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6 unusual facts about Mirabeau B. Lamar


George Wilkins Kendall

Kendall traveled to Texas in 1841 and joined the Texas Santa Fe Expedition that had been initiated by Republic of Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar to gain control over the Santa Fe Trail and to secure Texas claims to New Mexico.

Mirabeau B. Lamar

His name is used as the honorary of the military academy in Preston Jones' play The Oldest Living Graduate, which is part of A Texas Trilogy

Lamar County, in northeast Texas, and Lamar, a small unincorporated community in Aransas County on the Texas Gulf Coast, are both named for Mirabeau Lamar.

Lamar served in Managua for twenty months before returning to Texas in October 1859 because of poor health.

Texan schooner San Jacinto

In 1838, President Mirabeau B. Lamar responded to this threat by forming a second Texas Navy.

Workman-Temple family

A few years later, when the independent Republic of Texas and its president, Mirabeau B. Lamar, sought to extend its boundary to the Rio Grande, thereby annexing the principal towns of New Mexico, Workman and Rowland were named agents of the Texans in New Mexico.


Angelina Eberly

On October 18, 1839, President Mirabeau B. Lamar and his cabinet dined in her tavern and his successor, Sam Houston, resided at Eberly House rather than the presidential mansion.

Caleb Huse

While living in Europe, Huse worked closely with a network of Confederate agents and representatives, including William L. Yancey, Walker Fearn, Pierre Adolphe Rost, Ambrose Dudley Mann, L. Q. C. Lamar, Edward C. Anderson, and James D. Bulloch, with money funneled to them from the Confederacy through Fraser, Trenholm & Co., of Liverpool and its American counterparts.

Lamar River

During that survey, Geologist Arnold Hague named the river for L.Q.C. (Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus) Lamar, then Secretary of the Interior (March 1885 - January 1888).

Texan schooner San Antonio

Commodore Moore dispatched her to pick up Francis R. Lubbock, a survivor of President Mirabeau B. Lamar's Santa Fe expedition, who had escaped his captors and made his way to Yucatan.

William Lamar

William H. Lamar (1853–1928), American lawyer and politician in Maryland


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