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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Travis County, Tex.</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Gregory — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in Crawfordsville (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ZZ-born.html">unknown county</a>), Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/11-06.html">November 6, 1861</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/TX.html">1904</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/TX.html">1912</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/officers.html">Honorary Vice-President</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Attorney General</a>, 1914-19. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-tau-omega.html">Alpha Tau Omega</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in his room at the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a> Pennsylvania, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/02-26.html">February 26, 1933</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 112 days</a>). Interment somewhere. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Francis Robert Gregory and Mary Cornelia (Watt) Gregory; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/02-22.html">February 22, 1893</a>, to Julia Nalle.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Gregory Gymnasium (built 1930), a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-stadia.html">sports arena</a> at the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> of Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-names.html">Austin, Texas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Watt Gregory">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/381/000167877">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06263">Austin Memorial Park</a> 2800 Hancock Drive Austin, Travis County, Texas Founded 1927 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2187&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Rumsey Beverley (1894-1967) — also known as James R. Beverley — of San Juan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PR/SJ-lived.html">San Juan Municipio</a>, Puerto Rico. Born in Dalhart, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DL-born.html">Dallam County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/06-15.html">June 15, 1894</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PR/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Puerto Rico</a>, 1929, 1932-33. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">myocardial failure</a>, in Seton <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/06-17.html">June 17, 1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 2 days</a>). Interment at Austin Memorial Park. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Beverley and Clara Eleanor (Hendricks) Beverley; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/06-20.html">June 20, 1925</a>, to Mary Smith Jarmón; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/portland-posley.html#621.47.37">Thomas Lloyd Posey</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/38588991">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Christian Eckhardt (1913-2001) — also known as Bob Eckhardt — of Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-lived.html">Harris County</a>, Tex. Born in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-born.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/07-16.html">July 16, 1913</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1959-66; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 8th District, 1967-81; defeated, 1980. Author of the War Powers Act and the Toxic Substances Act. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">hemorrhagic stroke</a>, in Seton <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2001/11-13.html">November 13, 2001</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 120 days</a>). Interment at Austin Memorial Park. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wrightson-wyant.html#066.22.95">Harry McLeary Wurzbach</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kittredge-kleier.html#905.80.88">Rudolph Kleberg</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kittredge-kleier.html#276.86.94">Richard Mifflin Kleberg, Sr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10775.html">Kleberg-Wurzbach family</a> of Texas.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000035">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403730">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6000752">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Albert Michener (1907-1997) — also known as James A. Michener — Born in Doylestown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BU-born.html">Bucks County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/02-03.html">February 3, 1907</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">author</a>; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pulitzer-prize.html">Pulitzer Prize</a> in Literature, 1948; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 8th District, 1962; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Medal of Freedom</a>, 1977. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1997/10-16.html">October 16, 1997</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 255 days</a>). Interment at Austin Memorial Park; cenotaph at <a href="#cms01455">Texas State Cemetery</a>. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/">1935</a> to Patti Koon; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/">1948</a> to Vange Nord; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/">1955</a> to Mari Yoriko Sabusawa.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "Traveler, Citizen, Writer."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James A. Michener">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3132">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Walter Angus Keeling (1873-1945) — also known as W. A. Keeling — of Groesbeck, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/LM-lived.html">Limestone County</a>, Tex.; Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in Kosse, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/LM-born.html">Limestone County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/11-22.html">November 22, 1873</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/LM-officials.html">Limestone County Attorney</a>, 1898-1902; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/LM-officials.html">Limestone County Judge</a>, 1908-12; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/TX.html">Texas Democratic State Executive Committee</a>, 1908-10; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/attygn.html">Texas state attorney general</a>, 1921-25; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/TX.html">1928</a>; president, Acme <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Life Insurance</a> Co. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/01-22.html">January 22, 1945</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 61 days</a>). Interment at Austin Memorial Park. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of B. D. Keeling and Mary Lou (Mitchell) Keeling; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/10-01.html">October 1, 1908</a>, to Cora Sue Scott.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/38509161">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00703">Oakwood Cemetery</a> Austin, Travis County, Texas <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Albert Sidney Burleson (1863-1937) — also known as Albert S. Burleson — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in San Marcos, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HY-born.html">Hays County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/06-07.html">June 7, 1863</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a>, 1899-1913 (9th District 1899-1903, 10th District 1903-13); alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/TX.html">1912</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/speakers.html">speaker</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Postmaster General</a>, 1913-21. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/11-24.html">November 24, 1937</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 170 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burket-burnet.html#628.92.74">Edward Burleson Jr.</a> and Emma Lucy (Kyle) Burleson; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/">1889</a> to Adele Lubbock Steiner; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burket-burnet.html#117.02.44">Edward Burleson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12125.html">Burleson family</a> of Austin, Texas.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Albert S. Burleson (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-names.html">Houston, Texas</a>; scrapped 1971) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001110">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402055">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert S. Burleson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6600148">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Anne Legendre Armstrong (1927-2008) — also known as Anne Armstrong; Anne Legendre; Mrs. Tobin Armstrong — of Armstrong, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/KD-lived.html">Kenedy County</a>, Tex. Born in New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-born.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/12-27.html">December 27, 1927</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/TX.html">Texas Republican State Central Committee</a>, 1961-66; delegate to Republican National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/TX.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1968/TX.html">1968</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/TX.html">1972</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/speakers.html">speaker</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/TX.html">vice-chair of Texas Republican Party</a>, 1966-; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/TX.html">Republican National Committee from Texas</a>, 1968-73; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1976-77; candidate for Presidential Elector for Texas. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. Received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> in 1987. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hospice.html">hospice</a> at Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-died.html">Harris County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2008/07-30.html">July 30, 2008</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 216 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Armant Legendre and Olive (Martindale) Legendre; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/04-12.html">April 12, 1950</a>, to Tobin Armstrong.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne Armstrong">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/armstrong-anne-legendre">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/971/000051818">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2551769">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/31715020">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Bache Jr. (1784-1848) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa.; Galveston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GV-lived.html">Galveston County</a>, Tex. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/03-11.html">March 11, 1784</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html#2">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1815-28; served in the Texas Navy during the Texas War of Independence; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a> 11th District, 1846-48. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/03-14.html">March 14, 1848</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 3 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bacha-backstrom.html#869.81.95">Richard Bache</a> and Sarah (Franklin) Bache; brother of Deborah Franklin Bache (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duane-dudkin.html#138.28.12">William John Duane</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/04-04.html">April 4, 1805</a>, to Sophia Burrell Dallas (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#503.24.91">Alexander James Dallas</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#289.37.90">George Mifflin Dallas</a>); father of Alexander Dallas Bache, Mary Blechenden Bache (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker7.html#339.59.21">Robert John Walker</a>) and Sophia Arabella Bache (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irwin.html#508.04.57">William Wallace Irwin</a>); grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/franklin.html#370.29.47">Benjamin Franklin</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irwin.html#156.31.03">Robert Walker Irwin</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brewster.html#818.32.51">Daniel Baugh Brewster</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#707.94.66">Elise du Pont</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fogleson-folse.html#343.91.75">Charles James Folger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#803.40.72">Benjamin Dexter Sprague</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barie-barker.html#203.03.89">Wharton Barker</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1246.html">Thomas-Smith-Irwin family</a> of Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard Bache Jr.">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Thomas Miller (1893-1962) — also known as Tom Miller — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-born.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/09-21.html">September 21, 1893</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/austin.html">Mayor of Austin, Tex.</a>, 1933-49, 1955-61; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/TX.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/TX.html">1944</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/TX.html">1956</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/04-30.html">April 30, 1962</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 221 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Tom Miller <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Dam</a> (completed 1940), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-names.html">Austin, Texas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Elisha Marshall Pease (1812-1883) — also known as Elisha M. Pease — of Galveston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GV-lived.html">Galveston County</a>, Tex. Born in Enfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-born.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/01-03.html">January 3, 1812</a>. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1846-48; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1849-50; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1853-57, 1867-69; defeated, 1866; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/TXcc nGL">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1879. Died in Lampasas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/LP-died.html">Lampasas County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/08-26.html">August 26, 1883</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 235 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/elisha-marshall-pease/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Oscar Branch Colquitt (1861-1940) — also known as Oscar B. Colquitt — of Pittsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CP-lived.html">Camp County</a>, Tex.; Terrell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/KF-lived.html">Kaufman County</a>, Tex. Born in Camilla, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/MT-born.html">Mitchell County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/12-16.html">December 16, 1861</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/oilgas.html">oil business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a> 9th District, 1895-98; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1911-15; defeated, 1906; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Texas</a>, 1916; member, U.S. Board of Railway Labor Mediation. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/03-08.html">March 8, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 83 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Jefferson Colquitt and Ann Elizabeth (Burkhalter) Colquitt; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/12-09.html">December 9, 1885</a>, to Alice Murrell.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/oscar-branch-colquitt/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Morgan Calvin Hamilton (1809-1893) — also known as Morgan C. Hamilton — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born near Huntsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MA-born.html">Madison County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/02-25.html">February 25, 1809</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rswrm.html">Texas Republic Secretary of War and Marine</a>, 1842-43, 1844-45; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn7.html">delegate to Texas state constitutional convention</a>, 1868-69; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Texas</a>, 1870-77. Died in San Diego, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-died.html">San Diego County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/11-21.html">November 21, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 269 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#883.23.55">Andrew Jackson Hamilton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000115">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404997">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Oran Milo Roberts (1815-1898) — of Alabama; Texas. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/LR-born.html">Laurens County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/07-09.html">July 9, 1815</a>. Member of Alabama state legislature, 1839; district judge in Texas, 1846-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/spju.html">justice of Texas state supreme court</a>, 1857-65, 1874-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Texas secession convention</a>, 1861; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn6.html">delegate to Texas state constitutional convention</a>, 1866; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1879-83. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/05-19.html">May 19, 1898</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 314 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/oran-milo-roberts/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alexander Penn Wooldridge (1847-1930) — also known as A. P. Wooldridge — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-born.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/04-13.html">April 13, 1847</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">bank president</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/austin.html">mayor of Austin, Tex.</a>, 1909-19. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/09-08.html">September 8, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 148 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Wooldridge <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a>, in downtown <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-names.html">Austin, Texas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Wooldridge <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Elementary School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-names.html">Austin, Texas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander Penn Wooldridge">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jacob Carl Maria DeGress (1842-1894) — also known as Jacob Carl DeGress — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in Cologne (Köln), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/04-23.html">April 23, 1842</a>. Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sppi.html">Texas superintendent of public instruction</a>, 1871-74; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/austin.html">mayor of Austin, Tex.</a>, 1877-80; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/austin.html#2">Austin, Tex.</a>, 1881-85, 1889-93. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Died, of complications of his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">Civil War wounds</a>, in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/03-21.html">March 21, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 332 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Carl Franz Wilhelm von Gress and Johanna Walburga (di Bramino) von Gress; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/01-01.html">January 1, 1867</a>, to Elizabeth Buckner 'Bettie' Young; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/08-02.html">August 2, 1882</a>, to Willie Mae Johnston.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/63800356">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Stephen Hogg (1851-1906) — also known as Jim Hogg — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WO-lived.html">Wood County</a>, Tex. Born in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/born-log-cabin.html">log cabin</a>, near Rusk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CH-born.html">Cherokee County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/03-24.html">March 24, 1851</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WO-officials.html">Wood County Attorney</a>, 1878-80; District Attorney, 7th District, 1880-84; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/attygn.html">Texas state attorney general</a>, 1886-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1891-95. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/03-03.html">March 3, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 344 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of Ima Hogg.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/JH.html">Jim Hogg County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS James S. Hogg (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-names.html">Houston, Texas</a>; scrapped 1972) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/james-stephen-hogg/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Andrew Jackson Hamilton (1815-1875) — of Texas. Born in Huntsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MA-born.html">Madison County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/01-28.html">January 28, 1815</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/attygn.html">Texas state attorney general</a>, 1850; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1851; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 2nd District, 1859-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1865-66; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/spju.html">justice of Texas state supreme court</a>, 1866; delegate to Republican National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/TX.html">1868</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/TX.html">Republican National Committee from Texas</a>, 1868-70. Slaveowner. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/04-11.html">April 11, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 73 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson1.html#174.79.95">Andrew Jackson</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#837.91.09">Morgan Calvin Hamilton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000103">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404985">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/andrew-jackson-hamilton/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Penn DeNormandie (1824-1881) — also known as William P. DeNormandie — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in Yardley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BU-born.html">Bucks County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/09-28.html">September 28, 1824</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/austin.html">Mayor of Austin, Tex.</a>, 1853; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/austin.html#2">Austin, Tex.</a>, 1865-69. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/11-28.html">November 28, 1881</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 61 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pols-named-for-famous.html">William Penn</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Catherina S. TenEyck.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/145423660">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Hancock (1824-1893) — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born near Bellefonte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/JA-born.html">Jackson County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/10-24.html">October 24, 1824</a>. Democrat. State court judge in Texas, 1851; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1860; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn6.html">delegate to Texas state constitutional convention</a>, 1866; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a>, 1871-77, 1883-85 (4th District 1871-75, 5th District 1875-77, 10th District 1883-85); delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/TX.html">1880</a>. Slaveowner. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/07-19.html">July 19, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 268 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000150">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405032">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4WgfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT135"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/905/80.88.jpg" width=70 height=113 border=0 alt="Rudolph Kleberg"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Rudolph Kleberg (1847-1924) — of Cuero, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DW-lived.html">DeWitt County</a>, Tex. Born in Cat Spring, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/AU-born.html">Austin County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/06-26.html">June 26, 1847</a>. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1883-84; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas</a>, 1885-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 11th District, 1896-1903. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/12-28.html">December 28, 1924</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 185 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kittredge-kleier.html#276.86.94">Richard Mifflin Kleberg, Sr.</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eberhart-eddleman.html#523.72.46">Robert Christian Eckhardt</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10775.html">Kleberg-Wurzbach family</a> of Texas.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000258">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406417">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Autobiographies and Portraits of the President, Cabinet, etc. (1899)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Whitfield Terrell (1803-1846) — also known as George W. Terrell — of Tennessee; Texas. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/NE-born.html">Nelson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/index.html">1803</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1829-36; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ratgn.html">Attorney General of the Texas Republic</a>, 1841-44. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/05-13.html">May 13, 1846</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/42.html">about 42 years</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Col. James Terrell; married to Barbara Ann Culp (who later married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#059.83.66">Joseph Carroll Harrison</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/14139.html">Harrison-Rountree family</a> of Austin, Texas.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Atkins Jefferson McLemore (1857-1929) — also known as A. Jeff McLemore — of Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-lived.html">Harris County</a>, Tex. Born in Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/index.html">1857</a>. Democrat. Member of Texas state legislature, 1890; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a>, 1915-19 (at-large 1915-17, 2nd District 1917-19). Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/index.html">1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">about 72 years</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000554">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407546">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Alexander — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/attygn.html">Texas state attorney general</a>, 1865-66, 1867, 1870-74. Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Gordon Chalmers (1803-1847) — also known as John G. Chalmers — of La Grange, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/FY-lived.html">Fayette County</a>, Tex. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/HX-born.html">Halifax County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/08-25.html">August 25, 1803</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; member of Virginia state legislature, 1830; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rstre.html">Texas Republic Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1841. During a fight with Joshua Holden, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stabbing.html">Stabbed</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">mortally wounded</a>; he died soon after, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/01-01.html">January 1, 1847</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 129 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Ronald Chalmers and Sarah Lanier (Williams) Chalmers; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chalfant-chamberlin.html#206.35.42">Joseph Williams Chalmers</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/">1827</a> to Mary Wade Henderson; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chalfant-chamberlin.html#197.16.57">H. H. Chalmers</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chalfant-chamberlin.html#763.60.72">James Ronald Chalmers (1831-1898)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10246.html">Chalmers family</a> of Mississippi.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nimrod Lindsay Norton (1830-1903) — of Missouri. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/NI-born.html">Nicholas County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/04-18.html">April 18, 1830</a>. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/ccrep.html">Representative from Missouri in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1864-65. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/09-28.html">September 28, 1903</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 163 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ezekiel B. Turner — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/attygn.html">Texas state attorney general</a>, 1867-70. Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nathan George Shelley — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/attygn.html">Texas state attorney general</a>, 1862-64. Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Annie Webb Blanton (1870-1945) — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-born.html">Harris County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/08-19.html">August 19, 1870</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">College professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sppi.html">Texas superintendent of public instruction</a>, 1919-23. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aauw.html">American Association of University Women</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/dar.html">Daughters of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/un-dtrs-confederacy.html">United Daughters of the Confederacy</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-delta-pi.html">Kappa Delta Pi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pi-lambda-theta.html">Pi Lambda Theta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pi-gamma-mu.html">Pi Gamma Mu</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-gamma.html">Delta Kappa Gamma</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/oes.html">Order of the Eastern Star</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/maccabees.html">Maccabees</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">First</a> woman to be elected to statewide office in Texas. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/10-02.html">October 2, 1945</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 44 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Thomas Lindsay Blanton and Eugenia (Webb) Blanton; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#992.52.51">Thomas Lindsay Blanton (1872-1957)</a>.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Martin Walton — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/attygn.html">Texas state attorney general</a>, 1866-67. Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Swante Palm (1815-1899) — also known as Swen Jaensson — of La Grange, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/FY-lived.html">Fayette County</a>, Tex.; Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SW-born.html">Sweden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/01-31.html">January 31, 1815</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/accounting.html">Bookkeeper</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SW-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Sweden & Norway</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-consuls.html">Austin, Tex.</a>, 1866-99; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/austin.html#2">Austin, Tex.</a>, 1869-72. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Swedish</a> ancestry. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/06-22.html">June 22, 1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 142 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/">1854</a> to Agnes Christina Alm.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6993">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/jaensson-swen-swante-palm">Handbook of Texas Online</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jane Y. McCallum (1878-1957) — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/12-30.html">December 30, 1878</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sos.html">Secretary of state of Texas</a>, 1927-33; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/TX.html">1928</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/TX.html">1944</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Found and rescued the original Texas Declaration of Independence. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/08-14.html">August 14, 1957</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 227 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Gibson Swisher (1794-1864) — also known as James G. Swisher — of Texas. Born in Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1794/index.html">1794</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn4.html">Delegate to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention</a> from District of Washington, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rdofi.html">signer, Texas Declaration of Independence</a>, 1836; served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/index.html">1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">about 70 years</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Walton Raglin (1817-1882) — also known as H. W. Raglin — of Texas. Born in Mississippi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/index.html">1817</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rloc.html">Texas Republic Land Office Commissioner</a>, 1840. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/12-07.html">December 7, 1882</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">about 65 years</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Julius Runge (1851-1906) — of Galveston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GV-lived.html">Galveston County</a>, Tex. Born in New Braunfels, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CM-born.html">Comal County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/02-01.html">February 1, 1851</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">Wholesale grocer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/coffee-tea.html">coffee</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">importer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-consuls.html">Consul for Germany</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GV-consuls.html">Galveston, Tex.</a>, 1875-1906; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; president, Galveston <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton</a> Exchange. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died in Galveston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GV-died.html">Galveston County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/02-06.html">February 6, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 5 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/68065362">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Carroll Harrison (1822-1855) — also known as J. C. Harrison — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CH-lived.html">Cherokee County</a>, Tex. Born in Alabama, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/10-03.html">October 3, 1822</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance agent</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">hotel operator</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/horsedrawn.html">livery business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rhse.html">Texas Republic House of Representatives</a>, 1855; died in office 1855. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/11-09.html">November 9, 1855</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/33.html">33 years, 37 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Joseph D. Harrison and Rachel (Lockhart) Harrison; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#749.68.04">Greenbury Horras Harrison</a> and Hannah D. Harrison (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson8.html#475.07.99">Samuel Johnson</a>); married to Barbara Ann Culp (widow of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/templeton-terrill.html#795.33.86">George Whitfield Terrell</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/14139.html">Harrison-Rountree family</a> of Austin, Texas.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Baker (1804-1846) — of Texas. Born in Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1804/index.html">1804</a>. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rhse.html">Texas Republic House of Representatives</a>, 1837-38. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/07-11.html">July 11, 1846</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/42.html">about 42 years</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12741069">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01455">Texas State Cemetery</a> 901 Navasota Street Austin, Travis County, Texas Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1986 <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Bowden Connally Jr. (1917-1993) — also known as John B. Connally — of Fort Worth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TT-lived.html">Tarrant County</a>, Tex. Born near Floresville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WN-born.html">Wilson County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/02-27.html">February 27, 1917</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/TX.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/TX.html">1964</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1963-69; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1971-72; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1980/index.html">1980</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">Shot</a> and wounded in Dallas, Tex., November 22, 1963, in the same volley of gunfire that killed President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John F. Kennedy</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Prosecuted</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribery conspiracy</a> in connection with milk price supports; acquitted. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung.html">pulmonary fibrosis</a>, in Methodist <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-died.html">Harris County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1993/06-15.html">June 15, 1993</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 108 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-buried.html#cms08226">Sam Houston Park</a>, Houston, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Bowden Connally, Sr. and Lela (Wright) Connally.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-bowden-connally/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Connally">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/359/000059182">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0174916">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/4122">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/5926001371/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/363/42.15.jpg" width=70 height=91 border=0 alt="James E. Ferguson"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Edward Ferguson (1871-1944) — also known as James E. Ferguson; "Pa Ferguson" — of Temple, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BL-lived.html">Bell County</a>, Tex. Born near Salado, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BL-born.html">Bell County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/08-31.html">August 31, 1871</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1915-17; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/TX.html">1916</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>); American candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1920. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">embezzlement</a> and other <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> in 1917; soon after, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">impeached</a> by the Texas House, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removed from office</a> by the Texas Senate. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/09-21.html">September 21, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 21 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/12-31.html">December 31, 1899</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferguson.html#384.35.16">Miriam Amanda Wallace</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crane.html#890.35.87">M. M. Crane</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/james-edward-ferguson/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James E. Ferguson">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Library of Congress</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Hemphill (1803-1862) — of Texas. Born in Chester District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CT-born.html">Chester County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/12-18.html">December 18, 1803</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; judge of Texas Republic, 1840; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Texas state supreme court</a>, 1846-58; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Texas</a>, 1859-61; when the Civil War began, he left Washington but did not resign his seat in the Senate; one of ten <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/civil-war-slavery.html">Southern senators</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">expelled</a> in absentia on July 11, 1861; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Texas to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; died in office 1862; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ccsen.html">Senator from Texas in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1861. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-died.html">Richmond</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/01-07.html">January 7, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 20 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Hemphill (1761-1832) and Jane (Lind) Hemphill; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#023.46.80">James Hemphill</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#325.76.70">Robert Reid Hemphill</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#273.57.91">John James Hemphill</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#027.03.16">Robert Witherspoon Hemphill</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#893.09.79">Paul Hemphill Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10150.html">Hemphill family</a> of Chester, South Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HH.html">Hemphill County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000468">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405331">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/18053">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Pinckney Henderson (1808-1858) — also known as J. Pinckney Henderson — of Marshville (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ZZ-lived.html">unknown county</a>), Tex. Born in Lincolnton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/LC-born.html">Lincoln County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/03-31.html">March 31, 1808</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; general in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ratgn.html">Attorney General of the Texas Republic</a>, 1836-37; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rssta.html">Texas Republic Secretary of State</a>, 1837; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn5.html">delegate to Texas state constitutional convention</a>, 1845; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1846-47; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Texas</a>, 1857-58; died in office 1858. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/06-04.html">June 4, 1858</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 65 days</a>). Original interment and cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1930 at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HE.html">Henderson County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS J. Pinckney Henderson (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-names.html">Houston, Texas</a>; collided and burned in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-names.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, 1943) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000481">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405344">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/james-pinckney-henderson/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas William Ward (1807-1872) — also known as "Peg Leg" — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/index.html">1807</a>. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/austin.html">mayor of Austin, Tex.</a>, 1840-41, 1853, 1865; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rloc.html">Texas Republic Land Office Commissioner</a>, 1840-46. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">Lost a leg</a> in the storming of Bexar, 1835; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">lost his right arm</a> while firing a cannon to celebrate Texas independence, 1841. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/typhoid-fever.html">typhoid fever</a>, in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/11-25.html">November 25, 1872</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">about 65 years</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WR.html">Ward County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson (1875-1961) — also known as Ma Ferguson; Miriam Amanda Wallace — of Texas. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BL-born.html">Bell County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/06-13.html">June 13, 1875</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1925-27, 1933-35; defeated in primary, 1926. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart failure</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/06-25.html">June 25, 1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 12 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Joseph Lapsley Wallace and Eliza (Garrison) Wallace; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/12-31.html">December 31, 1899</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferguson.html#363.42.15">James Edward Ferguson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/miriam-amanda-ferguson/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=100317">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel James Moody Jr. (1893-1966) — also known as Dan Moody — of Taylor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WM-lived.html">Williamson County</a>, Tex. Born in Taylor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WM-born.html">Williamson County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/06-01.html">June 1, 1893</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WM-officials.html">Williamson County Attorney</a>, 1920-22; District Attorney, 1922-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/attygn.html">Texas state attorney general</a>, 1925-27; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1927-31; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/TX.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/TX.html">1944</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/TX.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/TX.html">1952</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Texas</a>, 1942. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/05-22.html">May 22, 1966</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 355 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Daniel Moody and Nanny E. (Robertson) Moody; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/04-20.html">April 20, 1926</a>, to Mildred Paxton.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/daniel-j-moody/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=36657">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ralph Webster Yarborough (1903-1996) — also known as Ralph W. Yarborough — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in Chandler, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HE-born.html">Henderson County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/06-08.html">June 8, 1903</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; district judge in Texas, 1936-41; candidate for nomination for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/attygn.html">Texas state attorney general</a>, 1938; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1952, 1954, 1956; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Texas</a>, 1957-71; defeated in primary, 1970, 1972; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/TX.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/TX.html">1980</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html">American Judicature Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ord-coif.html">Order of the Coif</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/acacia.html">Acacia</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1996/01-27.html">January 27, 1996</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/92.html">92 years, 233 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=Y000006">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411940">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/254/000112915">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Ralph W. Yarborough: Patrick L. Cox, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/029271243X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=029271243X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Ralph W. Yarborough, The People's Senator</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edmund Jackson Davis (1827-1883) — also known as Edmund J. Davis — of Texas. Born in St. Augustine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/SJ-born.html">St. Johns County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/10-02.html">October 2, 1827</a>. Republican. District judge in Texas, 1856-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn6.html">delegate to Texas state constitutional convention</a>, 1866; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1870-74; defeated, 1873, 1880; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/TX.html">Republican National Committee from Texas</a>, 1872-74; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 10th District, 1882. After his defeat as Governor, he refused to give up the office, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">barricaded himself</a> in the state capitol. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/02-07.html">February 7, 1883</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 128 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/britton.html#700.32.94">Forbes N. Britton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupper-durgin.html#302.45.06">J. Goldsteen Dupree</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/edmund-jackson-davis/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Edmund J. Davis: Carl H. Moneyhon, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0875654053/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0875654053&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Edmund J. Davis of Texas: Civil War General, Republican Leader, Reconstruction Governor</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Gibbs Gee (c.1925-1994) — of Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-lived.html">Harris County</a>, Tex. Born in Jacksonville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DU-born.html">Duval County</a>, Fla., about 1925. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-ct-apps.html">Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit</a>, 1973-91. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/als.html">amyotrophic lateral sclerosis</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/als.html">Lou Gehrig's disease</a>), at Methodist <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-died.html">Harris County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1994/10-25.html">October 25, 1994</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">about 69 years</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Ireland (1827-1896) — also known as "Oxcart John" — of Texas. Born near Millerstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/GY-born.html">Grayson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/01-21.html">January 21, 1827</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/seguin.html">Mayor of Seguin, Tex.</a>, 1858; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Texas secession convention</a>, 1861; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn6.html">delegate to Texas state constitutional convention</a>, 1866; district judge in Texas, 1866-67; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1870; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1870; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/spju.html">justice of Texas state supreme court</a>, 1875-76; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a>, 1878; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/TX.html">1880</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1883-87. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/03-05.html">March 5, 1896</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 44 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS John Ireland (built 1944 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-names.html">Houston, Texas</a>; scrapped 1967) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-ireland/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Peter Hansborough Bell (1812-1898) — also known as Peter H. Bell — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/SP-born.html">Spotsylvania County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/05-12.html">May 12, 1812</a>. Democrat. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1849-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 2nd District, 1853-57; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Died in Littleton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HL-died.html">Halifax County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/03-08.html">March 8, 1898</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 300 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HL-buried.html#cms02248">City Cemetery</a>, Littleton, N.C.; reinterment in 1930 at Texas State Cemetery; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BL-buried.html#cms07838">Courthouse Grounds</a>, Belton, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BL.html">Bell County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BL-names.html">Belton, Texas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000344">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401336">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/peter-hansborough-bell/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Calvin Maples Cureton (b. 1874) — of Meridian, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BQ-lived.html">Bosque County</a>, Tex. Born near Walnut Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BQ-born.html">Bosque County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/09-01.html">September 1, 1874</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1909-12; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/attygn.html">Texas state attorney general</a>, 1919-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Texas state supreme court</a>, 1921-36. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>. Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William E. Cureton and Mary (Odle) Cureton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/04-28.html">April 28, 1901</a>, to Nora Morris.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Hardin Richard Runnels (1820-1873) — of Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BO-lived.html">Bowie County</a>, Tex. Born in Mississippi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/08-30.html">August 30, 1820</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1847-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Texas State House of Representatives</a>, 1853-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Texas</a>, 1855-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1857-59; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/TX.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Texas secession convention</a>, 1861; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn6.html">delegate to Texas state constitutional convention</a>, 1866. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/12-25.html">December 25, 1873</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 117 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BO-buried.html#cms04949">a private or family graveyard</a>, Bowie County, Tex.; reinterment in 1929 at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rugh-rusch.html#289.24.68">Hiram George Runnels</a>; uncle of Cornelia Runnels (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/terry.html#535.15.15">David Smith Terry</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11276.html">Runnels-Terry family</a> of Houston, Texas.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/hardin-richard-runnels/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alexander Watkins Terrell (1827-1912) — also known as Alexander Terrell; Alex Terrell — of Texas. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/PT-born.html">Patrick County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/11-23.html">November 23, 1827</a>. District judge in Texas, 1857-62; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1875-82; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1891-93, 1903-07; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TK-diplomats.html ">Turkey</a>, 1893-97. Died in Mineral Wells, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/PP-died.html">Palo Pinto County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/09-09.html">September 9, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 291 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TL.html">Terrell County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/terrell-alexander-watkins ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/18118">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Andrew Jackson Houston (1854-1941) — of La Porte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-lived.html">Harris County</a>, Tex. Born in Independence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/06-21.html">June 21, 1854</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1892 (Republican), 1910 (Prohibition), 1912 (Prohibition); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Texas</a>, 1941; died in office 1941. Died in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a> at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-died.html">Baltimore</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/06-26.html">June 26, 1941</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 5 days</a>). Originally entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms01520">Abbey Mausoleum</a> (which no longer exists), Arlington, Va.; reinterment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson1.html#174.79.95">Andrew Jackson</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/houston.html#772.03.14">Samuel Houston</a> and Margaret (Lea) Houston.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10732.html">Daniel-Houston family</a> of Texas.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000821">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405668">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew Jackson Houston">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alexander James Patterson (1883-1948) — of Texas. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/04-21.html">April 21, 1883</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/spcj.html">Chief justice of Texas state supreme court</a>, 1941-48. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/01-01.html">January 1, 1948</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 255 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Francis Richard Lubbock (1815-1905) — of Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-lived.html">Harris County</a>, Tex. Born in Beaufort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BA-born.html">Beaufort County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/10-16.html">October 16, 1815</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Texas</a>, 1857-59; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/TX.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1861-63; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trea.html">Texas state treasurer</a>, 1879-91. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/06-22.html">June 22, 1905</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 249 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/francis-richard-lubbock/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Allan Shivers (1907-1985) — also known as Allan Shivers — of Texas. Born in Lufkin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/AN-born.html">Angelina County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/10-05.html">October 5, 1907</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1935-47; major in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Texas</a>, 1947-49; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1949-57; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/TX.html">1952</a>; member, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-theta-phi.html">Delta Theta Phi</a>. Died of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1985/01-14.html">January 14, 1985</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 101 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/allan-shivers/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan Shivers">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/600/000119243">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9363981">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Allan Shivers: Ricky F. Dobbs & Herman J. Obermayer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1585444073/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1585444073&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Yellow Dogs And Republicans: Allan Shivers And Texas Two-party Politics</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edwin Waller (1800-1881) — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/SP-born.html">Spotsylvania County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/11-04.html">November 4, 1800</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn3.html">Delegate to Texas Consultation of 1835</a> from District of Columbia, 1835; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention</a> from District of Brazoria, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rdofi.html">signer, Texas Declaration of Independence</a>, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rpogn.html">Texas Republic Postmaster General</a>, 1839; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/austin.html">mayor of Austin, Tex.</a>, 1840; county judge in Texas, 1844; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Texas secession convention</a>, 1861. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/01-03.html">January 3, 1881</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 60 days</a>). Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in 1928 at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WL.html">Waller County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Jarrell Pickle (1913-2005) — also known as J. J. 'Jake' Pickle — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in Roscoe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/NO-born.html">Nolan County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/10-11.html">October 11, 1913</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; one of the founders of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">radio station</a> KVET, in Austin, Texas; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 10th District, 1963-95. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2005/06-18.html">June 18, 2005</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/91.html">91 years, 250 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000328">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408725">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/420/000041297">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11205905">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ann Richards (1933-2006) — also known as Dorothy Ann Willis — of Texas. Born in Lakeview (now part of Lacy Lakeview), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ML-born.html">McLennan County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/09-01.html">September 1, 1933</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-officials.html">Travis County Commissioner</a>, 1976-82; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trea.html">Texas state treasurer</a>, 1983-91; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/TX.html">1988</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/speakers.html">speaker</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1991-95; defeated, 1994. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stomach-cancer.html">esophageal cancer</a>, in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2006/09-13.html">September 13, 2006</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 12 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Cecil Willis and Iona (Warren) Willis; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/">1953</a> to David Richards; mother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/richards.html#380.98.04">Cecile Richards</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The Ann Richards <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">School</a> for Young Women Leaders, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-names.html">Austin, Texas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/dorothy-ann-willis-richards/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/699/000023630">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0723955">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/15724992">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by Ann Richards: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0681825130/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0681825130&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Straight from the Heart : My Life in Politics and Other Places</a> (1990) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452284120/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0452284120&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">I'm Not Slowing Down : Winning My Battle With Osteoporosis</a>, with Richard U. Levine</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Ann Richards: Mike Shropshire and Frank Schaeffer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1559722320/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1559722320&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Thorny Rose of Texas : An Intimate Portrait of Governor Ann Richards</a> — Celia Morris, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684193280/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684193280&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Storming the Statehouse : Running for Governor with Ann Richards and Dianne Feinstein</a> — Sue Tolleson-Rinehart and Jeanie R. Stanley, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0292770669/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0292770669&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Claytie and the Lady : Ann Richards, Gender, and Politics in Texas</a> — Jan Reid, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0292719647/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0292719647&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Abner Smith Lipscomb (1789-1856) — Born in South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/02-10.html">February 10, 1789</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/trlg.html">Alabama territorial legislature</a>, 1818; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/spaj.html">associate justice of Alabama state supreme court</a>, 1820-35; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rssta.html">Texas Republic Secretary of State</a>, 1840; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn5.html">delegate to Texas state constitutional convention</a>, 1845; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/spju.html">justice of Texas state supreme court</a>, 1846-56. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/12-08.html">December 8, 1856</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 302 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/LC.html">Lipscomb County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Womack Heath (1903-1971) — also known as William W. Heath — of Texas. Born in Normangee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/LE-born.html">Lee County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/12-07.html">December 7, 1903</a>. Democrat. County judge in Texas, 1931-33; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Texas</a>, 1933-35; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/TX.html">1964</a>; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SW-diplomats.html ">Sweden</a>, 1967-69. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1971/06-27.html">June 27, 1971</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 202 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/heath-william-womack ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Royal Tyler Wheeler (1810-1864) — of Texas. Born in Vermont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/index.html">1810</a>. District judge in Texas, 1844; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/spju.html">justice of Texas state supreme court</a>, 1845-64; died in office 1864. Died by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">suicide</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WA-died.html">Washington County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/04-09.html">April 9, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">about 53 years</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WE.html">Wheeler County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jack English Hightower (1926-2013) — also known as Jack Hightower — of Texas. Born in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HL-born.html">Hall County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/09-06.html">September 6, 1926</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1953-54; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1965-74; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/TX.html">1968</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 13th District, 1975-85; defeated, 1961, 1984; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/spju.html">justice of Texas state supreme court</a>, 1988, 1992-95. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2013/08-03.html">August 3, 2013</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 331 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000582">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405444">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836) — also known as Stephen F. Austin; "Father of Texas" — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WY-born.html">Wythe County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/11-03.html">November 3, 1793</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/trlg.html">Missouri territorial legislature</a>, 1814-19; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn1.html">delegate to Texas Convention of 1832</a> from District of San Felipe de Austin, 1832; took petition to Mexico City for the establishment of Texas as a separate Mexican state, 1832; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">attempting revolution</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">imprisoned</a> until 1835; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to Texas Convention of 1833</a> from District of Austin, 1833; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn3.html">delegate to Texas Consultation of 1835</a> from District of San Felipe de Austin, 1835; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rpres.html">President of the Texas Republic</a>, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rssta.html">Texas Republic Secretary of State</a>, 1836; died in office 1836. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BZ-died.html">Brazoria County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/12-27.html">December 27, 1836</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 54 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BZ-buried.html#cms04656">Peach Point Cemetery</a>, Gulf Prairie, Tex.; reinterment in 1910 at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Moses Austin and Maria (Brown) Austin.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/AU.html">Austin County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-names.html">Austin, Texas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Stephen F. Austin <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">State University</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/NA-names.html">Nacogdoches, Texas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Austin <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">College</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GY-names.html">Sherman, Texas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen F. Austin">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/328/000050178">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/austin-stephen-fuller">Handbook of Texas Online</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Stephen F. Austin: Gregg Cantrell, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300090935/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300090935&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Stephen F. Austin : Empresario of Texas</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joe Madison Kilgore (1918-1999) — also known as Joe M. Kilgore — of McAllen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HG-lived.html">Hidalgo County</a>, Tex.; Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born near Brownwood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BW-born.html">Brown County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/12-10.html">December 10, 1918</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1947-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 15th District, 1955-65; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/TX.html">1956</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1999/02-10.html">February 10, 1999</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 62 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000177">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406340">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Ray Harrison Sr. (1930-2001) — of Pasadena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-lived.html">Harris County</a>, Tex. Born in Abilene, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TA-born.html">Taylor County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/08-02.html">August 2, 1930</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>; elected 1964; defeated, 1998; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/pasadena.html">mayor of Pasadena, Tex.</a>, 1973-78, 1985-93; district judge in Texas, 1978-80. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. Died, of complications following laminectomy surgery, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2001/12-22.html">December 22, 2001</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 142 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Spangler Kaufman (1813-1851) — also known as David S. Kaufman — of Nacogdoches, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/NA-lived.html">Nacogdoches County</a>, Tex. Born in Boiling Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/12-18.html">December 18, 1813</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rhse.html">Texas Republic House of Representatives</a>, 1839-41; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trsn.html">Texas Republic Senate</a>, 1843-45; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 1st District, 1846-51; died in office 1851. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/01-31.html">January 31, 1851</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/37.html">37 years, 44 days</a>). Original interment and cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1932 at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/KF.html">Kaufman County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000021">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406192">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/18039">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/50887466828/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/294/78.87.jpg" width=70 height=111 border=0 alt="Barbara Jordan"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Barbara Charline Jordan (1936-1996) — also known as Barbara Jordan — of Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-lived.html">Harris County</a>, Tex. Born in Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-born.html">Harris County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/02-21.html">February 21, 1936</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1967; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 18th District, 1973-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1988. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lgbt.html">Lesbian</a>. Inducted, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/natl-womens-hof.html">National Women's Hall of Fame</a>, 1990; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/spingarn-medal.html">Spingarn Medal</a> in 1992, and the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> in 1994. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/leukemia.html">leukemia</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/other-diseases.html">multiple sclerosis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1996/01-17.html">January 17, 1996</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 330 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000266">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406158">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara Jordan">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/690/000046552">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/barbara-jordan/">National Women's Hall of Fame</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Barbara Jordan: Mary Beth Rogers, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553380664/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0553380664&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Barbara Jordan : American Hero</a> — Ann Fears Crawford, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931823111/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1931823111&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Barbara Jordan : Breaking the Barriers</a> (for young readers)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Library of Congress</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Vincent Waggoner Carr (1918-2004) — also known as Waggoner Carr — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/LU-lived.html">Lubbock County</a>, Tex. Born in Fairlie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HU-born.html">Hunt County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/10-01.html">October 1, 1918</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/LU-officials.html">Lubbock County Attorney</a>, 1948-50; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1951-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Texas State House of Representatives</a>, 1957-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/attygn.html">Texas state attorney general</a>, 1963-67; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/TX.html">1964</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Texas</a>, 1966; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1968. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>. Breakfasted with Pres. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John F. Kennedy</a>, in Dallas, Texas, on the morning of his assassination, November 22, 1963. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2004/02-25.html">February 25, 2004</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 147 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Vincent Carr and Ruth (Warlick) Carr; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/12-21.html">December 21, 1941</a>, to Ernestine Story.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8456672">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert McAlpin Williamson (1806-1859) — also known as "Three Legged Willie" — of Texas. Born in Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/index.html">1806</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn2.html">Delegate to Texas Convention of 1833</a> from District of Washington, 1833; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn3.html">delegate to Texas Consultation of 1835</a> from District of Mina, 1835; served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rsju.html">justice of Texas Republic supreme court</a>, 1837-40; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rhse.html">Texas Republic House of Representatives</a>, 1840-43, 1844-45; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trsn.html">Texas Republic Senate</a>, 1843-44; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1846-48; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a>, 1849; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Texas</a>, 1851. Due to a deformity developed during an illness when he was 15, causing his right leg to be drawn back at the knee, he wore a partial wooden leg attached at the knee. Died in Wharton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WH-died.html">Wharton County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/12-22.html">December 22, 1859</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">about 53 years</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WM.html">Williamson County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Potter (c.1800-1842) — of Oxford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GR-lived.html">Granville County</a>, N.C. Born near Williamsboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/VA-born.html">Vance County</a>, N.C., about 1800. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a> from Granville County, 1828, 1834; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 6th District, 1829-31; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention</a> from District of Nacogdoches, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rdofi.html">signer, Texas Declaration of Independence</a>, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rsnav.html">Texas Republic Secretary of the Navy</a>, 1836; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trsn.html">Texas Republic Senate</a> from District of Red River and Fannin, 1840-42; died in office 1842. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Resigned</a> from the U.S. Congress in 1831 after <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">maiming</a> two men in a jealous rage; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to six months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Expelled</a> in 1834 from the North Carolina House for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/other-crimes.html">cheating at cards</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a> by members of an opposing faction who surrounded his home, in Harrison County (part now in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MP-died.html">Marion County</a>), Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/03-02.html">March 2, 1842</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/42.html">about 42 years</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MP-buried.html#cms04945">a private or family graveyard</a>, Marion County, Tex.; reinterment in 1928 at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/PT.html">Potter County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000467">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412174">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Ellis (1781-1846) — Born in Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1781/02-14.html">February 14, 1781</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/cncn1.html">Delegate to Alabama state constitutional convention</a>, 1819; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/spaj.html">associate justice of Alabama state supreme court</a>, 1819; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention</a> from District of Red River, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rdofi.html">signer, Texas Declaration of Independence</a>, 1836; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trsn.html">Texas Republic Senate</a> from District of Red River, 1836-39. Slaveowner. Reportedly "came to his death suddenly by his clothes taking <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">fire</a>", at his home in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BO-died.html">Bowie County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/12-20.html">December 20, 1846</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 309 days</a>). Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in 1929 at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/EL.html">Ellis County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Burleson (1798-1851) — of Texas. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-born.html">Buncombe County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/12-15.html">December 15, 1798</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to Texas Convention of 1833</a> from District of Mina, 1833; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn3.html">delegate to Texas Consultation of 1835</a> from District of Mina, 1835; general in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rhse.html">Texas Republic House of Representatives</a>, 1837-38; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trsn.html">Texas Republic Senate</a> from District of Bastrop, Gonzales and Fayette, 1838-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rvp.html">Vice President of the Texas Republic</a>, 1841-44; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rpres.html">President of the Texas Republic</a>, 1844; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1846-51; died in office 1851. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/12-26.html">December 26, 1851</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 11 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burket-burnet.html#628.92.74">Edward Burleson Jr.</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burket-burnet.html#403.36.63">Albert Sidney Burleson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12125.html">Burleson family</a> of Austin, Texas.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BR.html">Burleson County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Gordon Cooke (1808-1847) — of Texas. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/fb-born.html">Fredericksburg</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/03-26.html">March 26, 1808</a>. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rhse.html">Texas Republic House of Representatives</a>, 1844-45; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rswrm.html">Texas Republic Secretary of War and Marine</a>, 1845-46; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a>, 1846; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/adgen.html">Adjutant General of Texas</a>, 1846-47; died in office 1847. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/tuberculosis.html">tuberculosis</a>, at Seguin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GD-died.html">Guadalupe County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/12-24.html">December 24, 1847</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">39 years, 273 days</a>). Original interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GD-buried.html#cms04976">somewhere</a> in Geronimo, Tex.; reinterment in 1937 at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Nephew by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nason-nazaire.html#576.47.62">José Antonio Navarro</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11640.html">Navarro family</a> of San Antonio, Texas.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CK.html">Cooke County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cooke <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Avenue</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-names.html">San Antonio, Texas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) — of Texas. Born in Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MA-born.html">Mason County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/02-02.html">February 2, 1803</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; wounded in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/duel-participants.html">duel</a> with Texas Gen. Felix Huston, Februay 7, 1837; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rswar.html">Texas Republic Secretary of War</a>, 1838-40; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">killed</a> while leading his forces at the Battle of Shiloh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HD-died.html">Hardin County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/04-06.html">April 6, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 63 days</a>). He was the highest-ranking officer on either side killed during the war. Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-buried.html#cms02289">St. Louis Cemetery No. 1</a>, New Orleans, La.; reinterment in 1867 at Texas State Cemetery; statue at <a href="# ">South Mall</a>. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Dr. John Johnston and Abigail (Harris) Johnston; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson-johnston.html#833.00.32">Josiah Stoddard Johnston</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/">1829</a> to Henrietta Preston (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#242.74.27">William Preston</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/">1843</a> to Eliza Griffin; grandfather of Henrietta Preston Johnston (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#900.20.06">Henry St. George Tucker</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1352.html">Johnston-Preston family</a> of Kentucky and Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Politician named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehmann-lemp.html#118.59.71">Albert S. J. Lehr</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert Sidney Johnston">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/252/000050102">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/4334">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Washington Smyth (1803-1866) — also known as George W. Smyth — of Jasper, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/JA-lived.html">Jasper County</a>, Tex. Born in North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/05-16.html">May 16, 1803</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn4.html">Delegate to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention</a> from District of Jasper, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rdofi.html">signer, Texas Declaration of Independence</a>, 1836; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rhse.html">Texas Republic House of Representatives</a>, 1844-45; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn5.html">delegate to Texas state constitutional convention</a>, 1845; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 1st District, 1853-55; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn6.html">delegate to Texas state constitutional convention</a>, 1866. Slaveowner. Died in session of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/meetings.html">state constitutional convention</a> in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/02-21.html">February 21, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 281 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000647">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410121">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Bailey Hardeman (1795-1836) — of Texas. Born near Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-born.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/02-26.html">February 26, 1795</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention</a> from District of Matagorda, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rdofi.html">signer, Texas Declaration of Independence</a>, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rstre.html">Texas Republic Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1836. Died in Caney Creek, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MA-died.html">Matagorda County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/10-12.html">October 12, 1836</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 229 days</a>). Original interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MA-buried.html#cms04688">somewhere</a> in Matagorda County, Tex.; reinterment in 1936 at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Hardeman and Mary (Perkins) Hardeman; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hapgood-hardie.html#768.47.76">Thomas Jones Hardeman</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.55.79">Martha Jefferson Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html#745.54.86">John Wayles Eppes</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#591.59.99">John Randolph of Roanoke</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#965.59.53">Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#794.87.46">Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html#454.22.91">Francis Wayles Eppes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#211.37.17">Benjamin Franklin Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#946.12.53">Meriwether Lewis Randolph</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.61.28">George Wythe Randolph</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0736.html">Walker-Randolph family</a> of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HN.html">Hardeman County, Tex.</a> is named partly for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Alexander Greer (1802-1855) — of Texas. Born in Shelbyville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/BE-born.html">Bedford County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/07-18.html">July 18, 1802</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trsn.html">Texas Republic Senate</a> from District of San Augustine, 1838-45; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rstre.html">Texas Republic Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1845-46; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Texas</a>, 1847-51. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/campaigning.html">campaigning</a> for the governorship, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/07-04.html">July 4, 1855</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 351 days</a>). Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in 1929 at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/GE.html">Greer County, Okla.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Guy Morrison Bryan (1821-1901) — also known as Guy M. Bryan — of Galveston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GV-lived.html">Galveston County</a>, Tex. Born in Herculaneum, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/01-12.html">January 12, 1821</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1847-53, 1873, 1879, 1887; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1853-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 2nd District, 1857-59; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/TX.html">1860</a>; major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/06-04.html">June 4, 1901</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 143 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000985">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401937">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Houston Jack (1806-1844) — of Alabama; Texas. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/WK-born.html">Wilkes County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/04-12.html">April 12, 1806</a>. Member of Alabama state legislature, 1829; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rssta.html">Texas Republic Secretary of State</a>, 1836; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rhse.html">Texas Republic House of Representatives</a>, 1839-40; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trsn.html">Texas Republic Senate</a> from District of Brazoria, 1842-44; died in office 1844. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/yellow-fever.html">yellow fever</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BZ-died.html">Brazoria County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/08-20.html">August 20, 1844</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/38.html">38 years, 130 days</a>). Original interment in private or family graveyard; subsequent interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GV-buried.html#cms02169">Lakeview Cemetery</a>, Galveston, Tex.; reinterment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jabar-jackman.html#584.19.20">Patrick Churchill Jack</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/JK.html">Jack County, Tex.</a> is named partly for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Alton Gammage (1938-2012) — also known as Bob Gammage — of Llano, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/LL-lived.html">Llano County</a>, Tex. Born in Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-born.html">Harris County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/03-13.html">March 13, 1938</a>. Democrat. Member of Texas state legislature, 1970; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 22nd District, 1977-79; defeated, 1976, 1978; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/TX.html">2008</a>. Died in Llano, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/LL-died.html">Llano County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2012/09-10.html">September 10, 2012</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 181 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000036">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404412">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ashbel Smith (1805-1886) — also known as "The Father of Texas Medicine" — of Salisbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RO-lived.html">Rowan County</a>, N.C.; Galveston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GV-lived.html">Galveston County</a>, Tex.; Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-lived.html">Harris County</a>, Tex. Born in Hartford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-born.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/08-13.html">August 13, 1805</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; Texas Republic Charge d'Affaires to England and France, 1842-44; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rssta.html">Texas Republic Secretary of State</a>, 1845; negotiated the Smith-Cuevas treaty in 1845, in which Mexico recognized Texas independence; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1855, 1866, 1879; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1872/TX.html">1872</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/TX.html">1876</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>). Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Baytown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-died.html">Harris County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/01-21.html">January 21, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 161 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Moses Smith and Phebe (Adams) Smith.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashbel Smith">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/18178">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Claude Pollard (1874-1942) — of Carthage, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/PN-lived.html">Panola County</a>, Tex.; Kingsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/KB-lived.html">Kleberg County</a>, Tex.; Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-lived.html">Harris County</a>, Tex. Born in Carthage, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/PN-born.html">Panola County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/02-14.html">February 14, 1874</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/PN-officials.html">Panola County Attorney</a>, 1895-98; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/attygn.html">Texas state attorney general</a>, 1927-29; attorney for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">railroads</a>; general counsel for the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railway</a> General Managers Association of Texas. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/11-25.html">November 25, 1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 284 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Hamilton Pollard and Sarah Jane (Davis) Pollard; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/12-27.html">December 27, 1897</a>, to Julia Samuella Newton; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pollack-pomerene.html#424.27.56">David Aris Pollard</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0077.html">Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0402.html">Lewis-Pollard family</a> of Texas (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13412245">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Stephen Heard Darden (1816-1902) — of Wharton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WH-lived.html">Wharton County</a>, Tex. Born in Fayette, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/11-18.html">November 18, 1816</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1850; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ccrep.html">Representative from Texas in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1864-65. Died in Wharton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WH-died.html">Wharton County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/05-16.html">May 16, 1902</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 179 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Washington Darden and Ann (Sharley) Darden; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/02-28.html">February 28, 1837</a>, to Mary Matilda Goff; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/03-24.html">March 24, 1862</a>, to Katherine R. Mayes; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/danielson-darke.html#092.75.97">George Washington Darden</a>.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Hawthorne Phillips (1914-1975) — of Texas. Born in Marlin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/FA-born.html">Falls County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/12-30.html">December 30, 1914</a>. District judge in Texas, 1950; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/spju.html">justice of Texas state supreme court</a>, 1960. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1975/10-23.html">October 23, 1975</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 297 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Crawford Collins Martin — also known as Crawford C. Martin — of Hillsboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HI-lived.html">Hill County</a>, Tex. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1950; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/attygn.html">Texas state attorney general</a>, 1967-72. Interment at Texas State Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jewel Preston Lightfoot — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/attygn.html">Texas state attorney general</a>, 1910-12. Interment at Texas State Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Bullock (1929-1999) — also known as Bob Bullock — of Texas. Born in Hillsboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HI-born.html">Hill County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/07-10.html">July 10, 1929</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>; elected 1956, 1958; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Texas</a>, 1971-72; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/comp.html">Texas state comptroller</a>, 1975-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Texas</a>, 1991-99. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Investigated</a> by a grand jury in 1978, but no indictment resulted. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1999/06-18.html">June 18, 1999</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 343 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Byron M. Tunnell (c.1926-2000) — of Texas. Born about 1926. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1956-64; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Texas State House of Representatives</a>, 1963-64; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/TX.html">1964</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rrco.html">Texas railroad commissioner</a>, 1965-73. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, in Tyler, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/SM-died.html">Smith County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/03-07.html">March 7, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">about 74 years</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jesse James (1904-1977) — of Texas. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/10-10.html">October 10, 1904</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1930; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trea.html">Texas state treasurer</a>, 1941-77. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1977/09-29.html">September 29, 1977</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 354 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Coyle White (1924-1995) — also known as John C. White — of Wichita Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WC-lived.html">Wichita County</a>, Tex. Born near Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CY-born.html">Clay County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/11-26.html">November 26, 1924</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cmagr.html">Texas commissioner of agriculture</a>, 1951-77; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Texas</a>, 1957; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/TX.html">1964</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/index.html">Chairman of Democratic National Committee</a>, 1977-81. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart ailment</a>, at Georgetown University <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1995/01-20.html">January 20, 1995</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 55 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Ed White.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Martin Parmer (1778-1850) — of Missouri; Texas. Born in Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1778/06-04.html">June 4, 1778</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/stsen.html">Missouri state senate</a>, 1824-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn3.html">delegate to Texas Consultation of 1835</a> from District of Tenaha, 1835; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention</a> from District of San Augustine, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rdofi.html">signer, Texas Declaration of Independence</a>, 1836. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/JA-died.html">Jasper County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/03-02.html">March 2, 1850</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 271 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/PR.html">Parmer County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jesse Grimes (1788-1866) — of Texas. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/DP-born.html">Duplin County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1788/02-06.html">February 6, 1788</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn2.html">Delegate to Texas Convention of 1833</a> from District of Washington, 1833; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn3.html">delegate to Texas Consultation of 1835</a> from District of Washington, 1835; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention</a> from District of Washington, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rdofi.html">signer, Texas Declaration of Independence</a>, 1836; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trsn.html">Texas Republic Senate</a>, 1836-37, 1844-45; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rhse.html">Texas Republic House of Representatives</a>, 1841-43. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/03-15.html">March 15, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 37 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GI-buried.html#cms04259">John McGinty Cemetery</a>, Near Navasota, Grimes County, Tex.; reinterment in 1929 at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GI.html">Grimes County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Elizabeth Richards Andujar (1912-1997) — also known as Betty Andujar; Elizabeth Richards — of Fort Worth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TT-lived.html">Tarrant County</a>, Tex. Born in Harrisburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DA-born.html">Dauphin County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/11-06.html">November 6, 1912</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1968/TX.html">1968</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1976/TX.html">1976</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1973-82; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/TX.html">Republican National Committee from Texas</a>, 1976-82. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">First</a> woman member of the Texas Senate; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> Republican member of the Texas Senate since Reconstruction. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1997/06-08.html">June 8, 1997</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 214 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/">1935</a> to John Jose Andujar.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12109549">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.lrl.state.tx.us/scanned/members/photos/large/R/Rangel_Irma_65.jpg"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/729/06.38.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="Irma Rangel"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Irma Lerma Rangel (1931-2003) — also known as Irma Rangel — of Kingsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/KB-lived.html">Kleberg County</a>, Tex. Born in Kingsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/KB-born.html">Kleberg County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/05-15.html">May 15, 1931</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1977-2003 (49th District 1977-82, 37th District 1983-92, 35th District 1993-2002, 43rd District 2003); died in office 2003. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/hispanic.html">Mexican</a> ancestry. In 1976, was the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> Mexican-American woman elected to the Texas House. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/brain-cancer.html">brain cancer</a>, in Brackinridge <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2003/03-18.html">March 18, 2003</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 307 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of P. M. Rangel and Herminia L. Rangel.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href=" http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=227">Texas Legislators Past & Present</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Texas Legislative Reference Library</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Andrew Briscoe (1810-1849) — of Texas. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/CI-born.html">Claiborne County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/11-25.html">November 25, 1810</a>. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention</a> from District of Harrisburg, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rdofi.html">signer, Texas Declaration of Independence</a>, 1836. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/10-04.html">October 4, 1849</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/38.html">38 years, 313 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BC.html">Briscoe County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Donald Campbell (1830-1871) — of Texas. Born in Alabama, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/03-25.html">March 25, 1830</a>. State court judge in Texas, 1868; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn7.html">delegate to Texas state constitutional convention</a>, 1868-69; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1870; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Texas</a>, 1870-71; died in office 1871. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/11-08.html">November 8, 1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 228 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Sterling Clack Robertson (1785-1842) — also known as Sterling C. Robertson — of Texas. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/GL-born.html">Giles County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1785/10-02.html">October 2, 1785</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention</a> from District of Milam, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rdofi.html">signer, Texas Declaration of Independence</a>, 1836; served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trsn.html">Texas Republic Senate</a> from District of Milam, 1836-38. Died in Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MM-died.html">Milam County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/03-04.html">March 4, 1842</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 153 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MM-buried.html#cms04388">Nashville Cemetery</a>, Nashville, Tex.; reinterment in 1936 at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robertson.html#941.28.53">Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson</a>.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Charles Wilson (1818-1860) — of Texas. Born in Yorkshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/08-21.html">August 21, 1818</a>. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1849-50; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1851-53. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Volunteer on the Somervell Expedition in 1842; captured at Mier, Mexico, and held at Perote Prison until his escape in 1843; famed orator in support of Texas annexation to the U.S. and, later, secession to join the Confederacy. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/tuberculosis.html">tuberculosis</a>, at Gonzales, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GZ-died.html">Gonzales County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/02-07.html">February 7, 1860</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 170 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GZ-buried.html#cms05110">Askey Cemetery</a>, Gonzales, Tex.; reinterment in 1936 at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WN.html">Wilson County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Patrick Churchill Jack (1808-1844) — also known as Patrick C. Jack — of Texas. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/WK-born.html">Wilkes County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/index.html">1808</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn1.html">Delegate to Texas Convention of 1832</a> from District of Liberty, 1832; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to Texas Convention of 1833</a> from District of Liberty, 1833; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rhse.html">Texas Republic House of Representatives</a>, 1837-38; judge of Texas Republic, 1841-44. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/yellow-fever.html">yellow fever</a> in Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-died.html">Harris County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/08-04.html">August 4, 1844</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/36.html">about 36 years</a>). Original interment in private or family graveyard; subsequent interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GV-buried.html#cms02169">Lakeview Cemetery</a>, Galveston, Tex.; reinterment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jabar-jackman.html#863.39.78">William Houston Jack</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/JK.html">Jack County, Tex.</a> is named partly for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Jones Hardeman (1788-1854) — of Texas. Born near Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-born.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1788/01-31.html">January 31, 1788</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rhse.html">Texas Republic House of Representatives</a>, 1837-39; judge of Texas Republic, 1843; member of Texas state legislature, 1847-51. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BP-died.html">Bastrop County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/01-15.html">January 15, 1854</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 349 days</a>). Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in 1937 at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Hardeman and Mary (Perkins) Hardeman; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hapgood-hardie.html#392.76.50">Bailey Hardeman</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/">1814</a> to Mary Ophelia Polk (aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#210.42.53">James Knox Polk</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#067.26.29">William Hawkins Polk</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/10-26.html">October 26, 1836</a>, to Eliza DeWitt; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.55.79">Martha Jefferson Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html#745.54.86">John Wayles Eppes</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#591.59.99">John Randolph of Roanoke</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#965.59.53">Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#794.87.46">Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html#454.22.91">Francis Wayles Eppes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#211.37.17">Benjamin Franklin Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#946.12.53">Meriwether Lewis Randolph</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.61.28">George Wythe Randolph</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HR.html">Hardeman County, Tenn.</a> is named for him; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HN.html">Hardeman County, Tex.</a> is named partly for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/18045">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin McCulloch (1811-1862) — also known as Ben McCulloch — of Texas. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/11-11.html">November 11, 1811</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trlg.html">Texas Republic Congress</a>, 1839; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">Killed in the Civil War</a> at Pea Ridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/BE-died.html">Benton County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/03-07.html">March 7, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 116 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MU.html">McCulloch County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Christian Menefee — also known as William Menefee — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn1.html">Delegate to Texas Convention of 1832</a> from District of Lavaca, 1832; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn3.html">delegate to Texas Consultation of 1835</a> from District of San Felipe de Austin, 1835; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention</a> from District of Colorado, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rdofi.html">signer, Texas Declaration of Independence</a>, 1836. Interment at Texas State Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Oliver Jones (1794-1866) — of Texas. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1794/index.html">1794</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rhse.html">Texas Republic House of Representatives</a>, 1837-38; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trsn.html">Texas Republic Senate</a>, 1838-40, 1842-43 (District of Austin and Colorado 1838-40, District of Austin, Colorado and Fort Bend 1842-43). Died in Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-died.html">Harris County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/09-17.html">September 17, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">about 72 years</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-buried.html#cms04260">Episcopal and Masonic Cemetery</a>, Houston, Tex.; reinterment in 1930 at Texas State Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Clarence Moffett (1895-1972) — also known as George Moffett — of Quanah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HN-lived.html">Hardeman County</a>, Tex.; Chillicothe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HN-lived.html">Hardeman County</a>, Tex. Born in Chillicothe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HN-born.html">Hardeman County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/11-20.html">November 20, 1895</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War I; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/TX.html">1928</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/TX.html">1932</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/TX.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/TX.html">1964</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1931-38; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1939-50. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/woodmen.html">Woodmen of the World</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1972/index.html">1972</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">about 76 years</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Wayne Warren Wagonseller (1921-1955) — also known as Wayne W. Wagonseller — of Texas. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MG-born.html">Montague County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/02-01.html">February 1, 1921</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1947-50; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1951-55; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 13th District, 1951. Established a national marathon filibuster record in March, 1955. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/08-13.html">August 13, 1955</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/34.html">34 years, 193 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Forbes N. Britton (d. 1861) — of Texas. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1850. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/02-14.html">February 14, 1861</a>. Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis3.html#285.66.24">Edmund Jackson Davis</a>.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Donley C. Kennard (1929-2011) — also known as Don Kennard — of Fort Worth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TT-lived.html">Tarrant County</a>, Tex. Born in Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-born.html">Harris County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/05-06.html">May 6, 1929</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1953-63; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a> 10th District, 1963-73. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2011/03-17.html">March 17, 2011</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 315 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Jackie Porterfield; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1974/">1974</a> to Mary Jo (Kederis) Williams.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don Kennard">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/67160778">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Lockhart Hunter (1809-1886) — of Texas. Born in Tinkling Spring, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AG-born.html">Augusta County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/06-05.html">June 5, 1809</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rhse.html">Texas Republic House of Representatives</a>, 1839; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trsn.html">Texas Republic Senate</a>, 1843-44. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/10-28.html">October 28, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 145 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Moseley Baker (1802-1848) — of Montgomery, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MN-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ala.; San Felipe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/AU-lived.html">Austin County</a>, Tex.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GV-lived.html">Galveston County</a>, Tex.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-lived.html">Harris County</a>, Tex. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/no-born.html">Norfolk</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/09-20.html">September 20, 1802</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/sthse.html">Alabama state house of representatives</a>, 1829; served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rhse.html">Texas Republic House of Representatives</a>, 1836, 1838-39; defeated, 1841; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trsn.html">Texas Republic Senate</a>, 1842. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/yellow-fever.html">yellow fever</a>, in Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-died.html">Harris County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/11-04.html">November 4, 1848</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">46 years, 45 days</a>). Original interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-buried.html#cms05742">somewhere</a> in Houston, Tex.; reinterment at Texas State Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joe E. Moreno (1964-2005) — of Denver Harbor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-lived.html">Harris County</a>, Tex. Born in Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-born.html">Harris County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/08-12.html">August 12, 1964</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a> 143rd District, 1999-2005; died in office 2005. Killed in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">car accident</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/FY-died.html">Fayette County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2005/05-06.html">May 6, 2005</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">40 years, 267 days</a>). State Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/amick-andersen.html#827.24.49">Rafael Anchia</a> was injured. Interment at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Frank Moreno and Alicia Moreno.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Ellis Johnson (1929-1995) — also known as Bob Johnson — of Texas. Born in Dallas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DA-born.html">Dallas County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/01-15.html">January 15, 1929</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1957-63. Died of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Temple, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BL-died.html">Bell County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1995/03-26.html">March 26, 1995</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 70 days</a>). Interment at Texas State Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Middleton Tate Johnson (1810-1866) — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/index.html">1810</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/trhs.html">Arkansas territorial House of Representatives</a>, 1832; member of Alabama state legislature, 1844; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trsn.html">Texas Republic Senate</a>, 1845; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Texas</a>, 1849; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1851, 1853, 1855, 1857; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Texas secession convention</a>, 1861; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/05-15.html">May 15, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">about 55 years</a>). Original interment at Texas State Cemetery; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TT-buried.html#cms04610">Johnson Plantation Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/JO.html">Johnson County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Other politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Albert Michener (1907-1997) — also known as James A. Michener — Born in Doylestown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BU-born.html">Bucks County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/02-03.html">February 3, 1907</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">author</a>; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pulitzer-prize.html">Pulitzer Prize</a> in Literature, 1948; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 8th District, 1962; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Medal of Freedom</a>, 1977. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1997/10-16.html">October 16, 1997</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 255 days</a>). Interment at <a href="#cms06263">Austin Memorial Park</a>; cenotaph at Texas State Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/">1935</a> to Patti Koon; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/">1948</a> to Vange Nord; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/">1955</a> to Mari Yoriko Sabusawa.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "Traveler, Citizen, Writer."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James A. Michener">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3132">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">South Mall</a> University of Texas, Austin, Travis County, Texas <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) — of Texas. Born in Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MA-born.html">Mason County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/02-02.html">February 2, 1803</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; wounded in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/duel-participants.html">duel</a> with Texas Gen. Felix Huston, Februay 7, 1837; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rswar.html">Texas Republic Secretary of War</a>, 1838-40; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">killed</a> while leading his forces at the Battle of Shiloh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HD-died.html">Hardin County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/04-06.html">April 6, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 63 days</a>). He was the highest-ranking officer on either side killed during the war. Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-buried.html#cms02289">St. Louis Cemetery No. 1</a>, New Orleans, La.; reinterment in 1867 at <a href="#cms01455">Texas State Cemetery</a>; statue at South Mall. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Dr. John Johnston and Abigail (Harris) Johnston; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson-johnston.html#833.00.32">Josiah Stoddard Johnston</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/">1829</a> to Henrietta Preston (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#242.74.27">William Preston</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/">1843</a> to Eliza Griffin; grandfather of Henrietta Preston Johnston (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#900.20.06">Henry St. George Tucker</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1352.html">Johnston-Preston family</a> of Kentucky and Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Politician named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehmann-lemp.html#118.59.71">Albert S. 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