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Anson Jones

The Last President of Texas
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1964

About this book

This is the story of a New Englander who came penniless to Mexican Texas in 1833 and within the next decade helped to bring his adopted country through the turbulent disorders of settlement, revolution, political experimentation, and statehood.

Within a year of his arrival, Anson Jones was successfully practicing medicine, acquiring land, and resolving to avoid politics; but then the Revolution erupted and Jones became a private in the Texas Army, doubling as surgeon at San Jacinto. Military duty done, he resumed medical practice but some acts of the First Congress so irked him that he became a member of the Second and began a political career that lasted from 1837 to 1846 during which he served successively as congressman, minister to the United States, Texas senator, secretary of state, and president of the Republic of Texas. Anson Jones took his own life on January 9, 1858.

Told with imagination and insight, Herbert Gambrell's account of the life of Anson Jones is also a colorful and concurrent biography of Texas and its people.

Author / Editor information

Herbert Gambrell (1898–1982) was a professor of history at Southern Methodist University.

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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

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    FOREWORD

    XVII
    William R. Hogan
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    PROLOGUE

    1
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    I THIRTEENTH CHILD

    3
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    II BROTHERLY LOVE IN PHILADELPHIA

    13
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    III NADIR

    19
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    IV MR. AUSTIN'S TEXAS

    25
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    V FIVE THOUSAND A YEAR

    37
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    VI AN ANXIOUS OBSERVER

    47
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    VII 1836

    56
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    VIII BRAZORIA

    78
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    IX A MAMMOTH SCHEME

    86
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    X THE CITY OF HOUSTON

    95
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    XI MR. JONES OF B.

    101
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    XII GUIDE, PHILOSOPHER, FRIEND

    111
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    XIII ANNEXATION?

    120
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    XIV THE THREAD

    133
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    XV JEANNETTE

    149
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    XVI MR. LAMAR'S TEXAS

    159
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    XVII LIKE CERTAIN FEVERS

    167
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    XVIII THE CITY OF AUSTIN

    177
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    XIX SOME COURTLY LANGUAGE

    183
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    XX NOT BY MY VOTE . . .

    196
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    XXI FAREWELL TO POLITICS

    203
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    XXII WITHOUT MONEY, WITHOUT CREDIT . . .

    213
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    XXIII SECRETARY OF STATE

    227
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    XXIV MR. HOUSTON'S TEXAS

    237
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    XXV WASHINGTON-ON-THE-BRAZOS

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    XXVI ARMISTICE

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    XXVII AN UNCERTAIN DIE

    285
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    XXVIII THE ABSORBING QUESTION

    305
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    XXIX SECRET, DARK AND DILIGENT

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    XXX WARY AS FOXES

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    XXXI INTERLUDE

    353
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    XXXII THE PRESIDENT

    365
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    XXXIII ALTERNATIVES

    388
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    XXXIV MR. JONES'S TEXAS

    405
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    XXXV MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

    420
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    EPILOGUE

    437
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    NOTES

    441
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    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    505
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    521
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    INDEX

    523
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