San Antonio,officially the City of San Antonio,is a city in and the county seat of Bexar County,Texas,United States. The city is the seventh-most populous in the United States,the second-largest in the Southern United States,and the second-most populous in Texas after Houston. It is the 17th-most populous city in North America,with 1,434,625 residents as of 2020.
The San Antonio River Walk is a city park and special-case pedestrian street in San Antonio,Texas,one level down from the automobile street. The River Walk winds and loops under bridges as two parallel sidewalks lined with restaurants and shops,connecting the major tourist draws such as the Shops at Rivercenter,the Arneson River Theatre,Marriage Island,La Villita,HemisFair Park,the Tower Life Building,the San Antonio Museum of Art,the Pearl,and the city's five Spanish colonial missions,which have been named a World Heritage Site,which includes the Alamo. During the annual springtime Fiesta San Antonio,the River Parade features flowery floats that float down the river.
The Convention of 1832 was the first political gathering of colonists in Mexican Texas. Delegates sought reforms from the Mexican government and hoped to quell the widespread belief that settlers in Texas wished to secede from Mexico. The convention was the first in a series of unsuccessful attempts at political negotiation that eventually led to the Texas Revolution.
Peter M. Holt is an American businessman. He is the former CEO of HoltCat,the largest Caterpillar dealership in the United States and former chairman,CEO,and owner of Spurs Sports &Entertainment,which owns the NBA's San Antonio Spurs,the USL's San Antonio FC,the AHL's San Antonio Rampage,and the NBA G League's Austin Spurs.
The Convention of 1833,a political gathering of settlers of Mexican Texas,was a successor to the Convention of 1832,whose requests had not been addressed by the Mexican government. Despite the political uncertainty succeeding from a recently-concluded civil war,56 delegates met in San Felipe de Austin to draft a series of petitions to the Alamo. The volatile William H. Wharton presided over the meeting.
The Consultation,also known as the Texian Government,served as the provisional government of Mexican Texas from October 1835 to March 1836 during the Texas Revolution. Tensions rose in Texas during early 1835 as throughout Mexico federalists began to oppose the increasingly centralist policies of the government. In the summer,Texians elected delegates to a political convention to be held in Gonzales in mid-October. Weeks before the convention and war began,the Texian Militia took up arms against Mexican soldiers at the Battle of Gonzales. The convention was postponed until November 1 after many of the delegates joined the newly organized volunteer Texian Army to initiate a siege of the Mexican garrison at San Antonio de Bexar. On November 3,a quorum was reached in San Antonio. Within days,the delegates passed a resolution to define why Texians were fighting. They expressed allegiance to the deposed Constitution of 1824 and maintained their right to form the General Council. In the next weeks,the council authorized the creation of a new regular army to be commanded by Sam Houston. As Houston worked to establish an army independent from the existing volunteer army,the council repeatedly interfered in military matters.
Phillip Duane Hardberger is an American politician and lawyer who served as mayor of San Antonio,taking office in June,2005. A Democrat,he was elected on a non-partisan ballot.
Leticia Rosa Magdalena Aguilar Van de Putte (née San Miguel;born December 6,1954) is an American politician from San Antonio,Texas. She represented the 26th District in the Texas Senate from 1999–2015. From 1991 to 1999,Van de Putte was a member of the Texas House of Representatives. In 2014,she was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor but lost the general election,58-39 percent,to her Republican senatorial colleague,Dan Patrick of Houston. Following that defeat,she then resigned from the Texas Senate to run for mayor of San Antonio,which she narrowly lost to Ivy Taylor,52-48 percent.
Lynette Boggs is a former Republican politician in Clark County,Nevada,and the winner of the Miss Oregon 1989 scholarship pageant. She went by the name of Lynette Boggs McDonald for most of her political career and returned to her maiden name after a 2007 divorce. She remarried in 2017 and both personally and professionally is known as Lynette Boggs-Perez.
Downtown San Antonio is the central business district of San Antonio,Texas and the urban core of Greater San Antonio,a metropolitan area with nearly 2.5 million people.
Esperanza "Hope" Andrade is a businesswoman from San Antonio,Texas,who is the former commissioner representing employers on the Texas Workforce Commission,an appointed position which she held from 2013 to 2015. From 2008 to 2012,she was Secretary of State of Texas,an appointed position under Governor Rick Perry.
Juan Jose Maria Erasmo Seguín was a prominent citizen and politician in San Antonio de Bexar in the 19th century. From 1807 until 1835,Seguín served as head postmaster of San Antonio,Texas. After Mexico achieved independence from Spain,Seguín was named the sole representative from Texas to the constitutional convention. He helped to draft the Constitution of 1824 and was a major influence in the addition of a general colonization provision. Seguín assisted Stephen F. Austin in choosing land for the first colony of American settlers to immigrate to Texas. He later supported the Texas Revolution,providing political as well as material support. He was the father of Tejano revolutionary Juan Seguín.
JoséGaspar Flores de Abrego (1781–1836) was a Tejano who served three terms as the mayor of San Antonio,Texas. He was also a land commissioner and associate of Austin's early colonists. Gaspar Flores was a member of a group opposing the dictatorial actions of the President of Mexico,Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna,and is known to have attended their first meeting in Bexar as well as the first revolutionary convention ever held in the city on November 15,1834. He was one of the 35 men who signed the anti-Centrist document which was presented at the convention.
Mary Eleanor Brackenridge was one of three women on the first board of regents at Texas Woman's University,the first women in the state of Texas to sit on a governing board of any university. She was active in women's clubs and was a co-founder of the Woman's Club of San Antonio. Brackenridge was a leader in Texas suffrage organizations and helped get the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution passed. She was the first woman in San Antonio to register to vote. Although it's the Brackenridge name in Texas that is associated with wealth,philanthropy and achievement,Brackenridge qualified as a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution through her mother's lineage. Miss Brackenridge was a founding member and the first Regent of the oldest DAR chapter in San Antonio,the San Antonio de Bexar Chapter,established on December 11,1902.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of San Antonio,Texas,United States.
Anna Maria Farias is an American lawyer and government official who currently serves as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. Prior to assuming her current role,Farias served as vice chair of the Republican Party of Bexar County,Texas from 2015 through 2017. Farias is also chair of the Board of Regents at Texas Woman's University.
On May 4,2019,the city of San Antonio,Texas held an election to choose the next mayor of San Antonio. The election was a nonpartisan blanket primary. As no candidate secured a majority of the vote,a runoff was held on June 8,2019,between the two top candidates,incumbent mayor Ron Nirenberg and San Antonio City Councilman Greg Brockhouse. In the runoff,Nirenberg narrowly defeated Brockhouse,51.11% to 48.89%.
María Antonietta Berriozábal is an American activist and author living in San Antonio,Texas.
Maria del Rosario "Rosie" Castro is an American civil rights activist and educator from San Antonio,Texas,who has been involved in several prominent groups,such as the Young Democrats of America,the Mexican American Youth Organization,the Committee for Barrio Betterment,and the Raza Unida Party. She is the mother of politicians Julian and Joaquin Castro.
Erik Walsh is the City Manager of San Antonio,Texas. He has served in the position since March 2019.
