New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 1, Part 47

Author: Davis, Ellis A.
Publication date: 1926
Publisher: Dallas, Tex. : Texas development bureau, [1926?]
Number of Pages: 1416

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MEN OF TEXAS

N the preceding pages we have cov- ered in detail the history, the re- sources and industries of Texas. Special articles from the pens of many of the most eminent men and women of the State who are recognized as authorities on the subjects treated, have dealt with facts re- garding nearly every phase of life and indus- try of Texas as a state, as well as of the lead- ing cities and centers of industry, in an inter- esting and comprehensive manner. These ar- ticles are appropriately illustrated with pic- tures of historic interest and a large number of views showing the scenic beauty as well as the commercial and industrial progress. This is followed by a complete summary of the principal facts of interest regarding every city, town and county of Texas, supplemented with carefully indexed maps showing rail- roads, electric lines and automobile highways, as well as geographic, topographic and politi- cal divisions.

The following department of the Encyclo- pedia is devoted to the biographical sketches of men and women of Texas who have had a part in the making of Texas history, as well as those who today represent the political, professional, commercial and industrial life of the state.

HENAY SMITH

ANSON JONES 1': PRES 1844 46

PINCKNEY HENDERSON ILI GOV. 1846-47

P. HANSBORO BELL 3ºC GOV 1849 -55

MIRAREAU R LAMAR

GEORGE T. WOOD 2=P GOV 18 47- 49

A. J. HAMILTON IOTr GOV. 1865-66

PENDLETON MURRAH 9H GOV. 1863-65

EDWARD CLARKE TIN CỔV. 1861

FRANK R.LUBBOCK 81 GOV. - 1861-63

1W THROCKMORTON

COMUNO J. DAVIS 18TH GOY 1889-74

RICHARD B. HUBBARD 15 T: GOV. 1876-79

RICHARD COKE 14 : VOY 1674 76

JOHN IRELAND 17 Er COV 1885-87

L. S. ROSS IDI GOV. 1887-91

ORAN M. ROBERTS 16 _ CCV 1879 - 05

J. S. HOGG IOL GOV. 1891-99

C.A.CULBERSON 102 40V 1873-91

S. W TIANHAM

PAT. NEFF 27 !- COV 1921 -

JAS E FERGUSON 29:# GOV 1913 -17

O. B COLQUITT 24 !# GOV 1911-15

T. M CAMPBELL

VV. P.HOBBY 26TH GOV. 1917- 24

SAM HOUSTON IST -3º PRES 1836-8-41-44 ~~ 60V. 1859 -61

ELISHA M PEASE

HARDIN R RUNNELS OT COV 1837-59

JOSEPH D. SAYERS 2151 GOV. 1899-05

Governor of Texas

GOVERNORS OF TEXAS

HENRY SMITH-Governor of the Provisional Government of Texas, November, 1835-March, 1836, was born in 1784 and died in 1851. He came to Texas from Missouri in 1821, was one of the first men to advocate the independence of Texas and was first. governor over Texas as one of the Mexican states. His administration was stormy because the council that had elected him head of the Provisional Government wished Texas to continue as a Mexican state while Henry Smith was for independence. A minority of the council voted to depose him but he refused to retire from his position until the found- ing of the government ad interim which gave a different turn to Texas' affairs and elected a new man.

DAVID G. BURNET-Second Governor of Texas before the Republic was founded, March, 1836- September, 1836, was born in 1788, came to Texas in 1826, and from the Convention of 1833, advo- cated the independence of Texas; upon formation of the government ad interim, the second form of Texas' development in her evolution from a province of Mexico to one of the states in the American Union, he was chosen head of the new regime which in turn was brought to an end with the establish- ment of the Republic of Texas, September, 1836, when the first president was elected. He was vice- president of the republic under Lamar's administra- tion, was secretary of state in 1846, and elected United States senator, 1866. He died on December 5, 1870.

SAM HOUSTON-The first and the third presi- dent of the Republic of Texas, 1836-1838, and 1841- 1844 (due to the fact that the constitution of the new republic forbade a president's holding two con- secutive terms) and sixth governor, 1859-March 16, 1861, was born in Virginia, March 2, 1793, and came to Texas in 1832 after having served as governor of Tennessee, a congressman of that state also, and finally as special representative of President Jack- son to the Indians in which capacity he came to Texas. In 1835 he was elected commander-in-chief of the Texas forces. How he displayed rare general- ship in this capacity as he had previously done in the United States army, and won the Battle of San Jacinto against the Mexicans at great odds, thereby settling forever the matter of Texas' independence, is known to all students of history. He was chosen first president of the Republic of Texas, which was the first election by the people, Governor Smith of the Provisional Government and Governor Burnet of the Government ad interim having been chosen by a small council. He was elected to his second term as president by the people as soon as the constitution allowed. He was elected as Texas State Senator to the United States in 1846, 1847, and 1851, and was chosen governor of Texas in 1859 but resigned the position as Texas joined the Confederacy, a measure he opposed. He was for thirty years, from 1832, the date of his coming to Texas, to 1863, the date of his death, one of the colossal figures of Texas his- tory, in her three forms, a province of Mexico, a Republic, a State in the American Union.

MIRABEAU B. LAMAR-The second president of the Republic of Texas, 1838-1841, was born in Georgia, 1798 and settled in Texas in 1835. He-had served as secretary of war during the government ad interim, vice-president under Houston's first ad-

ministration as president of the Republic, a gallant commander in the Mexican war following the an- nexation of Texas to the United States, and later still as United States minister to Argentine. He was noted for his courtly manners, distinguished bearing and literary ability. He died in 1859.

ANSON JONES-Fourth president of the Republic of Texas (Sam Houston being the third as well as the first), 1844-1846, was born in Massachusetts, 1798; he came to Texas in 1833 and from the first was a champion of Texan independence. Before his election to the presidency he had served as a member of the Texan Congress, minister to the United States and secretary of state. At the an- nexation of Texas to the Union, which occurred be- fore his term as president had expired, he retired to his plantation, occupied himself with his pro- fessional and literary duties till his death in 1858.

J. PINCKNEY HENDERSON-First governor of the American State of Texas, February 16, 1846- December 21, 1847, was born in 1809 and died in 1858. He came to Texas in 1836, bringing from Mississippi a regiment of volunteers to fight for Texas independence. He was a great orator, ren- dered invaluable service in raising troops for Texas in the United States and was attorney-general under Houston in 1837 served as special minister to Eng- land and France, and in 1844, minister to the United States. At the close of his first term as governor, he refused to stand for re-election. He was later elected to the United States Senate.

GEORGE T. WOOD-Second governor of Texas, 1847-1849, was born in Georgia and removed to Texas in 1836. Little is known of his private life. He served several terms as a member of the Texas Congress, was an officer in the Mexican war, and for some time brigadier-general of the militia. In 1847 he was elected governor and upon the expira- tion of his term of office he retired to private life where he died, in Panola County, in 1856.

PETER HANSBORO BELL-Third governor of the State of Texas, 1849-1853, born in Virginia, 1810, came to Texas in 1836. He distinguished him- self in the battle of San Jacinto, and after holding several offices under the Republic of Texas, entered the Mexican war as colonel of volunteers. In 1849 he was made governor and near the close of his second term he was elected to congress. At the end of his second congressional term he married and settled in North Carolina where he resided until his death in 1898. In 1891, seven years before his death, though he had been a resident citizen of North Carolina for some years, the Texas legislature voted him a liberal donation of Texas lands as a reward for his excellent services in the three stages of the state's existence-in revolutionary days, under the Republic and as a state in the Union.

ELISHA MARSHALL PEASE-Fourth governor of the State of Texas, 1853-1857, was born in Con- necticut, 1812, and came to Texas in 1835. He soon attained recognition of the public in services ren- dered in minor offices under the provisional govern- ment and later under the government ad interim. He won state-wide fame as author of the laws regu- lating proceedings in the district courts and as chairman of the judiciary committee originating the probate laws of 1848. In 1850 he was elected to the state senate and in 1853 to the governorship.

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After the Civil War, in 1867, he was again made governor of the state by appointment by General Sheridan, but after two years' service as provisional governor in reconstruction days, resigned because of a misunderstanding between him and the military commander of the district. Governor Pease died in 1883.

HARDIN R. RUNNELS-Fifth governor of the State of Texas, 1857-1859, came to Texas in 1841 or 1842 from Mississippi and soon became repre- sentative of Bowie County in the legislature, from 1853 to 1855, serving as speaker of the House of Representatives. In 1857 he was elected governor of the state after having served as lieutenant-governor. After the expiration of his term of office Governor Runnels retired to his plantation in Bowie County where he died in 1873.

EDWARD CLARK-Seventh governor of the State, 1861, from March to December, was born in 1818 in Georgia but became a citizen of Texas in 1843. He was a member of the Constitutional Con- vention in 1845, secretary of the house in the first Texas legislature, senator in the second, secretary of state under Governor Pease, and lieutenant-gov- ernor under General Houston, who was the sixth governor of the state, as well as twice president of the Republic. Governor Houston did not favor Texas' joining the Confederacy, therefore he volun- tarily resigned his office as the sixth governor which promoted Mr. Clark, the lieutenant-governor, to the governorship of Texas for the ten months of Governor Houston's unexpired term. Governor Clark died at his home in Marshall, Texas, in 1880.

FRANCIS R. LUBBOCK-Eighth governor of Texas, 1861-1863, was born in South Carolina in 1815 and removed to Texas in 1836. He was made comptroller of the republic by President Houston, and appointed to the same office a second time by President Houston in his second administration. In 1861 he was elected governor; he refused to be a candidate for a second term, choosing rather to enter the Confederate army with the 90,000 Texans he had assisted in putting in the field. After a brilliant career under various generals, he was offered a place on the staff of President Davis. An intimate and lasting friendship sprang up between the former Texas governor and the Confederate presi- dent and Mr. Lubbock was with President Davis when the two were taken prisoners by the Federal government. They had seven months' prison life together. In 1878 ex-Governor Lubbock was elected state treasurer, a position he held for thirteen years, until 1891. He died at his home in Austin, in 1905.

PENDLETON MURRAH-Ninth governor of Texas, a native of South Carolina, came to Texas from Alabama in early manhood, exact date not known, and in 1857 was elected representative of Harrison County in the state legislature. In 1863 he was made governor. When the Confederacy sur- rendered he fled to Mexico where he died, at Monterey, in 1865.

ANDREW JACKSON HAMILTON-Tenth gov- ernor of Texas, 1865-1866, a native of Alabama, came to Texas in 1846. Three years later he was made attorney-general of the state under Governor Bell. In 1851 and in 1853, he was elected to the legislature from Travis County. In 1859 he was elected to congress. He opposed secession from the Union and as Texas withdrew, he retired to Mexico, thence to the northern states and served in the Civil

War as brigadier-general of Texas troops in the Federal army. He became governor of Texas by virtue of appointment by President Johnson, in 1865, and in the following year was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court. He died at his home in Austin in April, 1875.

JAMES W. THROCKMORTON-Eleventh gov- ernor of Texas, 1866-1867, came to Texas in 1841 from the state of Tennessee where he was born in 1825. In 1851 he was elected to the legislature where he served for several terms; he opposed secession but was firm in standing by his state and was a faithful soldier in the Confederate army. He was rendering invaluable service to the state in reconstruction days when General Sheridan, the military commander of the district Texas was in, suddenly removed him from the governor's chair. In 1874-78, he served as congressman. He died in 1894 at his home in Mckinney, Texas.

ELISHA M. PEASE-Twelfth governor, 1867- 1869, was fourth governor also, in which order his sketch is given.

EDMUND J. DAVIS-Thirteenth governor of Texas, 1870-1874, a native of Florida, began his residence in Texas in 1848 and held various offices of trust until 1861 when he entered the Union army. In 1869 he was elected governor. At the expiration of his second term of office he resumed his law practice at Austin where he died in 1883.

RICHARD COKE-Fourteenth governor of Texas, 1874-1876, was born in Virginia in 1829; in 1850 he located near Waco, Texas, and was soon chosen as a district judge. He entered the Southern army as private, came out as captain. In 1866 he became associate justice of the Supreme Court but was re- moved as impediment to reconstruction. In 1876 he was elected United States senator, an office he held for eighteen years. In 1895 he refused a further candidacy, retired to private life and died at his Waco home in 1897.

RICHARD B. HUBBARD-Fifteenth governor of the Lone Star State, 1876-1879, after graduating from Mercer University of Georgia, his native state, the University of Virginia and Harvard University with literary and law degrees, came to Texas in 1853 and settled at Tyler where his eloquence soon won for him the title of "Young Demosthenes." In 1856 he was a member of the National Democratic Convention, soon afterwards was made United States attorney for western Texas, then entered the legis- lature. In the Civil War he was a Confederate colonel. In 1873 he was elected lieutenant governor and upon resignation of Governor Coke he suc- ceeded to the governor's chair. Governor Hubbard was one of the most celebrated speakers of his day, his ability as such being in demand throughout the nation, in campaign speaking, as well as in his own state. In 1885 he was appointed minister pleni- potentiary of Japan. He died at Tyler, Texas, 1901.

ORAN M. ROBERTS-Born. in South Carolina, 1815, came to Texas in 1841 and from 1879 to 1883 served as our sixteenth governor. He had previously held the offices of district attorney, district judge, justice of the Supreme Court-prior to the Civil War-colonel in the Confederate army, chief justice of Texas, 1864, United States senator, 1866, and in 1874 again made chief justice. From this latter position he resigned to become governor of Texas. After his governorship expired he was chosen pro-

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fessor in the law department of the University of Texas. He resigned this position in 1893, died in 1898.

JOHN IRELAND-Seventeenth governor of Texas, 1883-1887, a native of Kentucky, was born in 1827 and. came to Texas in 1853. He served as dis- trict judge, member of both houses of the state legislature, and became one of the supreme judges. In 1882 and in 1884 he was nominated governor of Texas by acclamation. He retired to Seguin, his home town, in 1887 where he resumed the practice of law. He died in 1896.

LAWRENCE S. ROSS-Eighteenth governor of Texas, 1887-1891, came to Texas in 1839 from Iowa where he was born in 1838. In early youth, during summer vacations from college, he won far-reaching fame as a fighter of Indians, subduing the Com- anches some years later. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1875, was elected to the state senate in 1881 and chosen governor in 1886 and in 1888. At the expiration of his second term he was made president of the Texas A. & M. College, at Bryan, where he died in 1898.

JAMES STEPHEN HOGG-Nineteenth governor of Texas, 1891-1895, was the first native of Texas to fill the governor's office. He was born in 1851, at Rusk, left an orphan at the age of twelve, was self-made, became a publisher and editor of ability and in 1875 took up the practice of law. The suc- cessive offices of justice of the peace, county at- torney, district attorney, attorney-general and then governor, indicate his rise in state services. His constructive policies as governor met with sharp opposition and he was perhaps the most criticised executive of the state in certain circles in the term of his office. But he was a true statesman and when he died in 1906, his remains were taken to the senate chamber where they lay in state and leaders from every section attended the funeral.

CHARLES A. CULBERSON-Twentieth governor of the state, 1895-1899, was born in Alabama in 1855. His father, Hon. David B. Culberson, moved to Texas in 1857 and for many years was a leading member of congress and one of the most able jurists of our country. Charles A. Culberson, after serving as county attorney of Marian County, moved to Dallas in 1888, was attorney-general from 1891 to 1895, governor for two terms and in 1899 was elected United States senator in which capacity he serves to this day. He has the honor of having won in every contest before the people in his many years of service and is yet at the forefront in state and national service.

JOSEPH D. SAYERS-The twenty-first governor of Texas, 1899-1903, came to Texas in 1851 from Mississippi at the age of ten. He was soldier, school teacher, lawyer. In 1873 he was elected state senator; in 1879 and 1880 he was lieutenant-gov- ernor; from 1884 to 1899 he was in congress, serving for twelve years upon the committee of appropria- tions and part of the time chairman of the com- mittee.

S. W. T. LANHAM-Twenty-second governor of Texas, 1903-1907, born in South Carolina, July 4, 1846, came to Texas in 1866. He was a self-made man, having his first and only teacher when he was fifteen and to whom he never tired in pay- ing tributes. In 1869 he was admitted to the bar; he became district attorney and then served as congressman for sixteen years, doing valuable work

on the judiciary committee. At the expiration of his terms as governor, 1903-1907, he retired to his home at Weatherford where he died in 1908.

THOMAS MITCHELL CAMPBELL-Twenty- third governor of Texas, 1907-1911, the second native Texan to rise to the office of governor, was born in 1856 at Rusk, Texas. In 1878 he began the practise of law; in 1891 he was made receiver for the I. & G. N. Ry. and moved to Palestine, Texas; two years later he was made general manager of this railway but resigned in 1897 to resume his law practice. He enjoys the distinction of being the first Texan who never held any public office until chosen governor of the state.

OSCAR BRANCH COLQUITT-Twenty-fourth governor of Texas, 1911-1915, was a native of Georgia where he was born in 1861. He came to Texas in 1878 and began his career as an employee of a railway, then in the manufacturing business, next in the banking world and then as editor and publisher. After being admitted to the bar he was elected as state senator from Kaufman, Navarro and Henderson counties, then was made railroad com- missioner and in 1910 and in 1912 was elected to the governor's chair. He now resides at Dallas.

JAMES E. FERGUSON-The twenty-fifth gov- ernor of Texas, 1915-1917, was born near Temple, Texas, in 1871. He was inaugurated governor of Texas in 1914 and in his second term had twenty- one charges of malfeasance and corruption in office laid to his charge; the senate sustained ten of the twenty-one charges, mainly by a vote of 27 to 4, September 22, 1917. The expulsion of Governor Ferguson from office forever disbars him from holding office in this state again.

WILLIAM PETTUS HOBBY-Twenty-sixth gov- ernor, 1917-1921, was born in Polk County, Texas, in 1878. Soon after affiliating himself with the Houston Post he attained leadership in the news- paper world. In 1913 and in 1915 he was chosen lieutenant-governor under Mr. Ferguson as governor and upon the latter's impeachment succeeded to the governor's chair September 1, 1917, and at the expiration of that term was elected governor.

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New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 1, Part 47

Author: Davis, Ellis A. Publication date: 1926 Publisher: Dallas, Tex. : Texas development bureau, [1926?] Number of Pages: 1416

Author: Davis, Ellis A.
Publication date: 1926
Publisher: Dallas, Tex. : Texas development bureau, [1926?]
Number of Pages: 1416