151025-9911StevieRayVaughan
The Vaughan Family Estate.
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151025-9912WilliamSwofford
William Swofford was a pop singer performing as Oliver. He is known for his 1969 song "Good Morning Starshine" from the musical Hair, and "Jean", the theme from the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. After his music career, he sold real estate and was a manager in a pharmaceutical company.
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151025-9918PatSummerall
George Allen "Pat" Summerall was a football player with the Lions and Giants, later a TV sportscaster. In addition to football, he announced major golf and tennis events. In total, he announced 16 Super Bowls, 26 Masters Tournaments, and 21 US Opens. He was named the National Sportscaster of the Year in 1977, inducted into the Sportswriters Hall of Fame, received the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award, and was inducted into the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame.
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151026-8004StephenFAustin
Stephen Fuller Austin was an American empresario born in Virginia and raised in southeastern Missouri. Known as the Father of Texas, he led the second colonization of the area by bringing 300 families to the region in 1825.
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151026-8005StephenFAustin
In addition, he worked with the Mexican government to support immigration from the US. Numerous places and institutions are named in his honor, including the capital of Texas, Austin.
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151026-8006JohnConnally
John Connally was an American politician. He was the 39th Governor of Texas, Secretary of the Navy under President Kennedy, and Secretary of the Treasury under President Nixon. As Treasury Secretary, Connally removed the US dollar from the gold standard in 1971. On November 22, 1963, Connally, at the time the Governor of Texas, was a passenger in the car in which President Kennedy was assassinated, and was seriously wounded during the shooting. In 1973 he switched parties to become a Republican, and ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for President in 1980.
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151026-8010AlbertJohnstonMarker
Albert Johnston plaque.
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151026-8011AlbertJohnston
Albert Sidney Johnston served as a general in three different armies - the Texian (Republic of Texas) Army, the US Army, and the Confederate States Army. He saw extensive combat during his military career, fighting in the Texas War of Independence, the Mexican-American War, the Utah War, and the American Civil War. He was the highest-ranking officer killed during the entire Civil War.
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151026-8012DarrellRoyal
Darrell K Royal was an American football player and coach. He was head coach at Mississippi State, the Univ of Washington, and U of Texas, compiling a record of 184–60–5. His teams won three national championships and 11 Southwest Conference titles. He never had a losing season. He was inducted into the College Football HoF as a coach in 1983. Darrell K Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, where the Longhorns play their home games, was renamed in his honor in 1996.
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151026-8013WillieWells
Willie Wells, nicknamed "The Devil", was an American baseball player. He was a shortstop and played from 1924-48 for various teams in the Negro leagues and in Latin America. He is a member of the baseball halls of fame in the United States, Cuba and Mexico.
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151026-8015WillieWells
He was also the first player to use a batting helmet after being hit and getting a concussion while playing with the Newark Eagles. His first helmet was a construction helmet. Stats include .319 career batting average, .510 slugging percentage, 98 HRs, 644 runs scored, 399 RBIs, and 756 games played.
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151026-8019WalterWebb
Walter Prescott Webb was a historian noted for his groundbreaking work on the American West. As president of the Texas State Historical Association, he launched the project that produced the Handbook of Texas. He is also noted for his early criticism of the water usage patterns in the region.
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151026-8020FredGipson
Frederick Gipson was an author, best-known for the 1956 novel Old Yeller, which became a popular 1957 Walt Disney film. After working farming and ranching jobs, he enrolled in 1933 at the University of Texas. There he wrote for the Daily Texan and The Ranger, but he left school early to become a newspaper journalist. In the 1940s, Gipson began writing short stories with a western theme, the prototype for his longer fiction that followed. Hound-Dog Man in 1947 became a Doubleday Book-of-the-Month Club selection and sold over 250,000 copies in its first year of publication and later made into a film in 1959.
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151026-8021AnnRichards
Dorothy Ann Willis Richards was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Texas. She came to national attention as the state treasurer of Texas, when she delivered the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Richards served as Governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995 and was defeated for re-election in 1994 by George W. Bush.
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151026-8023TomLandry
Thomas Wade Landry was an American football player and coach. He was an innovative coach, creating many new formations and methods such as 4-3 defense, and the "flex defense" system made famous by the "Doomsday Defense" squads he created during his 29-year career with the Dallas Cowboys. His 29 consecutive years as the coach of one team are an NFL record along with his 20 consecutive winning seasons. Landry won two Super Bowls, five NFC titles, 13 Divisional titles, and compiled a 270-178-6 record.
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