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New land use policies drafted during the administration of Governor John Ireland enabled individuals to accumulate land leading to the formation of large cattle ranches Many ranchers ran barbed wire around public lands to protect their access to water and free grazing This caused several range wars. Governor Lawrence Sullivan Ross guided the Texas Legislature to reform the land use policies. 9 Education The present Alley Theatre building opened in November 1968 and contains two stages the main stage has 824 seats and is called the "Hubbard"; the more intimate 310-seat stage is the "Neuhaus." Outside there are nine towers and open-air terraces Inside a staircase spirals from the entrance vestibule to the second-floor lobby the theatre was constructed in a large part by a $1.4 million grant from the Ford Foundation to support innovative theater architecture and the prime architect on the project was Ulrich Franzen, Northeast Gulf of Mexico which extends from a point east of the Mississippi River Delta near Biloxi to the eastern side of Apalachee Bay.

Main articles: Texas Revolution Convention of 1836 Texas Declaration of Independence Treaties of Velasco and Republic of Texas Since 1980 most Texas voters have supported Republican presidential candidates in 2000 and 2004 Republican George W Bush won Texas with respectively 59.3 and 60.1 percent of the vote partly due to his "favorite son" status as a former governor of the state John McCain won the state in 2008 but with a smaller margin of victory compared to Bush at 55 percent of the vote Austin Dallas Houston and San Antonio consistently lean Democratic in both local and statewide elections. ; 10.1 Land use politics In 1860 most Houstonians supported John C Breckinridge an independent Democratic candidate for president However he lost the election to Abraham Lincoln As the Civil War began there was tension between supporters of the Confederacy and the few Union sympathizers the Chamber of Commerce kept the city together during the conflict Galveston was blockaded on October 4 1862 which in turn soured Houston's economy on January 1 1863 John B Magruder's Confederate forces recaptured the city However the war was won by the Union forces in 1865 Texas was governed under a military command during Reconstruction but Federal forces could not control the anarchy and lawlessness that broke out after the war Civilians settled old grudges and several counties were essentially without civilian government, A reproduction of the original Come and take it flag which flew during the battle of Gonzales 17 External links. Further information: List of newspapers in Houston List of television stations in Houston and List of radio stations in Houston; District Attorney Kim Ogg Democratic, Houston Texas Business Directory, 147 Garnet Coleman Democratic 1990 Downtown Houston inner southeastern portions of Houston (mainly west of I-45) Eastern Montrose Midtown Third Ward. A bungalow in Houston 2011 estimate, Commissioner Precinct 3 Steve Radack Republican Some of Houston's oldest and most distinctive architecture are found in the northern sections of downtown as the city grew around Allen's Landing and the Market Square historic district where several representations of 19th-century urban architecture still stand. . .