In 1836, five sites served as temporary capitals of Texas ( Washington-on-the-Brazos, Harrisburg, Galveston, Velasco and Columbia ), before President Sam Houston moved the capital to Houston in 1837.

Andrew Stuart Fastow ( born December 22, 1961 ) is an American businessman who served as the chief financial officer of Enron Corporation that was based in Houston, Texas until the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into his and the company's conduct in 2001.

Houston is the only person in U. S. history to have been the governor of two different states ( although other men had served as governors of more than one American territory ).

Houston then served from October 22, 1836, to December 10, 1838, and again from December 12, 1841, to December 9, 1844.

The city of Houston served as the capital until President Mirabeau Lamar signed a measure that moved the capital to Austin on January 14, 1839.

As of 2010, Houston Street is served by the M21 bus from FDR Drive to Washington Street.

Collin Aldrich ( 1801 – 1842 ) was a veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto and was the first judge in Houston County, having served during the Republic of Texas from 1837-1841.

Houston County is served by US Highway 287 and State Highways 7, 19 and 21.

Adams, an engineer, served on the body for several terms before he resigned to relocate to Houston, Texas.

McSpadden had served under the legendary Sam Houston in the Mexican-American War.

Houston was once served by both the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad and Okolona, Houston & Calhoun City Railway.

The City of Houston is served by the Houston School District.

The Village of Woodland is served by the Houston School District.

The City of Columbia is served by the Columbia School District. The mayor of Columbia is Reed Houston, who was recently voted into office succeeding long-time mayor Harold Bryant.

Ennis served as Mayor of Houston ( 1856-57 ), and as a director of the Houston Tap and Brazoria Railway and Houston and Texas Central Railway.

Bellaire is served by the Houston Community College System ( HCCS ).

The settlement originally served as a farming and ranching community but in the 1880s transformed into a railroad center along the new Port of Houston.

The pupils zoned to GPISD are served by San Jacinto College, while the students zoned HISD are served by the Houston Community College System.

Rep. Henry C. Grover, who teaches history in the Houston public schools, would reduce from 24 to 12 semester hours the so-called `` teaching methods '' courses required to obtain a junior or senior high school teaching certificate.

The top 3 students from 11 participating Dallas County high schools will be honored by the Dallas Sales Executives Club at a banquet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Sam Houston Room of the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel as the club winds up its annual Distributive Education project.

) She graduated from Waltrip High School and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Saint Thomas in Houston.

When Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield jumped together from a Houston skyscraper on 18 January 1981, they became the first to attain the exclusive BASE numbers ( BASE # 1 and # 2, respectively ), having already jumped from an antenna, spans, and earthen objects.

During Selig's terms as Executive Council Chairman ( from 1992 – 1998 ) and Commissioner, new stadiums have opened in Arizona, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Arlington, St. Louis, Washington, D. C., New York City ( Flushing, Queens and the Bronx ), Minneapolis, and Miami.

Pitcher Darryl Kile ( who died in 2002 ) signed as a free agent in the offseason, struggled in Colorado, going 13 – 17 with a 5. 20 ERA — a far cry from his numbers the prior year as a member of the Houston Astros, when he went 19 – 7 with a 2. 57 ERA.

On May 24, Kazuo Matsui, former Rockies second baseman during the 2007 championship season, was resigned to the club following his unconditional release from the Houston Astros.

While taking a business trip, Max Klein ( Jeff Bridges ) survives a crash of a flight headed from San Francisco to Houston.

The Marlins also drafted P Johan Santana from Houston in the Rule 5 Draft but traded him to Minnesota in a prearranged deal for P Jared Camp.

* LaGuardia Place, a street in Greenwich Village which runs from Houston Street to Washington Square, is named for La Guardia ; there is also a statue of the mayor on that street.

The name " Houston Oilers " was unavailable to the expansion team, as that name was still owned by the Tennessee Titans, whose owner Bud Adams had retired the name from use in 1999.

However, from that low point until the end of July, Houston went 42 – 17 and found themselves in the lead for an NL wild card spot.

Warren Giles, William's father and President of the National League from to, had awarded an MLB franchise to the city of Houston in 1960.

The very next week the Jaguars fell to the Houston Texans, which would ultimately eliminate them from playoff contention.

* 1981 – Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans ( bridges ), and earth ( cliffs ).

Sam Houston from Texas was one of the few southern opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Bruce Westbrook of The Houston Chronicle, in reviewing the re-mastered " Forever Changes " in 2001, called it a " seamless masterpiece, from the fervent acoustic opener ' Alone Again Or ' to the epic seven-minute finale ' You Set the Scene.

* 1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.

* 1861 – Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.

However, the Brewers were eliminated from postseason contention on Spetember 30, a 7-0 loss to the Houston Astros.

John W. Mecom, Jr., a young oilman from Houston, became the team's first majority stockholder.

From 1966 to 1968, the league expanded from 9 to 14 teams, introducing the Chicago Bulls, Seattle SuperSonics ( now Oklahoma City Thunder ), San Diego Rockets ( who relocated to Houston four years later ), Milwaukee Bucks, and Phoenix Suns.

Eric Harrison of the Houston Chronicle noted that Cruz " goes all out " with her appearance and Patrick Peters of Empire magazine commented that the film's director, who also appears in the film, was able to draw a " sensitive performance " from Cruz.