50 People Who Shaped Texas History

Birth

Death

Texas Revol.

Indian Fights

MX/AM War

Civil War

Branch T. Archer

1790

VA

1856

TX

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Stephen F. Austin

1793

VA

1836

TX

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Peter H. Bell

1812

VA

1898

NC

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Gail Borden, Jr.

1801

NY

1874

TX

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James Bowie

1796

KY

1836

TX

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John H. Brown

1820

MO

1895

TX

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Guy M. Bryan

1821

MO

1901

TX

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Ed Burleson

1798

NC

1851

TX

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David Burnet

1788

NJ

1870

TX

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Richard Coke

1829

VA

1897

TX

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F. de Coronado

1510

SP

1554

MX

Davy Crockett

1786

TN

1836

TX

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Susana Dickinson

1814

TN

1836

TX

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James Fannin

1804

GA

1836

TX

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John ‘Rip’ Ford

1815

SC

1897

TX

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Tom Green

1814

VA

1864

LA

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W. P. Hardeman

1816

TN

1898

TX

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John C. Hays

1817

TN

1883

CA

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J. P. Henderson

1809

NC

1858

DC

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James S. Hogg

1851

TX

1906

TX

Sam Houston

1793

VA

1863

TX

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Albert S. Johnston

1802

KY

1862

TN

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Anson Jones

1798

MA

1858

TX

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Scott Joplin

1868

TX

1917

NY

Mirabeau Lamar

1798

GA

1859

TX

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Sieur de La Salle

1643

FR

1687

TX

Jane Long

1798

MD

1880

TX

F. R. Lubbock

1815

SC

1905

TX

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Ben McCulloch

1811

TN

1862

AR

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Ben Milam

1788

KY

1835

TX

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Antonio Navarro

1795

TX

1871

TX

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Elisabet Ney

1833

GE

1907

TX

James K. Polk

1795

NC

1849

TN

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‘O. Henry’ Porter

1862

NC

1910

NY

O. M. Roberts

1815

SC

1898

TX

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Sterling Robertson

1785

TN

1842

TX

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L. S. ‘Sul’ Ross

1838

IA

1898

TX

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Thomas J. Rusk

1803

SC

1857

TX

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A. de Santa Anna

1794

MX

1876

MX

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Ashbel Smith

1805

CT

1886

TX

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E. ‘Deaf’ Smith

1787

NY

1837

TX

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Henry Smith

1784

KY

1851

CA

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Alex. W. Terrell

1827

VA

1912

TX

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William B. Travis

1809

SC

1836

TX

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‘Bigfoot’ Wallace

1817

VA

1899

TX

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R. M. Williamson

1804

GA

1859

TX

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Lorenzo de Zavala

1789

MX

1836

TX

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