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Eliza (née Allen) Houston Douglass [a] (December 2, 1809 – March 3, 1861) was the first wife of Sam Houston. Their marriage, over after just eleven weeks, ended Houston's career as governor of Tennessee. Houston resigned and went to the home of his foster father John Jolly, a leader of the Cherokee people.
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 ...
In 1829, after divorcing his first wife, Houston resigned from office, and moved to the Arkansas Territory to live with the Cherokee once more. Houston settled in Texas in 1832. After the Battle of Gonzales , he helped organize Texas's provisional government and was selected as the top-ranking official in the Texian Army .
Hannah Estey Burnet's husband David G. Burnet was ad interim Republic president before Sam Houston became the official first president. During Houston's first term, he was in the process of obtaining a divorce from Eliza Allen, his estranged wife in Tennessee. [1] Houston's 1838-41 successor Mirabeau B. Lamar was a widower during his term in ...
By 1850, Houston was being discussed as a possible candidate for president of the United States, but his marriage to Eliza Allen (his first wife) took him out of the presidential race. [ 16 ] Opposing fellow Southerners, Houston voted against the Kansas–Nebraska Act (1854), which would have spread slavery into western territories and states ...
Houston was born in Cedar Bayou, Texas, in 1877, to Sam Houston Jr. and his wife Lucy Anderson. Her paternal grandparents were Sam Houston and Margaret Lea Houston. [3] She began writing at age eight. [1] She was the sister of Dallas resident Harry Howard Houston (1883–1935). [4]
Samuel Houston Jr. (May 25, 1843–1894) was the oldest of eight children born to President of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and First Lady Margaret Lea Houston, and was the only of the children born in the Republic of Texas, before its December 29, 1845 annexation to the United States.
Eliza Allen (January 27, 1826 – after 1851) was an American writer from Maine who, in 1851, published a memoir called The Female Volunteer; Or the Life and Wonderful Adventures of Miss Eliza Allen, A Young Lady of Eastport, Maine.