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OCT. 22, 1836: IGNAGURATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS Two hundred and thirty days after the Battle of The Alamo and one hundred and eighty four days after the Battle of San Jacinto, The Republic of Texas had its first duly elected President, Sam Houston. Prior to Oct. 22, 1836, the Republic was run by an ad interim government with David Burnet as President and Lorenzo de Zavala as vice president. Sam Houston brand of humor: Accusing a Senator of branding a man by the use of an innuendo, Houston gave an illustration: A manufacture of bologna sausage accused a man whom he had discharged of spreading a report that the manufacturers sausage was made of dog meat. The accused man protested: I never said any such thing, but I will tell you what I did say. I said that where bologna sausages are plentiful, dogs are scarce. (Photos and humor courtesy of Sam Houston Memorial Museum)
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