50 People Who Shaped Texas History

The following are people that performed key roles in the development of Texas before 1900. Click the name for additional biography and details of each individual.

	Birth		Death		Texas Revol.	Indian Fights	MX/AM War	Civil War
Branch T. Archer	1790	VA	1856	TX	✅
Stephen F. Austin	1793	VA	1836	TX	✅
Peter H. Bell	1812	VA	1898	NC	✅	✅	✅	✅
Gail Borden, Jr.	1801	NY	1874	TX	✅			✅
James Bowie	1796	KY	1836	TX	✅	✅
John H. Brown	1820	MO	1895	TX		✅
Guy M. Bryan	1821	MO	1901	TX			✅	✅
Ed Burleson	1798	NC	1851	TX	✅	✅	✅
David Burnet	1788	NJ	1870	TX	✅
Richard Coke	1829	VA	1897	TX		✅		✅
F. de Coronado	1510	SP	1554	MX
Davy Crockett	1786	TN	1836	TX	✅
Susana Dickinson	1814	TN	1836	TX	✅
James Fannin	1804	GA	1836	TX	✅
John ‘Rip’ Ford	1815	SC	1897	TX		✅	✅	✅
Tom Green	1814	VA	1864	LA	✅	✅	✅	✅
W. P. Hardeman	1816	TN	1898	TX	✅	✅	✅	✅
John C. Hays	1817	TN	1883	CA		✅	✅
J. P. Henderson	1809	NC	1858	DC			✅
James S. Hogg	1851	TX	1906	TX
Sam Houston	1793	VA	1863	TX	✅
Albert S. Johnston	1802	KY	1862	TN	✅	✅	✅	✅
Anson Jones	1798	MA	1858	TX	✅
Scott Joplin	1868	TX	1917	NY
Mirabeau Lamar	1798	GA	1859	TX	✅		✅
Sieur de La Salle	1643	FR	1687	TX
Jane Long	1798	MD	1880	TX
F. R. Lubbock	1815	SC	1905	TX		✅
Ben McCulloch	1811	TN	1862	AR	✅	✅	✅	✅
Ben Milam	1788	KY	1835	TX	✅
Antonio Navarro	1795	TX	1871	TX	✅	✅
Elisabet Ney	1833	GE	1907	TX
James K. Polk	1795	NC	1849	TN			✅
‘O. Henry’ Porter	1862	NC	1910	NY
O. M. Roberts	1815	SC	1898	TX				✅
Sterling Robertson	1785	TN	1842	TX	✅
L. S. ‘Sul’ Ross	1838	IA	1898	TX		✅		✅
Thomas J. Rusk	1803	SC	1857	TX	✅	✅
A. de Santa Anna	1794	MX	1876	MX	✅		✅
Ashbel Smith	1805	CT	1886	TX	✅	✅
E. ‘Deaf’ Smith	1787	NY	1837	TX	✅	✅
Henry Smith	1784	KY	1851	CA	✅	✅
Alex. W. Terrell	1827	VA	1912	TX				✅
William B. Travis	1809	SC	1836	TX	✅
‘Bigfoot’ Wallace	1817	VA	1899	TX		✅	✅
R. M. Williamson	1804	GA	1859	TX	✅	✅
Lorenzo de Zavala	1789	MX	1836	TX	✅

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