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Founders of The Republic of Texas

Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836), the "Father of Texas"

Edward Burleson (1798–1851), Texas soldier, general, and statesman

David G. Burnet (1788–1870), interim President of the Republic of Texas

Lorenzo de Zavala (1788–1836), first vice-president of the Republic of Texas and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence

Sam Houston (1793–1863), first President of Republic of Texas, later U.S. Senator from Texas and Governor of Texas

Anson Jones (1798–1858), last President of the Republic of Texas, called the "Architect of Annexation"

Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798–1859), second President of Republic of Texas

Jose Antonio Navarro (1795–1871), Texas statesman, revolutionary and politician

Thomas Jefferson Rusk (1803–1857), Secretary of War between Texas and Mexico, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas and Senator from Texas after admission to the Union.

Edwin Waller (1800–1881) judge, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence






The Texas Revolution/ The Alamo

Jim Bowie (1796–1836), frontiersman, died at the Battle of the Alamo

Davy Crockett (1786–1836), frontiersman and U.S. Congressman, died at the Alamo

James Fannin (1804? –1836), key figure during the Texas Revolution

Benjamin McCulloch (1811–1862), was a soldier in the Texas Revolution, Texas Ranger, U.S. Marshal, and brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States during the American Civil War

Henry Eustace McCulloch (1816–1895), was a soldier in the Texas Revolution, Texas Ranger, and brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States during the American Civil War

Juan Sequin (1806–1890), Tejano hero during the Texas Revolution

William B. Travis (1809–1836), commander of Texas forces at the Alamo






The Civil War

Dick Dowling (1838–1867), commander at Sabine Pass and famous Houstonian

John "Rip" Ford (1815–1897), Texas Rangers legend and commander at the Battle of Palmito Ranch

John Bell Hood (1831–1879), commander of Hood's Texas Brigade and Confederate General

Albert Sydney Johnston (1803–1862), Confederate General and commander of the Confederate western forces

John B. Magruder (1807–1871), Confederate General at the Battle of Galveston

Pleasant Tackitt (1803–1886), Confederate Officer and county official at Fort Belknap, Texas. One of the founders of Parker County, Texas.

Louis T. Wigfall (1816–1874), Confederate General and Senator from Texas, secured the surrender of Fort Sumter








































WWI

Benjamin Foulois, (1879–1967), was a U.S. Army Officer and a pioneering airman.

WWII

Claire Chennault (1893–1958), commander of the "Flying Tigers"

Oveta Culp Hobby (1905–1995), Colonel Women's Army Corps, first secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare

Audie Murphy (1924–1971), World War II hero, actor

Chester Nimitz (1885–1966), commander of Allied naval forces in the Pacific during World War II

James Earl Rudder Hero of D-Day, Commander of the United States Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion. Rudder's U.S. Army Rangers stormed the beach at Pointe du Hoc

Vietnam War

Oliver North (b. 1943), Lieutenant-Colonel USMC Retired, involved in the Iran Contra scandal