Anson Jones : The Last President of Texas / Herbert Gambrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gambrell, Herbert, Author.

Contributor:

Hogan, William R., Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 p.)

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

PROLOGUE

I THIRTEENTH CHILD

II BROTHERLY LOVE IN PHILADELPHIA

III NADIR

IV MR. AUSTIN'S TEXAS

V FIVE THOUSAND A YEAR

VI AN ANXIOUS OBSERVER

VII 1836

VIII BRAZORIA

IX A MAMMOTH SCHEME

X THE CITY OF HOUSTON

XI MR. JONES OF B.

XII GUIDE, PHILOSOPHER, FRIEND

XIII ANNEXATION?

XIV THE THREAD

XV JEANNETTE

XVI MR. LAMAR'S TEXAS

XVII LIKE CERTAIN FEVERS

XVIII THE CITY OF AUSTIN

XIX SOME COURTLY LANGUAGE

XX NOT BY MY VOTE . . .

XXI FAREWELL TO POLITICS

XXII WITHOUT MONEY, WITHOUT CREDIT . . .

XXIII SECRETARY OF STATE

XXIV MR. HOUSTON'S TEXAS

XXV WASHINGTON-ON-THE-BRAZOS

XXVI ARMISTICE

XXVII AN UNCERTAIN DIE

XXVIII THE ABSORBING QUESTION

XXIX SECRET, DARK AND DILIGENT

XXX WARY AS FOXES

XXXI INTERLUDE

XXXII THE PRESIDENT

XXXIII ALTERNATIVES

XXXIV MR. JONES'S TEXAS

XXXV MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

EPILOGUE

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Mar 2025)

ISBN:

9780292766990

OCLC:

1511484742