middle School, [5] in the cities of Irving and Garland, Texas
Margaret Lea Houston (April 11, 1819 – December 3, 1867) was First Lady of the Republic of Texas during her husband Sam Houston's second term as President of the Republic of Texas. They met following the first of his two non-consecutive terms as the Republic's president, and married when he was a representative in the Congress of the Republic ...
Samuel "Sam" Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) represented the state of Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives, and was elected Governor of Tennessee. He resigned the governorship in 1829 and lived with the Cherokee in the Arkansas Territory .
Sam Houston, a Cherokee Nation citizen also known as Colonneh, meaning "the Raven", ca. 1830 Sam Houston had a diverse relationship with Native Americans, particularly the Cherokee from Tennessee. He was an adopted son, and he was a negotiator, strategist, and creator of fair public policy for Native Americans as a legislator, governor and ...
The Sam Houston National Forest, one of four National Forests in Texas, is located 50 miles north of Houston.The forest is administered together with the other three United States National Forests and two National Grasslands located entirely in Texas, from common offices in Lufkin, Texas.
Woodland is a historic house on the grounds of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Built in stages beginning about 1847, it was the residence of Sam Houston from 1847 to 1859. The house is now part of Sam Houston Memorial Museum, and is a National Historic Landmark. [2]