He was Member of Congress from
Tennessee (1823-27), Governor of Tennessee (1827-28), and as
Commander-in-Chief of the Texans he defeated the Mexicans under Santa
Anna in 1836 on the banks of the San Jacinto, and by this one blow
achieved the independence of Texas. He was elected first President of
the new republic in the same year, was re-elected in 1841, and in 1859
was elected Governor of the state. Houston, the capital of Harris
County, Texas, was named in his honor. Peter Hansborough Bell
(1812-98), third Governor (1849-53), was of Ulster Scot ancestry, as
was also James Edward Ferguson (b. 1871). James Stephen Hogg,
nineteenth Governor and Thomas Mitchell Campbell, twenty-third
Governor, were of Scottish descent.
COLORADO. Edward Moody McCook, fifth and seventh Governor (1869-73,
1874-75), was of Scottish descent. He also served in the Civil War and
attained the rank of Brigadier-General. James Benton Grant, tenth
Governor (1883-85), was grandson of a Scottish immigrant. Jesse Fuller
McDonald, twenty-third Governor (1905-07), a descendant of James
McDonald who emigrated from Scotland early in the eighteenth century
and settled in Maine.
WYOMING. Thomas Moonlight (1833-99), sixth territorial Governor
(1887-90), was born in Forfarshire.
UTAH. Eli Houston Murray (b. 1841), Governor (1880-84), of Scottish
ancestry.
IDAHO. John Henry Brady (b. 1862), eighth Governor (1910-11), is of
Ulster Scot descent. David P. Thompson, ninth Governor of the state
(1874-76), also of Ulster Scot descent, built the first railroad in
Oregon, and was twice Mayor of Portland.
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