I purposely refrained from adding the usual distinction of saying that he was from the State of Texas.

State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.

An adverse vote of 81 to 65 kept in the State Affairs Committee a bill which would order the referendum on the April 4 ballot, when Texas votes on a U.S. senator.

He also received a Master of Science degree from Texas A & I College and a Bachelor of Science degree from Southwestern State College, Weatherford, Okla..

Dr. Clark has served as teacher and principal in Oklahoma high schools, as teacher and athletic director at Raymondville, Texas, High School, as an instructor at the University of Oklahoma, and as an associate professor of education at Fort Hays, Kan., State College.

Miss Shirley Joan Meredith, a former student of North Texas State University, was married Saturday to Larry W. Mills, who has attended Arlington State College.

Johnston's tomb in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas | Austin, Texas

In 1866, a joint resolution of the Texas Legislature was passed to have his body reinterred to the Texas State Cemetery in Austin The re-interment occurred in 1867.

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Moyers interviewed Collins, Cash, opera singer Jessye Norman, Appalachian folk musician Jean Ritchie and her family, white Sacred Harp singers in Georgia, black Sacred Harp singers in Alabama, and a prison choir at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville.

* Blind Lemon Jefferson is the featured musician on a State of Texas license plate.

The Country Music Hall of Fame inducted Wills in 1968 and the Texas State Legislature honored him for his contribution to American music.

Then in 1947 he opened the Wills Point nightclub in Sacramento and continued touring the Southwest and Pacific Northwest from Texas to Washington State.

including: The District of Columbia ; the City of Austin, Texas ; Dane County, Wisconsin ; Washington State ; and several municipalities in Minnesota.

* Hendrickson Jr .; Kenneth E. " Replenishing the Soil and the Soul of Texas: The Civilian Conservation Corps in the Lone Star State as an Example of State-Federal Work Relief during the Great Depression " The Historian, Vol.

The Dallas Cowboys ' blue star logo representative of Texas as " The Lone Star State " is one of the best known team logos in professional sports.

Originally known as the Fair Park Bowl, it is located in Fair Park, site of the State Fair of Texas.

* 1998 – 2002: Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas

His birthplace is currently operated by the State of Texas as the Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site.

She attended Lawrence High School then Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, and graduated with an Associate in Applied Arts Degree from Wades Business College in Dallas, Texas.

* Online Local News, Sports, Discussion Boards, Online Business Directory, and Event Calendar in Forney, Texas

* at Texas DOT Airport Directory

* at Texas DOT Airport Directory

Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.

* Austin County, Texas ( note that Austin, Texas, is located in Travis County, Texas )

They settled on a large plantation he named China Grove in Brazoria County, Texas.

Among these may be mentioned: the Mazatzal Mountain region in Gila and Maricopa Counties, Arizona ; Red Feather Lakes, near Ft Collins, Colorado ; Amethyst Mountain, Texas ; Yellowstone National Park ; Delaware County, Pennsylvania ; Haywood County, North Carolina ; Deer Hill and Stow, Maine and in the Lake Superior region of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario in Canada.

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Travis County, Texas

Category: Populated places in Williamson County, Texas

Category: Populated places in Hays County, Texas

Category: Populated places in Travis County, Texas

* Bell County, Texas

* Bell Mountain AVA, Texas wine region in Gillespie County

Lemon Henry Jefferson was born blind near Coutchman, Texas in Freestone County, near present-day Wortham, Texas.

He was born on a farm near Kosse, Texas, in Limestone County near Groesbeck, to Emma Lee Foley and John Tompkins Wills.

While living in Hall County, Texas they also played at ' ranch dances ' which were popular in both North Texas and eastern New Mexico.

The family moved to Hall County in the Texas Panhandle in 1913, and in 1919 they bought a farm between the towns of Lakeview and Turkey.

* Cone, Texas, an unincorporated community in Crosby County, Texas, United States

Lagow provided the animal to Texas Parks and Wildlife officials for identification, but Lagow reported in a September 17, 2006 phone interview with John Adolfi, founder of the Lost World Museum, that the " critter was caught on a Tuesday and thrown out in Thursday's trash.

Houston officials had been making efforts to bring a Major League team to Texas before the expansion in 1962.

On August 31, 2010, eleven defendants were indicted on RICO charges for allegedly assisting AccessHealthSource, a local health care provider, in obtaining and maintaining lucrative contracts with local and state government entities in the city of El Paso, Texas, “ through bribery of and kickbacks to elected officials or himself and others, extortion under color of authority, fraudulent schemes and artifices, false pretenses, promises and representations and deprivation of the right of citizens to the honest services of their elected local officials ” ( see indictment ).

Likewise the notorious Lafitte brothers in New Orleans cruised under letters of marque secured by bribery from corrupt officials of tenuous Central American governments, or the briefly sovereign nation of Texas, to cloak plunder with a thin veil of legality.

On September 2007, Corpus Christi, Texas wildlife officials found a record of 128 Kemp's ridley sea turtle nests on Texas beaches, including 81 on North Padre Island ( Padre Island National Seashore ) and 4 on Mustang Island.

Wildlife officials released 10, 594 Kemp's ridleys hatchlings along the Texas coast this year.

On June 16, 2010, Texas state lawmakers Garnet Coleman and Bill Callegari, both from the Houston area, co-wrote a letter asking Big 12 officials to consider adding the University of Houston ( a Conference USA member ) to the Big 12.

Several days later, Southeastern Conference officials voted to accept Texas A & M as its thirteenth member, conditional upon a reaffirmation that the remaining Big 12 schools would not pursue legal action to block the move.

In 1920, athletic officials from six Texas HBCUs — C. H.

As with all 254 Texas counties, Smith County provides services to its citizens as defined by the Texas Constitution the Local Government Code and the Texas State Transportation Code through independent elected officials, rather than through one central authority.

A crusading newspaper editor, Clymer Wright of the then Fort Bend Reporter, joined with state officials and the Texas Rangers to rid the area of such corruption.

In 1993 Dell submitted a document to Round Rock officials, titled " Dell Computer Corporate Headquarters, Round Rock, Texas, May 1993 Schematic Design.

* 2011 recall of multiple Killeen, Texas elected city officials including Mayor Pro Tem Scott Cosper and four city council members.

* Small Town Justice-Research your local officials Anderson County, Texas

The City of Murphy, Texas adopted a Home Rule Charter in 2003 and the power of the city is vested in a council of elected individuals who regulate and legislate and appoint other officials, such as the City Manager, who heads the executive branch.

Buda bore the name of “ Du Pre ” from its birth in 1881 until the autumn of 1887, when postal officials became aware that another Texas town was also named Du Pre.

" On Dec. 11, 1926, a 22-year old University of Texas at Austin student named Rebecca Bradley posed as a reporter from the Beaumont Enterprise and convinced officials from the Farmers National Bank of Buda to let her use the typewriter.

They filed a complaint with the Texas state athletic commission, but in vain, as the officials reviewed a tape of the fight and decided the result should stand.

Recently in Florida, Texas, Arizona, Massachusetts, Iowa, and the Gulf Coast region, 2-1-1 centers were instrumental in coordinating with local government officials and providing information to communities before and after local disasters.

Shortly after the storm formed, officials in Galveston County, Texas issued a voluntary evacuation for the western end of Galveston Island, as the area was not protected by the Galveston Seawall.