Edward Burleson
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Edward Burleson was the third vice president of the Republic of Texas. After Texas was annexed to the United States, he served in the State Senate. Prior to his government service in Texas, he was a c
Edward Burleson in photograph, prior to 1851
Sam Houston
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Samuel Houston was an American military general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution in which the Republic of Texas seceded from Mexico. He served as the first and third p
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…Runaway Scrape and at the Battle of San Jacinto. With the capture of Antonio López de Santa Anna at San Jacinto, the Mexican general rode double into Sam Houston's camp on the horse of Joel Walter Robison, a soldier in most of the revolutionary battles and later a member of the Texas House of Representatives…
Portrait by Mathew Brady, c. 1848–1850
Sam Houston Birthplace Marker in Rockbridge County, Virginia
Painting of Houston from 1836
Detail from Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto by Henry Arthur McArdle