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Chaos wanes as Houston administration replaces ad interim government
On this day in 1836, the ad interim government ended with the inauguration
of Sam Houston as president of the Republic of Texas. The Convention of
1836 had declared independence and framed a constitution for Texas, but
the advance of the Mexican army made immediate ratification and
establishment of constitutional government impossible. The last act of the
convention was the selection of an ad interim government on March 16 with
David G. Burnet, president; Lorenzo de Zavala, vice president; Samuel P.
Carson, secretary of state; Bailey Hardeman, secretary of treasury; Thomas
J. Rusk, secretary of war; Robert Potter, secretary of the navy; and David
Thomas, attorney general. This temporary government, without any
legislative or judicial departments, fled with the people in the Runaway
Scrape, and was located successively at Washington-on-theBrazos,
Harrisburg, Galveston Island, Velasco, and Columbia.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- AD INTERIM GOVERNMENT
- HOUSTON, SAMUEL
- BURNET, DAVID GOUVERNEUR
- RUNAWAY SCRAPE
- REPUBLIC OF TEXAS
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