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President: Took office: Left office: Notes: David G. Burnet: 1836 1836 Burnet County; (acting) Vice-president of Texas under Lamar, U.S. Senator-Elect 1866. Sam Houston: 1836 1838 Houston; Houston County; also served as Governor and U.S. Senator, and formerly in Tennessee as Governor and U.S. Representative. Referred to as the first President ...
As a former president of Texas, Houston is the only former foreign head of state to have served in the U.S. Congress. [ citation needed ] He was the first person to serve as the governor of a state and then be elected to the U.S. Senate by another state.
President in: The West Wing (television series) A former mayor and three-term congressman from Houston, Texas.; Santos is married to Helen Santos and has two children. He is preparing to retire from politics when he is approached by Josh Lyman about a presidential campaign.
Twenty-one states have the distinction of being the birthplace of a president. One president's birth state is in dispute; North and South Carolina (British colonies at the time) both lay claim to Andrew Jackson, who was born in 1767 in the Waxhaw region along their common border. Jackson himself considered South Carolina his birth state.
Two weeks after leaving the White House, Joe Biden has already lined up representation. The Los Angeles-based Creative Artists Agency, which also represents former President Barack Obama and wife ...
White Dwarf is a 1995 American science fiction thriller television film directed by Peter Markle and starring Paul Winfield, Neal McDonough, CCH Pounder, Beverley Mitchell, David St. James, Ele Keats, and James Morrison.
He cited alleged censorship by the U.S. government over the past four years and praised Texas as a state less plagued by bias than California. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other leaders are using ...
[2] [3] In some respects, it is the lieutenant governor of Texas, who presides over the Texas Senate, who possesses greater influence to exercise their prerogatives. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Rick Perry is the longest-serving governor, having assumed the governorship in 2000 upon the exit of George W. Bush , who resigned to take office as the 43rd president ...