USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Convention of 1845 was called by Anson Jones to meet in Austin to consider the joint resolution of the United States Congress proposing the annexation of the Republic of Texas to the United States. The convention assembled on July 4, 1845. Thomas Jefferson Rusk was elected president of the convention, and James H.

Detailed explanation-2: -President Anson Jones signed the charter for Baylor University in the fall of 1845.

Detailed explanation-3: -Anson Jones was the last president of the Texas republic (1844–46). He was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1798. He studied medicine and after an itinerant business and medical career, went to Texas in 1833 and became a doctor.

Detailed explanation-4: -Texas was an independent country for 10 years in the 19th century. Physician and politician Anson Jones was the final president of the Republic of Texas, serving from 1844 to 1846.

Detailed explanation-5: -Jones was elected president of Texas in September 1844 and took office on December 9. He had made no campaign speeches, had not committed himself on the subject of annexation, and did not mention the subject in his inaugural address. After James K.