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Texaco is an American oil brand owned by Chevron Corporation since 2001. It was founded in 1902 in Texas and became one of the Seven Sisters of the global petroleum industry.
Jim Hogg (1851-1906) was a lawyer and statesman who served as the 20th Governor of Texas and the seventh Attorney General of Texas. He was a follower of the New South Creed and a populist reformer who regulated railroads, insurance companies, and alien land ownership.
Mexican Texas was the name of Texas when it was part of Mexico from 1821 to 1836. Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, and Texas was combined with Coahuila to form the state of Coahuila y Tejas.
Learn about the history and features of the Texas Constitution, the seventh in the state's history and the second-longest in the U.S. The constitution establishes the government structure, rights, and powers of the state and has been amended 517 times since 1876.
The Constitution of the Republic of Texas was the supreme law of Texas from 1836 to 1845, when Texas was an independent republic. It was modeled after the US Constitution and the constitutions of several southern states, and it protected slavery and excluded "Indians" and "Africans" from citizenship.
Torkild Rieber was a Norwegian immigrant who became the chairman of Texaco in 1935. He was involved in oil deals with fascist regimes in Europe, including Nazi Germany, and resigned in 1940 after his ties were exposed.
Under the 1824 Constitution of Mexico, Texas was denied independent statehood and merged into the new state Coahuila y Tejas. After growing suspicion that the United States government would attempt to seize Texas by force, in 1830 Mexican President Anastasio Bustamante enacted the Law of April 6, 1830 which restricted immigration and called for ...
Learn about the history of Texas from precontact indigenous people to the present day, covering six countries' claims, Spanish and French colonization, Mexican Texas, Texas Revolution, statehood, Civil War, Reconstruction, and modernization.