USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Anson Jones (January 20, 1798 – January 9, 1858) was a doctor, businessman, member of Congress, and the fourth and last President of the Republic of Texas.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jones, Anson (1798–1858). Anson Jones, doctor, congressman, and the last president of the Republic of Texas, son of Solomon and Sarah (Strong) Jones, was born at Seekonkville, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on January 20, 1798.

Detailed explanation-3: -Anson Jones was the last president of the Republic of Texas. Known as the “Architect of Annexation, ” readers will discover how Jones was influential in bringing Texas into the Union and how injury and unfulfilled political ambitions led to his tragic downfall.

Detailed explanation-4: -On September 5, 1836, Sam Houston is elected as president of the Republic of Texas, which earned its independence from Mexico in a successful military rebellion.

Detailed explanation-5: -Lamar thought independence would stick. Either way, in 1839, the capital was moved to Waterloo and renamed after Texas’s most senior founding father, Stephen F. Austin.