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 |
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
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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
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Benjamin Foulois, (1879–1967), was a U.S. Army Officer and a pioneering airman. 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 Oliver North (b. 1943), Lieutenant-Colonel USMC Retired, involved in the Iran Contra scandal
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