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. . Houston Texas Business Directory, Louis Wigfall lived in Nacogdoches Nacogdoches County and Marshall Harrison County, Just after midnight on February 27 Urrea's men surprised Johnson's forces Six Texians including Johnson escaped; the remainder were captured or killed. After learning of Grant's whereabouts from local spies Mexican dragoons ambushed the Texians at Agua Dulce Creek on March 2. Twelve Texians were killed including Grant four were captured and six escaped. Although Urrea's orders were to execute those captured he instead sent them to Matamoros as prisoners! The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates some correctional facilities in Harris County including:, Lyndon B Johnson Texan and 36th president of the United States, This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (July 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message). . ! Beginning around the mid-20th century Texas began to transform from a rural and agricultural state to one urban and industrialized the state's population grew quickly during this period with large levels of migration from outside the state. As a part of the Sun Belt Texas experienced strong economic growth particularly during the 1970s and early 1980s. Texas's economy diversified lessening its reliance on the petroleum industry by 1990 Hispanics overtook blacks to become the largest minority group in the state, Welcome to Praha Texas "Czech Capital of Texas".

Mormon 1 The 2003 Texas redistricting of Congressional districts led by Republican Tom DeLay was called by the New York Times "an extreme case of partisan gerrymandering" a group of Democratic legislators the "Texas Eleven" fled the state in a quorum-busting effort to prevent the legislature from acting but was unsuccessful the state had already redistricted following the 2000 census Despite these efforts the legislature passed a map heavily in favor of Republicans based on 2000 data and ignoring the estimated nearly one million new residents in the state since that date Career attorneys and analysts at the Department of Justice objected to the plan as diluting the votes of African American and Hispanic voters but political appointees overrode them and approved it. Legal challenges to the redistricting reached the national Supreme Court in the case League of United Latin American Citizens v Perry (2006) but the court ruled in favor of the state (and Republicans). The First Congress of the Republic of Texas established Harrisburg County on December 22 1836 the original county boundaries included Galveston Island but were redrawn to its current configuration in May 1838. The made-for-TV movie Murder at the World Series was filmed here about a fictional 1977 World Series between the Astros vs Oakland Athletics East Aldine. ! On Friday November 22 1963 in Dallas Texas at 12:30 pm Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) Lee Harvey Oswald an alienated loner assassinated President John F Kennedy the Texas Governor John B Connally was also shot but survived the episode caused a national outrage focused on right wing elements in Dallas that had long been hostile to Kennedy. For a half-century and more the people of Dallas still struggle with being branded as having some responsibility the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza located where the assassin is believed to have fired the shots has become a historic tourist site. ! Big Tex presided over every Texas State Fair since 1952 until it was destroyed by fire in 2012. History Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, Top 10 Non-English languages spoken in Texas, 10.5.2.1 Vaccination policy Houston is a member of the World Energy Cities Partnership a collaboration between 13 energy focused cities around the world.