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    Temple Lea Houston (August 12, 1860 – August 15, 1905) was an American attorney and politician who served from 1885 to 1889 in the Texas State Senate....
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    Margaret Lea Houston (April 11, 1819 – December 3, 1867) was First Lady of the Republic of Texas during her husband Sam Houston's second term as President...
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    lawyer of Texas and Oklahoma Territory, Temple Lea Houston (1860–1905), the youngest son of General Sam Houston. Temple is located at the intersection of Oklahoma...
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    Temple Houston is an American Western television series starring Jeffrey Hunter as real-life 19th century Texas lawyer Temple Lea Houston. It ran for...
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    watering hole and also as a brothel. In 1894, Temple Lea Houston, former Texas state senator and son of Samuel Houston, moved his law practice and family to Woodward...
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    the famous Texas hero and statesman Sam Houston and his wife Margaret Lea Houston, and was named for his father's mentor Andrew Jackson. He served briefly...
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  • The Soiled Dove Plea was a speech delivered by the attorney Temple Lea Houston on behalf of a prostitute, Minnie Stacey, in 1899 in Woodward, Oklahoma...
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  • Senator from Alabama in 1879 Sam Houston (1793–1863), U.S. Senator from Texas from 1846 to 1859 Temple Lea Houston (1860–1905), Texas State Senate Senator...
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  • Moffette Lea (1780–1864) was the mother of Margaret Lea Houston and mother-in-law of Sam Houston. She was an integral member of the Houston family, running...
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  • Temple Hardy (1765–1814), British Royal Navy officer; grandson of Temple Stanyan Temple Lea Houston (1860-1905), youngest son of Sam Houston Temple F...
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    as circuit-riding Texas lawyer Temple Lea Houston, the youngest son of Sam Houston, in the NBC series Temple Houston (1963–1964), which Hunter's production...
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  • character of Yancey Cravat is based on Temple Lea Houston, last child of Texas icon Sam Houston. Temple Houston was a brilliant trial lawyer known for...
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  • John Houston (1689 or 1690 – 1754) was an Irish-born American planter. He immigrated from Ireland to Colonial America in the 1730s. During the voyage...
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  • and coach Tate Houston (1924–1974), American saxophonist Temple Lea Houston (1860-1905), American attorney and politician Thelma Houston (born 1946), American...
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  • when her father served as Governor of Texas. Her youngest brother Temple Lea Houston was born in the mansion. She received an education at Baylor Female...
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    That same year, Webb sold Temple Houston to NBC. The show, starring Jeffrey Hunter, followed the exploits of Temple Lea Houston, a circuit-riding lawyer...
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  • Price Daniel Jr. (category Sam Houston)
    that dated back to his great-great-great grandparents Sam Houston and Margaret Lea Houston. At the time of his birth, his father Marion Price Daniel Sr...
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  • Joshua Houston (c. 1822–1902) was born into slavery in about 1822 on the Perry County, Alabama plantation owned by Temple Lea and Nancy Moffette Lea, parents...
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    interests of Texas to secede from the Union over slavery. Houston and his wife, Margaret Lea Houston, relied on slaves to perform household, agricultural,...
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    wounded, in a shootout with rival attorney Temple Lea Houston. Jennings left Woodward following Houston's acquittal in 1896 and wandered before gaining...
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  • Houston, would later send their children to Baylor to be educated. Some of those early students were Temple Lea Houston, son of President Sam Houston...
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  • Sam Houston Jr. (May 25, 1843–1894) was the oldest of eight children born to Sam Houston and Margaret Lea Houston, and was the only Houston child born...
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    town of Mobeetie in Wheeler County, where Timothy Dwight Hobart and Temple Lea Houston were early settlers, grew beside it. Among the troops serving there...
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    Sam Houston Tollway Ship Channel Bridge (formerly known as the Jesse H. Jones Memorial Bridge) is a span in Harris County, Texas. It was acquired from...
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    Sam Houston Race Park is a horse racing track located in unincorporated northwest Houston, Texas, United States. The park hosts both Thoroughbred and...
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    The Sam Houston Award Medal is a medal within the awards and decorations of the Texas State Guard Nonprofit Association that may be awarded to a member...
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  • former mayor of San Antonio Temple Lea Houston, son of Sam Houston, District Attorney, and state legislator Andrew J. Houston, U.S. Senator from Texas (1941);...
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    March 26, 2016. Seale, William (April 1992). Sam Houston's Wife: A Biography of Margaret Lea Houston. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-2436-0...
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    Tom Blue (category Sam Houston)
    personal servant and coachman of Sam Houston, who purchased Blue prior to his marriage to Margaret Lea. He worked for Houston for nearly 30 years. In the fall...
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  • Samuel Houston. Temple Lea Houston (1860–1905), member of the Texas Senate 1885. Son of Sam Houston and Brother of Andrew Jackson Houston. Price Daniel...
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