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.

One month later, Johnston was promoted to major and the position of aide-de-camp to General Sam Houston.

* 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

* 1836 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto – Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

In 1916, while stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Eisenhower was football coach for St. Louis College, now St. Mary's University.

In June 1941, he was appointed Chief of Staff to General Walter Krueger, Commander of the 3rd Army, at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.

* Fort Sam Houston News Leader ( Texas )

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

* 1793 – Sam Houston, American politician ( d. 1863 )

* 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.

* 1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.

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.

In the late 1830s, Sam Houston negotiated a peace between Texas and the Comanches.

To " protect " the Texas national archives, President Sam Houston ordered them removed from Austin.

Sam Houston ordered 500 militia to help end the feud.

Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin depicted on a 1936 US postage stamp commemorating 100th anniversary of the Texas Republic

* 1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

* Sam Houston

* July 26 – Sam Houston, first President of the Republic of Texas ( b. 1793 )

* President Sam Houston ( Republic of Texas )

* President Sam Houston ( Republic of Texas )

* March 2 – Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas ( d. 1863 )

* April 22 – Texas Revolution: Forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

* September 5 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

Sam Rayburn was a good man, a good American, and, third, a good Democrat.

Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

Under any name -- Mr. Speaker, Mr. Democrat, Mr. Sam -- he was a good man.

`` Uncle Sam '' was, indeed, a rich uncle to Prokofieff, in those opulent, post-war victory years of peace and prosperity, bold speculations and extravaganzas, enjoyment and pleasure: `` The Golden Twenties ''.

The charge that the federal indictment of three Chicago narcotics detail detectives `` is the product of rumor, combined with malice, and individual enmity '' on the part of the federal narcotics unit here was made yesterday in their conspiracy trial before Judge Joseph Sam Perry in federal District court.

) But Speaker Sam Rayburn, after huddling in Palm Beach with President-elect Kennedy, decided that this year something had to be done about the Rules Committee -- and that he was the only man who could do anything effective.

He'd have to think, but the main thing, the imperative necessity, was to leave before Sam Bentley was up and about, and before Millie detained him with sympathy.

" When the final payment on the farm was owed, Sam May refused to cover his brother-in-law's debts, as he often did, possibly at Abby May's suggestion.

The Ark was taken by the Philistines ( 1 Sam.

The people of Ashdod were smitten with hemorrhoids ; a plague of rats was sent over the land ( 1 Sam.

The affliction of boils was also visited upon the people of Gath and of Ekron, whither the Ark was successively removed ( 1 Sam.

The Ark was set in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite, and the Beth-shemites offered sacrifices and burnt offerings ( 1 Sam.

David's plan of building a temple for the Ark was stopped at the advice of God ( 2 Sam.

The Ark was with the army during the siege of Rabbah ( 2 Sam.

11: 11 ); and when David fled from Jerusalem at the time of Absalom's conspiracy, the Ark was carried along with him until he ordered Zadok the priest to return it to Jerusalem ( 2 Sam.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

He was of great service to David, especially at the time of the rebellion of Absalom ( 2 Sam.

When his father was slain with the priests of Nob, he escaped, and bearing with him the ephod, he joined David, who was then in the cave of Adullam ( 1 Sam.