This Day In Texas History - January 18
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:08 pm
1831 - Churchill Fulshear, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists, passed away. His three sons served as scouts in the Texas army during the Texas Revolution. They were on duty when Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna crossed the Brazos River on the road to San Jacinto. The town of Fulshear, in northern Fort Bend County, is named for Churchill Fulshear.
1840 - The disputed area between the Nueces and Rio Grande rivers was organized into a seperate "Republic of the Rio Grande", with Laredo as its Capitol. The new Republic has a flag, a constitution and a new President, Jesus Cardenas. The area will be annexed by Texas in 1844, and with Texas statehood, the US in 1845, leading to the US war with Mexico.
1841 - John Brower was appointed consul for the Republic of Texas in New York City by David G. Burnet and was confirmed by the Texas Senate on this day. During his incumbency he worked to effect ratification of the commercial treaty between Texas and the United States, reported to the Texas government attempts by Mexican agents to equip and man ships in New York harbor, and between November 1844 and March 1845 made a trip to Europe in the interest of Texas. His term ended with annexation on February 16, 1846.
1842 - Marshall University was chartered with a grant of four leagues of land. The school, never a university except in name, opened that year. Virgil M. DuBose as its first president and Andrew Jackson Fowler as its first teacher. James M. Morphis took charge of the male department in 1849. The school was coeducational until 1850, when the female department was organized into a separate institution, Marshall Masonic Female Institute, which operated for more than fifty years.
1891 - James Stephen Hogg, the first native Texan to be elected as state governor, was inaugurated. He was born near Rusk.
1954 - Alan Shivers was sworn in as Governor for an unprecedented fourth term. He first became governor upon the death of Gov Beauford Jester. He was a staunch conservative which later put him at odds with the more liberal Texas Senator Ralph Yarbrough during the civil rights era. Shivers later served as Chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas, and Chairman of Austin National Bank.
1971 - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit in federal court alleging stock fraud against a number of Texas state officials accused of making profitable, quick-turnover, bank-financed stock purchases in return for the passage of legislation desired by a financier, Houston businessman Frank W. Sharp. The political turmoil from the Sharpstown scandal resulted in a "reform" movement that eventually saw much of the legislature replaced. Reform laws passed in 1973 required state officials to disclose their sources of income, forced candidates to make public more details about their campaign finances, opened up most governmental records to citizen scrutiny, expanded the requirement for open meetings of governmental policy-making agencies, and imposed new disclosure regulations on paid lobbyists.
1840 - The disputed area between the Nueces and Rio Grande rivers was organized into a seperate "Republic of the Rio Grande", with Laredo as its Capitol. The new Republic has a flag, a constitution and a new President, Jesus Cardenas. The area will be annexed by Texas in 1844, and with Texas statehood, the US in 1845, leading to the US war with Mexico.
1841 - John Brower was appointed consul for the Republic of Texas in New York City by David G. Burnet and was confirmed by the Texas Senate on this day. During his incumbency he worked to effect ratification of the commercial treaty between Texas and the United States, reported to the Texas government attempts by Mexican agents to equip and man ships in New York harbor, and between November 1844 and March 1845 made a trip to Europe in the interest of Texas. His term ended with annexation on February 16, 1846.
1842 - Marshall University was chartered with a grant of four leagues of land. The school, never a university except in name, opened that year. Virgil M. DuBose as its first president and Andrew Jackson Fowler as its first teacher. James M. Morphis took charge of the male department in 1849. The school was coeducational until 1850, when the female department was organized into a separate institution, Marshall Masonic Female Institute, which operated for more than fifty years.
1891 - James Stephen Hogg, the first native Texan to be elected as state governor, was inaugurated. He was born near Rusk.
1954 - Alan Shivers was sworn in as Governor for an unprecedented fourth term. He first became governor upon the death of Gov Beauford Jester. He was a staunch conservative which later put him at odds with the more liberal Texas Senator Ralph Yarbrough during the civil rights era. Shivers later served as Chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas, and Chairman of Austin National Bank.
1971 - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit in federal court alleging stock fraud against a number of Texas state officials accused of making profitable, quick-turnover, bank-financed stock purchases in return for the passage of legislation desired by a financier, Houston businessman Frank W. Sharp. The political turmoil from the Sharpstown scandal resulted in a "reform" movement that eventually saw much of the legislature replaced. Reform laws passed in 1973 required state officials to disclose their sources of income, forced candidates to make public more details about their campaign finances, opened up most governmental records to citizen scrutiny, expanded the requirement for open meetings of governmental policy-making agencies, and imposed new disclosure regulations on paid lobbyists.
