Under Formby's plan, an appointee would be selected by a board composed of the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the House, attorney general and chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court.

There, Clinton worked with future two-term mayor of Dallas, Ron Kirk, future governor of Texas, Ann Richards, and then unknown television director ( and future filmmaker ), Steven Spielberg.

* 18-Preston Smith, 91, governor of Texas.

For example, at the start of the 2000 election cycle Dick Cheney was a resident of Texas ; Cheney quickly changed his residency back to Wyoming, where he had previously served as a U. S. Representative, when Texas governor and Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush asked Cheney to be his vice presidential candidate.

* January 3 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Confederate brigadier general, Texas governor, and president of Texas A & M University ( b. 1838 )

Twelve days later, Ma Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas.

* September 27 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Confederate brigadier general, Texas governor, and president of Texas A & M University ( d. 1898 )

They elected Henry Smith as governor, and Sam Houston was appointed commander-in-chief of the regular Army of Texas.

He later became a U. S. senator and governor of Texas.

Perot said his appoinment notice to the academy — sent by telegram — was sent by W. Lee " Pappy " O ' Daniel, Texas ' 34th governor and former senator.

In the same year that Perot organized the rescue mission in Iran, Texas governor Bill Clements requested his assistance developing policy to reduce illegal drug use.

Thus one writer alleges that Johnson's campaign manager, future Texas governor John B. Connally, was connected with 202 ballots in Precinct 13 in Jim Wells County that had curiously been cast in alphabetical order and just at the close of polling, with all of the people whose names appeared on the ballots being dead on election day.

Enron and UNOCAL executives along with the then governor of Texas, George W. Bush met with the Taliban in Houston to discuss a trans-Afghan pipeline project to bring Caspian Sea petroleum to the Indian subcontinent, partially to supply the Dabhol, India power plant with a cheap source of fuel.

* November 18 Enron announced that it was selling its subsidiary PGE to a group of investors headed by former Oregon governor Neil Goldschmidt and funded by Texas Pacific Group for $ 2. 35 billion.

Houston became a key figure in the history of Texas and was elected as the first and third President of the Republic of Texas, U. S. Senator for Texas after it joined the United States, and finally as a governor of the state.

Houston ran twice for governor of Texas as a Unionist, unsuccessfully in 1857, and successfully against Hardin R. Runnels in 1859.

On April 12, 1995, two weeks after her death, George W. Bush, governor of Texas at the time, declared her birthday " Selena Day " in Texas.

The Department of Commerce was one of three departments that Texas governor Rick Perry advocated eliminating during his 2012 presidential campaign, along with the Department of Education and Department of Energy.

The largest oil field in the lower 48 states, the East Texas oil field, was not discovered until 1930, when wildcatter Columbus Marion Joiner ( more commonly known as " Dad " Joiner ) drilled the Daisy Bradford No. 3 well, in Rusk County, Texas.

The oldest known recipe for sweet ice tea was published in 1879 in a community cookbook called Housekeeping in Old Virginia by Marion Cabell Tyree, who was born in Texas.

* Marion County, Texas

* Marion, Texas

* 1895-West Texas Normal and Business College was organized by Francis Marion Behrns.

Marion County is a county located in the U. S. state of Texas.

Marion County is in East Texas and is named for Francis Marion, the Revolutionary War general who was nicknamed the " Swamp Fox ".

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

* Inventory of the county archives of Texas: Marion County, no.

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* Corinth, Marion County, Texas, a ghost town

General Sam Houston, while President of the Republic of Texas, married Margaret Lea of Marion in the city in 1840.