Later Years
After Texas annexation by the United States, he was elected to the Texas Legislature. Fifteen years later, as the Civil War loomed, Maverick supported Sam Houston in his call to support the Union. Nevertheless, he voted for secession as a member of the convention. Shortly afterward, he accompanied Philip N. Luckett and another Texas commissionary of safety to negotiate with U.S. Army General David E. Twiggs for the peaceful surrender of Federal garrisons in Texas.
Maverick was not active in politics during the Civil War but afterward helped John H. Reagan to organize the Democratic Party once more.
He died on September 2, 1870 and is interred at San Antonio City Cemetery No. 1.
Maverick County, Texas is named for him. U.S. Representative from Texas Maury Maverick (1896–1954) was his grandson.
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