05 Nov 2018 Andrew Jackson Hamilton ANDREW JACKSON HAMILTON was born in Huntsville, Alabama. After being admitted to the Bar in Alabama, he moved to LaGrange, Texas and opened a law office. He was appointed Attorney… National Governors Association
05 Nov 2018 James Webb Throckmorton JAMES WEBB THROCKMORTON was born in Sparta, Tennessee. His family moved to Arkansas when he was eleven and to Texas five years later. At the age of nineteen Throckmorton traveled… National Governors Association
05 Nov 2018 Edmund Jackson Davis EDMUND JACKSON DAVIS was born in St. Augustine, Florida, and moved with his widowed mother to Galveston, Texas at the age of eleven. He studied law and practiced in Laredo,… National Governors Association
05 Nov 2018 Richard Coke RICHARD COKE was born in Williamsburg, Virginia and graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1849. After being admitted to the Bar the following year, he moved to… National Governors Association
05 Nov 2018 Richard Bennett Hubbard RICHARD BENNETT HUBBARD was born in Walton County, Georgia. He graduated in 1851 with distinguished honors from Mercer College in Macon, Georgia and from Harvard Law School in 1853. He… National Governors Association
05 Nov 2018 Oran Milo Roberts ORAN MILO ROBERTS was born in Laurens District, South Carolina but moved with his family to Alabama as a child. In 1836 he graduated from the University of Alabama (where… National Governors Association
05 Nov 2018 John Ireland JOHN IRELAND was born in Millerstown, Hart County, Kentucky. In his late teens he held the office of constable and was Deputy of Hart County from 1847 to 1850. He… National Governors Association
05 Nov 2018 Lawrence Sullivan Ross LAWRENCE SULLIVAN ROSS was born in Bentonsport, Iowa. His family moved to Texas in 1839, ultimately settling in Waco. Ross attended Baylor University in Waco and graduated from Wesleyan University… National Governors Association
05 Nov 2018 James Stephen Hogg The first native Texan to become governor, JAMES STEPHEN HOGG was born at Mountain Home, the family estate near Rusk, Texas. He was educated in private schools and studied law.… National Governors Association
05 Nov 2018 Charles Allen Culberson CHARLES ALLEN CULBERSON was born in Dadeville, Alabama. His family moved to Texas when he was a small child. Culberson graduated from Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia in 1874… National Governors Association
05 Nov 2018 Joseph Draper Sayers JOSEPH DRAPER SAYERS was born in Grenada, Mississippi. He attended Bastrop Military Institute from 1852 to 1860, after which he served in the Confederate Army as Major of the 5th… National Governors Association
05 Nov 2018 Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham SAMUEL WILLIS TUCKER LANHAM was born in Spartanburg District, South Carolina. He attended public school in South Carolina but later moved to Texas, where he studied law and was admitted… National Governors Association
