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Biography

Explore the history of Texas through the lives of leading political figures—governors, power brokers, reformers, and rogues. For anyone curious to understand Texas’s political system and evolution, this is a good place to start.

This section is a work in process and more biographies will be added.

W.P. Hobby: Texas Governor Who Backed Women’s Suffrage and Alcohol Ban
20th Century HistoryBiographyGovernors of Texas

W.P. Hobby: Texas Governor Who Backed Women’s Suffrage and Alcohol Ban

Governor H.R. Runnels: Arch-Secessionist and Rival of Sam Houston
Annexation and Statehood (1845-1860)BiographyGovernors of TexasThe Civil War

Governor H.R. Runnels: Arch-Secessionist and Rival of Sam Houston

Jim Hogg: The Governor Who Challenged the Railroad Barons
BiographyGovernors of TexasThe Courthouse Era (1875-1900)

Jim Hogg: The Governor Who Challenged the Railroad Barons

Peter H. Bell: Frontier Soldier and Expansionist Texas Governor
Annexation and Statehood (1845-1860)BiographyGovernors of Texas

Peter H. Bell: Frontier Soldier and Expansionist Texas Governor

“Pappy” O’Daniel: Populism and Political Theater in Depression-Era Texas
20th Century HistoryBiographyGovernors of Texas

“Pappy” O’Daniel: Populism and Political Theater in Depression-Era Texas

J. Pinckney Henderson: Diplomat and First Texas Governor
Annexation and Statehood (1845-1860)BiographyEarly Leaders of TexasGovernors of Texas

J. Pinckney Henderson: Diplomat and First Texas Governor

O.B. Colquitt: From Poverty to the Texas Governor’s Mansion
BiographyGovernors of Texas

O.B. Colquitt: From Poverty to the Texas Governor’s Mansion

James Throckmorton: The Texas Governor Ousted by the U.S. Army
BiographyGovernors of TexasThe Reconstruction Era (1865–1874)

James Throckmorton: The Texas Governor Ousted by the U.S. Army

The Forgotten Governorship of S. W. T. Lanham
20th Century HistoryBiographyGovernors of Texas

The Forgotten Governorship of S. W. T. Lanham

Governor Pendleton Murrah and the Collapse of the Confederacy
BiographyGovernors of TexasThe Civil War

Governor Pendleton Murrah and the Collapse of the Confederacy

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