Letters Relating to the History of Annexation
Author : Anson Jones
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Texas
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Author : Anson Jones
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Texas
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Author : Anson JONES (President of the Republic of Texas.)
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 1848
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Author : Anson Jones
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Texas
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 1921
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Author : John Romeyn Brodhead
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Page : 858 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 1883
Category : New York (State)
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Author : Eugene Campbell Barker
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Southwest, New
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Author : United States
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Page : 888 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic journals
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Author : William Ellery Channing
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 1837
Category : Slavery
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Author : George Edward Ellis
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Page : 110 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Texas
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Author : Herbert Gambrell
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0292789084
This is the story of a New Englander who came penniless to Mexican Texas in 1833 and within the next decade helped to bring his adopted country through the turbulent disorders of settlement, revolution, political experimentation, and statehood. Within a year of his arrival, Anson Jones was successfully practicing medicine, acquiring land, and resolving to avoid politics; but then the Revolution erupted and Jones became a private in the Texas Army, doubling as surgeon at San Jacinto. Military duty done, he resumed medical practice but some acts of the First Congress so irked him that he became a member of the Second and began a political career that lasted from 1837 to 1846 during which he served successively as congressman, minister to the United States, Texas senator, secretary of state, and president of the Republic of Texas. Anson Jones took his own life on January 9, 1858. Told with imagination and insight, Herbert Gambrell's account of the life of Anson Jones is also a colorful and concurrent biography of Texas and its people.