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Convention considers annexation
On this day in 1845, the convention to consider the joint resolution of
the United States Congress proposing the annexation of the Republic of
Texas to the United States assembled in Austin. Thomas Jefferson Rusk
was elected president of the convention, and James H. Raymond was
secretary. By a vote of fifty-five to one, the delegates approved the
offer of annexation. Richard Bache of Galveston was the lone dissenter.
Subsequently, the convention prepared the Constitution of 1845 for the
new state. Rusk appointed several committees to examine legislative,
executive, judicial, and general provisions of the constitution, as well
as a committee of five to prepare convention rules. Of the fifty-seven
delegates elected to the convention, eighteen were originally from
Tennessee, eight from Virginia, seven from Georgia, six from Kentucky,
and five from North Carolina. Considered the most able body of its kind
ever to meet in Texas, the convention included men of broad political
experience such as Thomas J. Rusk, James Pinckney Henderson, Isaac Van
Zandt, Hardin R. Runnels, Abner S. Lipscomb, Nicholas H. Darnell, R. E.
B. Baylor, and José Antonio Navarro. The convention adjourned on August
28, 1845.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- CONVENTION OF 1845
- ANNEXATION
- REPUBLIC OF TEXAS
- RUSK, THOMAS JEFFERSON
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