Raymond Martinez Attorney At Law

One of the primary motivations for annexation was the Texas government's huge debts the United States agreed to assume many of these upon annexation However the former Republic never fully paid off its debt until the Compromise of 1850 in return for $10 million a large portion of Texas-claimed territory now parts of Colorado Kansas Oklahoma New Mexico and Wyoming was ceded to the Federal government, Various companies are headquartered in incorporated and unincorporated areas throughout Harris County Trade. .

. 1940 6,414,824 10.1% Missouri City (mostly in Fort Bend County), Houston Texas Business Directory January 11 1973: 2.0 inches (5.1 cm) of snow. Robert Altman's 1970 comedy film Brewster McCloud is set at the Astrodome: the eponymous hero is an eccentric young man who lives at the stadium, 1870 818,579 35.5% Determined to control politics in the state reduce competition from Republicans and Populists and close blacks out of politics in 1901 the Democrat-dominated state legislature passed a poll tax as a requirement for voting Given the economic difficulties of the times the poll tax caused participation by African Americans poor whites and Mexican Americans to drop sharply effectively disenfranchising more than one-third of the population of the state!