Bastrop County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in Central Texas and its county seat is Bastrop.
Austin County is a rural,agricultural dominated county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census,the population was 30,167. Its seat is Bellville. The county and region was settled primarily by German emigrants in the 1800s.
Brenham is a city in east-central Texas,United States,and the county seat of Washington County,with a population of 17,369 according to the 2020 U.S. census.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar was an American attorney,politician,poet,and leading political figure during the Texas Republic era. He was elected as the second president of the Republic of Texas after Sam Houston. He was known for waging war against bands of Cherokee and Comanche peoples to push them out of Texas,and for establishing a fund to support public education.
James Edward Ferguson Jr.,known as Pa Ferguson,was an American Democratic politician and the 26th governor of Texas,in office from 1915 to 1917. He was indicted and impeached during his second term,forced to resign and barred from holding further Texas office.
Blinn College is a public junior college in Brenham,Texas,with additional campuses in Bryan,Schulenburg,Sealy and Waller. Brenham is Blinn's original and main campus,with housing and athletics.
Pat Morris Neff was an American politician,educator and administrator,and the 28th Governor of Texas from 1921 to 1925,ninth President of Baylor University from 1932 to 1947,and twenty-fifth president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1944 to 1946. He served as Grand Master of Masons in Texas in 1946.
Richard Bennett Hubbard Jr.,occasionally referred to by the nickname Jumbo,was the 16th governor of Texas from 1876 to 1879 and United States Envoy to Japan from 1885 to 1889. He was a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War and was a member of the Democratic Party.
John Ireland was the 18th Governor of Texas from 1883 to 1887. During Ireland's term,the University of Texas was established,and construction on the Texas State Capitol began. Ireland is credited with the selection of local pink granite as the construction material.
Central Texas College (CTC) is a public community college in Killeen,Texas. Founded in 1965,it has branch campuses in Europe and on military installations across the U.S.
The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is an American nonprofit educational and research organization dedicated to documenting the history of Texas. It was founded in Austin,Texas,United States,on March 2,1897. In November 2008,the TSHA moved its offices from Austin to the University of North Texas in Denton,Texas. In 2015,the offices were relocated again to the University of Texas at Austin.
John Martin Thompson was a lumberman,Native American tribal and civic leader,born in the old Cherokee Nation prior to removal in what is now Bartow County,Georgia,USA. He was the son of Benjamin Franklin Thompson,a South Carolinian of Scot-Irish descent,and Annie Martin,a mix blood Cherokee. She was the daughter of Judge John Martin,the first Chief Justice of the Cherokee Nation and Nellie McDaniel.
The Grove is an unincorporated community in Coryell County,Texas,United States. The area is known for its abundance of Texas bluebonnet flowers during the spring. According to the Handbook of Texas,the community had a population of 65 in 2000. It is located within the Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood metropolitan area.
Daniel James Kubiak was an educator and businessman from Rockdale,Texas,who served as a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1969 to 1983 and again from 1991 until his death in 1998. During his tenure in the House,he represented three different districts in Central Texas and was particularly known for his support of public education.
The 1982 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 2,1982,to elect the governor of Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor Bill Clements ran for reelection,but was defeated in the general election by Democrat Mark White,winning 46% of the vote to White's 53%. White was sworn into office on January 18,1983.
Alexander Mack Aikin Jr. was an American politician who served in the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate as a Democrat. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1932,and after serving two terms was elected to the Senate in 1937. In total,he served for 46 years in the two chambers of the Texas Legislature,making him the longest-tenured legislator in the history of Texas at the time of his retirement in January 1979.
The Mount Tabor Indian Community is a cultural heritage group located in Rusk County,Texas. There was a historical Mount Tabor Indian Community dating from the 19th century. The current organization established a nonprofit organization in Texas in 2015.
Eugene Campbell Barker was an American historian at the University of Texas,the managing director of the Texas State Historical Association,and the editor of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. He chaired the history department while soliciting gifts to the university,which he used to build a collection of archives and artifacts. In 1950,the university dedicated the Eugene C. Barker History Center as a repository for his collections. These collections are an important part of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas.
