{"id":34,"date":"2019-03-16T13:56:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T13:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2019-04-14T13:58:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T13:58:30","slug":"march-16-1861-sam-houston-removed-as-governor-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"March 16, 1861 – Sam Houston Removed As Governor Of Texas."},"content":{"rendered":"

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On this day in 1861, Maryville, Tennessee, son, Sam Houston, was expelled from the office of Governor of Texas for refusing to take a loyalty oath to the Confederacy when Texas seceded against his wishes. Houston, who was also a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Andrew Jackson, an Indian agent, Tennessee governor, and president of the Republic of Texas, retired from public life and died soon after, having never witnessed Texas\u2019 re-admittance to the Union.<\/p>\n

Houston was the only person elected to governor in one state (Tennessee), then elected president of a foreign country (the Republic of Texas), then elected governor in another state (Texas).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On this day in 1861, Maryville, Tennessee, son, Sam Houston, was expelled from the office of Governor of Texas for refusing to take a loyalty oath to the Confederacy when Texas seceded against his wishes. Houston, who was also a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Andrew Jackson, an Indian agent, Tennessee governor, and president of the Republic of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personalities","category-the-civil-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6TX4A-y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}