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    The Texas Governor's Mansion is a historic home for the governor of Texas in downtown Austin, Texas. Designed by prominent architect Abner Cook, it was...
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    The Governor of Texas heads the state government of Texas and is the highest elected official in the state. The governor is the leader of the executive...
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  • Service. 2009-03-13. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) "The Governor's Mansion". Alabama Department of Archives and History. Archived from the original...
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  • Texas: Governor's Mansion Texas Speaker's Apartment (at Texas State Capitol) Texas Lieutenant Governor's Apartment (prior to 1983 fire) (at Texas State...
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    The governor of Texas is the head of government of the U.S. state of Texas. The incumbent, Greg Abbott, is the forty-eighth governor to serve in the office...
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    the Texas State Preservation Board, which also operates the Texas State Capitol, the Texas Capitol Visitors Center, the Texas Governor's Mansion, and...
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  • (September 23, 2015). "New book takes peek at life inside Georgia Governor's Mansion". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved February 17, 2022. PresidentialMuseums...
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    Woodlawn, containing a mansion designed in 1853 by master builder Abner H. Cook (who also designed the Texas Governor's Mansion) for Texas State Comptroller...
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    Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Texas for murder, and participation in a felony resulting in death if committed by an individual...
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  • The Highwaymen (film) (category Films about the Texas Ranger Division)
    in Baton Rouge where the Old Louisiana Governor's Mansion acted as a stand in for the Texas Governor's Mansion. Production reportedly caused streets surrounding...
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    college. The cat moved with the Bushes to the White House from the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin in early 2001 following Bush's inauguration as president...
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    Dolph Briscoe (category Democratic Party governors of Texas)
    friendship with Governor Ross Sterling, the young Briscoe traveled to Austin and the Texas Governor's Mansion in 1932. At the age of nine, Governor Sterling...
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    S. state of Texas. It is the 11th longest river in the United States and the longest river with both its source and its mouth within Texas. Its drainage...
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    known as the Pease Mansion as well as Governor Shivers’ Mansion, is a pre-Civil War mansion located at 30.2871° -97.7581° in Austin, Texas. The Greek Revival...
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  • gates of the Texas Governor's Mansion with hundreds of supporters, the families of Willingham and De Luna delivered separate letters to Governor Perry asking...
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  • Antoinette Power Houston Bringhurst (category History of women in Texas)
    home near Huntsville, Texas. As a child, she lived in the Texas Governor's Mansion when her father served as Governor of Texas. Her youngest brother Temple...
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    Rita Crocker Clements (category Deaths from Alzheimer's disease in Texas)
    renovation of the Texas Governor's Mansion. She and the Governor founded the non-profit organization Friends of the Governor's Mansion to raise private...
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  • Porfirio Salinas (category Artists from Texas)
    displayed in the Texas State Capitol, the Texas Governor's Mansion and in a number of museums including the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas, and the Panhandle-Plains...
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    Cowboy cookies (category Texas culture)
    cookies were further popularized when First Lady Laura Bush baked "Texas Governor's Mansion Cowboy Cookies" for the First Lady Bake-Off during her husband...
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    Sam Houston and slavery (category History of slavery in Texas)
    enraged malcontents surrounded the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin. Around December 1860, Margaret closed the mansion doors to all but those with an invitation...
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    Ferguson". Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Retrieved 11 March 2012. McQueary, Carl (2003). Dining at the Governor's Mansion. Texas A & M University...
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    Cecilia Phalen Abbott (category First ladies and gentlemen of Texas)
    Abbott family lives in the Texas Governors Mansion in Austin, Texas. They have two dogs: Pancake, known as the First Dog of Texas, and Peaches, known as the...
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    Illinois Governor's Mansion in Springfield, the state capital. Its first occupant was Governor Joel Aldrich Matteson, who took residence at the mansion in 1855...
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    Ima Hogg (category People from Brazoria County, Texas)
    the first inauguration in the newly erected Texas State Capitol. The family moved into the Governor's Mansion. Built in 1855, the building was in poor condition...
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  • recorded during the 20th and 21st centuries. June 8 – Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin, Texas, was heavily damaged by an arson attack during an extensive...
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  • Sam Houston Jr. (category People from Independence, Texas)
    (1858). Temple Lea (1860), was the only Houston child born in the Texas Governor's Mansion. He received his basic education through home schooling from his...
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    Southeast Texas, but soon reserves were found across Texas and wells were constructed in North Texas, East Texas, and the Permian Basin in West Texas. Although...
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    Price Daniel (category Democratic Party governors of Texas)
    Daniel, Price; Daniel, Jean Houston; Blodgett, Dorothy (1984). Texas Governor's Mansion. Texas State Library and Archives Commission. ISBN 978-0-938368-01-4...
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  • Abner Cook (category Architects from Texas)
    Austin, such as the Texas Governor's Mansion. He also designed the west wing of the original main building of the University of Texas at Austin (since demolished)...
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    Nellie Connally (category Burials at Texas State Cemetery)
    her tenure as First Lady, Connally created the gardens at the Texas Governor's Mansion and also collected the state silver. On November 22, 1963, Connally...
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