List of People From Texas - Founders of The Republic of Texas

Founders of The Republic of Texas

• Augustus Chapman Allen (1806–1864) and John Kirby Allen (1810–1838), the founders of Houston
• Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836), the "Father of Texas"
• John Neely Bryan (1810–1877), the founder of Dallas
• Moses Austin Bryan (1817–1895), early settler of Texas
• David G. Burnet (1788–1870), an interim President of the Republic of Texas
• Henri Castro (1786–1865), a Jewish empresario
• Jesse Chisholm (1806–1868), Indian trader, guide, interpreter, namesake of the Chisholm Trail
• Jao De La Porta, trader, financed settlement of Galveston Island
• Sam Houston (1793–1863), the first and the fourth President of Republic of Texas, later a U.S. Senator from Texas and the Governor of Texas
• Anson Jones (1798–1858), last President of the Republic of Texas, called the "Architect of Annexation"
• Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798–1859), second President of Republic of Texas
• Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long (1798–1880), considered to be "the Mother of Texas"
• Jose Antonio Navarro (1795–1871), Texas statesman, revolutionary and politician
• Cynthia Ann Parker (1826–1870), kidnapped in 1836 and raised by Comanche Indians. Mother to Quanah Parker, the last Comanche Chief
• Emily Austin Perry (1795–1851), early settler of Texas
• Alfredo Rodriguez (1798–1851), Texas soldier, general, and statesman
• Thomas Jefferson Rusk (1803–1857), Secretary of War of Republic of Texas, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, U.S. Senator from Texas after its admission to the United States
• Edwin Waller (1800–1881) a judge and a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence
• Lorenzo de Zavala (1788–1836), first vice-president of the Republic of Texas and a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence