After serving as Sam Houston’s vice-president, this man became the second president of the Republic of Texas.
- Anson Jones
- David G. Burnet
- Mirabeau B. Lamar
- Stephen Austin
Mirabeau B. Lamar who had previously served as secretary to the governor of Georgia and as editor of a states-rights newspaper. As Texas president, he plunged the republic deeply into debt. Texas was its own republic for nine years.
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