The Republican congressman for Texas's 14th district, Ron Paul, is a proponent of the Austrian School.

* It is often stated that the Texas flag is the only state flag that can be flown at the same height as the American flag, because of Texas's former status as a nation.

February 2: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the Mexican-American War | Mexican – American War and ceding all the Republic of Texas's territorial claims to the United States for $ 15m.

Galveston is in Texas's 14th congressional district and is represented by Ron Paul.

In Joe R. Lansdale's short story The Big Blow, Johnson is featured fighting a white boxer brought in by Galveston, Texas's boxing fans to defeat the African American fighter during the 1900 Galveston Hurricane.

As the county seat, Angleton hosts the Brazoria County Fair every October ; it is considered Texas's largest county fair.

Anthony Texas is the home for one of Texas's 12 Travel and Information Centers providing the following services for travelers entering Texas from New Mexico:

Waxahachie is locally known for its elaborate Richardsonian Romanesque courthouse, considered by many to be among the most beautiful of Texas's older courthouses.

Jacinto City is within Texas's 29th congressional district ; as of 2008 Gene Green represents the district.

Jersey Village is in Texas's 7th congressional district.

Benbrook is a city located in the southwestern corner of Tarrant County, Texas, in Texas's 12th congressional district, and a suburb of Fort Worth.

As of 2007, East Bernard is one of Texas's newest cities.

The Trinity River, one of Texas's major rivers, is found about 4 miles away from the city.

Stafford is in Texas's 22nd congressional district.

The governor of Texas is the head of the executive branch of Texas's government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

Thomas Dale " Tom " DeLay (; born April 8, 1947 ) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1984 until 2006.

Facing comparable facts, the Fifth Circuit struck down Texas's sex toy ban holding that " morality is an insufficient justification for a statute " and " interests in ' public morality ' cannot constitutionally sustain the statute after Lawrence.

The design is reminiscent of Texas's Lone Star flag.

The community is located within Texas's 7th congressional district.

She asserted that it was a racially discriminatory ruling, given the fact that the Supreme Court had previously ruled that Texas's 6th District, which is 91 percent white, was constitutional.

East Texas's population is centered around Beaumont / Port Arthur / Orange in Southeast Texas, Lufkin / Nacogdoches in Deep East Texas, and Tyler, Longview / Marshall, and Texarkana in Northeast Texas.

The Legislature is arguably considered the most powerful arm of the Texas government not only because of its power of the purse to control and direct the activities of state government and the strong constitutional connections between it and the Lieutenant Governor of Texas, but also due to Texas's plural executive.

* First draft of the compromise of 1850: Texas's northwestern boundary would be a straight diagonal line from the Rio Grande 20 miles north of El Paso to the Red River ( Mississippi watershed ) at the 100th meridian west ( the southwestern corner of today's Oklahoma ).

* First draft of the compromise of 1850: Texas's northwestern boundary would be a straight diagonal line from the Rio Grande north of El Paso to the Red River ( Mississippi watershed ) at the 100th meridian west ( the southwestern corner of today's Oklahoma ).

The Texas Centennial Exposition was a World's Fair held at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas ( USA ) to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Texas's independence from Mexico in 1836.

The majority report of the court found that Commodore Schley failed to proceed to Santiago with due despatch, that the squadron should not have been delayed by the Eagle, that he should not have turned westward, that he should have obeyed the Navy Department's order of May 25, 1898, that he did not do his utmost to capture the Colon, that the turn of the Brooklyn caused the Texas to stop, for carelessness in endangering Texas, for blanketing the fire of other American vessels ( the Texas's fire was blanketed when stopped as the USS Olympia dashed past her ), that he did injustice to lieutenant-commander Hodgson ( Navigation officer of the Brooklyn at the time of the incident ), that his conduct in the Santiago campaign was characterized by vacillation, dilatoriness, and " lack of enterprise ," and that his coal reports were inaccurate and misleading.

An additional near Kansas City International Airport is signed along with Interstate 29 and U. S. Route 71, making I-435 the second-longest complete beltway numbered as a single Interstate Highway in the U. S., and fifth longest in the world after Cincinnati, Ohio's Interstate 275 at, Houston, Texas's Beltway 8 at, Berlin's Bundesautobahn 10 at, and London's M25 motorway at.

His family has endowed two chairs at the University of Texas's theatre department in his name.

In May 1836 Burnet and Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna, who was at the time a Texan prisoner-of-war, signed the Treaties of Velasco officially recognizing Texas's break from Mexico.

On September 13, 2010, during a Halo: Reach launch party at London, England's Trafalgar Square, stuntman Dan Schlund of Texas's " Rocketman " firm ( which provides jet packs for use by marketing and sporting companies ) donned a Halo-esque " Spartan armor " suit and a jet pack and maintained flight for 30 seconds before landing safely.

The following year, they played another benefit at Houston, Texas's Astrodome.

He has previously served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Southwestern University and Chairman of the University of Texas's M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

In Sweatt, the Court considered the constitutionality of Texas's state system of law schools, which educated blacks and whites at separate institutions.

The most Democratic congressional districts in the country are New York's 15th and 16th, located in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx respectively, at D + 41, while the most Republican districts are Alabama's 6th and Texas's 13th with a PVI of R + 29.

The LED video system is the second largest high-definition video board in college football behind Godzillatron at The University of Texas's Darrell K Royal Stadium.

By October of 2011, DeVore dropped out of the race when he accepted a new job as a visiting scholar at the nonprofit Texas Public Policy Foundation writing about Texas's low taxes and regulations and its effects on business climate, in contrast to other states.

Until 2003, Texas's worldwide album sales were counted at 20 million.

Richard William " Dick " Dowling ( 1838 – September 23, 1867 ) was the victorious commander at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass in the American Civil War, and is considered Houston, Texas's first prominent citizen and hero.

The Texas Congress admonished Houston for the incident, and this episode in Texas history would solidify Austin as Texas's seat of government for the Republic and the future state.

During the deadlock of four years, the Second Party System broke up, Mormon pioneers settled Utah, the California Gold Rush settled northern California, and New Mexico under a federal military government turned back Texas's attempt to assert control over territory Texas claimed as far west as the Rio Grande.

* Establishment of boundaries for the state of Texas in exchange for federal payment of Texas's ten million dollar debt.

Johnson's father had served six terms in the Texas legislature and was a close friend of one of Texas's rising political figures, Congressman Sam Rayburn.

He was a major critic of President Mirabeau Lamar, who advocated continuing independence of Texas, annihilation of American Indians and the extension of Texas's boundaries to the Pacific Ocean.

To avoid more bloodshed in Texas, Houston turned down U. S. Col. Frederick W. Lander's offer from President Lincoln of 50, 000 troops to prevent Texas's secession.

Although Mexico ceded Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuejiijij o Mexico, the text of the treaty did not list territories to be ceded, and avoided the disputed issues that were causes of war: the validity of the 1836 secession of the Republic of Texas, Texas's unenforced boundary claims as far as the Rio Grande, and the 1845 Texas Annexation by the US.

Since 1935, the organization has been a division of the Texas Department of Public Safety ; it fulfills the role of Texas's State Bureau of Investigation.

The Legislature is the constitutional successor of the Congress of the Republic of Texas since Texas's 1845 entrance into the Union.

The Mexican Cession of 1848 is a historical name in the United States for the region of the present day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U. S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, but had not been part of the areas east of the Rio Grande which had been claimed by the Republic of Texas, though the Texas Annexation resolution two years earlier had not specified Texas's southern and western boundary.

Soon after the war started and long before negotiation of the new US-Mexico border, the question of slavery in the territories to be acquired polarized the Northern and Southern United States in the bitterest sectional conflict up to this time, which lasted for a deadlock of four years during which the Second Party System broke up, Mormon pioneers settled Utah, the California Gold Rush settled California, and New Mexico under a federal military U. S government turned back Texas's attempt to assert control over territory Texas claimed as far west as the Rio Grande.