This Date In Texas History - December 21

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This Date In Texas History - December 21

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1821 - Mary James Long was born at Bolivar Peninsula, and was long believed to be the first Anglo baby born in Texas.

1847 - George Tyler Wood took office as the second governor of the state of Texas. The Georgia native had fought in the Creek Indian War at the battle of Horseshoe Bend.

1853 - The Texas legislature passed the Mississippi and Pacific Railroad Act, designed to encourage the construction of a southern transcontinental railroad through Texas. The act authorized Governor Peter H. Bell to request proposals for a railroad from the eastern boundary of Texas to a point at or near El Paso.

1859 - Sam Houston is inaugurated as Governor of Texas. He has served as Governor and US Congressman from Tennessee, President of the Republic of Texas, US Senator of the State of Texas. Texas now has a population of 600,000.

1861 - The state legislature established the Frontier Regiment to patrol west of the line of settlements from the Red River to the Rio Grande. Less than a month later, the Confederate Congress authorized the secretary of war to receive the regiment into Confederate service for the protection of the Indian frontier of Texas. President Jefferson Davis vetoed the bill, however, because it withheld the control of the executive of the Confederate States over the troops.

1882 - Edith Wilmans is born. She is elected to the Texas House in 1922, the first woman to serve in that capacity.

1944 - The new Pecos High Bridge in West Texas was opened downriver from the original, which for years had been the highest railroad bridge in North America.
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