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	Gonzales, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gonzales is one of the earliest Anglo-American settlements in Texas.
		It was to Gonzales that Susanna W. Dickinson, widow of one of the Alamo defenders, and Joe, the slave of William B. Travis, fled with news of the Alamo massacre.
		The population rose to 1,703 in the 1860 census, 2,900 by the mid-1880s, and 4,297 in 1900.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gonzales,_Texas (755 words)

	Alberto Gonzales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gonzales was raised in Houston, Texas and born on August 4,1955.
		Gonzales was an attorney in private practice from 1982 until 1994 with the Houston law firm Vinson and Elkins, where he became a partner.
		Gonzales was confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 60-36 on February 3, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alberto_Gonzales (2015 words)

	The Anniston Star - The president’s ‘yes man’ — Down in Texas, Alberto Gonzales was a willing executioner
		Gonzales doesn’t inform Bush that Washington’s incompetent attorney never called a mental health expert to testify, never advised the jury that his client was retarded, or that he had an IQ between 58 and 69 and been beaten with whips, water hoses, extension cords, fan belts and wire hangers as a child.
		Gonzales’ 18-sentence summary failed to note that a key witness recanted after Stoker’s conviction (explaining that he’d been pressured by the prosecution to present perjured testimony) and that the state’s star witness received a financial reward for fingering Stoker, had felony drug and weapons charges dropped and therefore had an obvious motive for accusing Stoker.
		Gonzales also didn’t tell Bush that this witness and two police witnesses lied under oath at trial, that the state’s expert medical witness pleaded guilty to seven felonies involving falsified evidence and that the state’s psychiatric witness, whose testimony was essential to securing a death sentence, never even interviewed Stoker.
	www.annistonstar.com /opinion/2004/as-insight-1124-0-4k23q5034.htm (917 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gonzales, Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gonzales County is a county located in the state of Texas.
		The Texas Revolution was a war fought from October 2, 1835 to April 21, 1836 between Mexico and the Tejas portion of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas.
		The Battle of Gonzales was a skirmish that took place on October 2, 1835, in the Texas town of Gonzales between the Texian settlers and a detachment of Mexican army.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gonzales,-Texas (1587 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: GONZALES, TX
		Gonzales, the county seat of Gonzales County, is at the confluence of the Guadalupe and San Marcos rivers, on U.S. highways 90, 97, and 183 in the north central part of the county.
		The Gonzales Inquirer was established in 1853 and was one of the six oldest county papers still operating in Texas in 1995.
		Gonzales was incorporated in 1880 and had six churches, daily mail service, four schools, a courthouse, two banks, a 500-seat opera house, a library, gas and water works, several lodges, gristmills, cotton gins, several stores, and a population of 2,900 in 1884.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/hfg6.html (789 words)

	Gonzales, Texas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gonzales is most famous as the "Lexington of Texas" because it was the site of the first skirmish of the (Click link for more info and facts about Texas Revolution) Texas Revolution.
		Gonzales later contributed thirty-two men to the ill-fated defense of the (The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico) Alamo.
		The population rose to 1,703 in the 1860 (A period count of the population) census, 2,900 by the mid-1880s, and 4,297 in 1900.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Go/Gonzales,_Texas.htm (938 words)

	MSN Encarta - Gonzales, Alberto
		In a January 2002 memo Gonzales wrote that the war on terrorism had “rendered obsolete” the Geneva Conventions’ strict prohibitions on questioning of enemy prisoners and urged the president to declare that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to these prisoners.
		Gonzales also solicited and reportedly approved other memos written by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) of the Justice Department that argued for a narrow definition of torture and claimed the president had broad powers to detain suspected terrorists and override existing laws as commander in chief.
		Gonzales and other Bush administration officials denied that torture had ever been approved, pointing to a February 2002 memo from the White House that said prisoners would be treated “humanely” and according to the “principles” of the Geneva Conventions.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701712156/Gonzales_Alberto.html (843 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: GONZALES COUNTY
		Gonzales County (C-37) is south of Austin on U.S. highways 87, 90, 90A, and 183 and Interstate Highway 10.
		Gonzales County, named for the capital of Green DeWitt's colony, was established in 1836 and organized in 1837 as one of the original counties in the Republic of Texas.
		Gonzales County was also involved in the outlaw conflicts of the late 1860s and 1870s and witnessed numerous lynchings.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/hcg7.html (3576 words)

	Gonzales, Texas - All Info About Gonzales, Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gonzales is one of Texas' historic small towns, a town that played a major role in the Texas Revolution, and a city that today embraces its past with a large collection of impressively restored historic homes and buildings.
		Gonzales was established in 1825 on the Kerr Creek, just more than 2 miles from the confluence of the Guadalupe and San Marcos rivers.
		Gonzales is in South-Central Texas, south of Austin and east of San Antonio, nearly equidistant from the two major metropolises.
	texas.allinfoabout.com /cities/gonzales.html (204 words)

	Gonzales , Texas
		Gonzales was established in 1825 on Kerr Creek, 2 1/2 miles east of the confluence of the San Marcos and Guadalupe Rivers.
		It was the capital of Empresario Green DeWitt's Colony and was the westernmost Anglo settlement until the close of the Texas Revolution.
		Gonzales became a melting pot of ethnic backgrounds, with Mexican families settling alongside the members of Green DeWitt's Colony.
	www.allacrosstexas.com /Gonzales.htm (499 words)

	USATODAY.com - Tough questions await Gonzales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gonzales, 49, will face a barrage of questions about a January 2002 memo in which he called the war on terrorism "a new kind of war" that requires the United States to go to unusual lengths to get information about potential terrorist plots.
		Gonzales is expected to win confirmation this month and become the first Hispanic to be the nation's chief law enforcement officer.
		Gonzales is regarded as a potential nominee for a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-01-04-gonzales-questions_x.htm (1274 words)

	USATODAY.com - Upbringing in Texas helped shape Gonzales' views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gonzales, who would be the nation's first Hispanic attorney general, was one of eight children.
		Gonzales, 49, said he was raised among Democrats, which helps explain his moderate GOP positions on a range of issues.
		Gonzales argued that a governor should not have to serve on a jury in a criminal case because he someday might have to make clemency decisions.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2004-11-10-gonzales-profile_x.htm (915 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Washington / As Texas judge, Gonzales heard donors' cases
		WASHINGTON -- When White House counsel Alberto Gonzales was a Texas Supreme Court justice running to stay in office in 2000, he took thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from companies that had business before him and he did not recuse himself from voting on their cases.
		Gonzales had been appointed to the bench in 1999 by then-Governor George W. Bush, but had to run in 2000 to keep his seat.
		Phillips declined to comment on whether Gonzales should have accepted the contributions, other than to say that it can be difficult to keep track of every company and law firm that has or may have business before the court.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2005/01/27/as_texas_judge_gonzales_heard_donors_cases?mode=PF (1085 words)

	Gonzales Inquirer Online
		After a high-speed chase halfway across the county, Gonzales police and other officers caught a 16-year-old male who was driving a truck believed to have been stolen in connection with a residential burglary.
		A Gonzales man was ordered Friday to serve a 27-year term in federal prison after pleading guilty to drug trafficking charges.
		The Gonzales County Senior Citizens Association is sponsoring presentations on the Medicare prescription drug plan to be presented at three locations in the county.
	www.gonzalesinquirer.com (340 words)

	Old Gonzales Eighteen
		Initially the Gonzales cannon was said to be buried in George W. Davis' peach orchard prior to its recovery and use in the confrontation.
		Davis was Secretary of the Gonzales Committee of Safety and authored the September appeal for assistance to the Committee in Mina and San Felipe.
		He was appointed alcalde of the Gonzales Ayuntamiento of 1832 by commissioner Jose Antonio Navarro, appointed by the Ayuntamiento of 1833 with B.D. McClure to appraise lots in inner Gonzales and served as a primary judge in the Ayuntamiento of 1834.
	www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/oldgonzales18.htm (4770 words)

	Gonzales, Texas; Historic Gonzales.
		Gonzales is the only town of its size to retain its name from Spanish rule.
		In return, Gonzales was burned to the ground in "The Runaway Scrape" and survived flood, other fires and John Hardin (who behaved himself both times he called Gonzales home).
		Gonzales is undergoing a skin shedding of sorts, with many houses undergoing restoration, following the lead of their magnificent courthouse.
	www.texasescapes.com /TOWNS/GONZALES/town_gonzales.htm (763 words)

	Loyal to a Fault? - The Senate should hold Alberto Gonzales accountable for his bad legal advice. By Phillip Carter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		And Gonzales' meteoric rise may not stop there—he's widely considered to be on Bush's shortlist for nomination to the Supreme Court.
		Then-Gov. Bush assigned Gonzales a critical role in the clemency process—asking him to provide a legal memo on the morning of each execution day outlining the key facts and issues of the case at hand.
		Gonzales played a key role in the decision to use Guantanamo Bay as a global detention facility because it was believed to be outside the reach of U.S. courts and the rule of law.
	slate.msn.com /id/2109495 (1180 words)

	newspapers gonzales texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gonzales declined to comment on whether her agency was informed about Penny...
		He appointed Gonzales Texas secretary of state, then to the Texas Supreme Court, where he distinguished himself as a...
		Gonzales County, Texas TX, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy,...
	www.thebestnewsinfo.com /49/newspapers---gonzales-texas.html (286 words)

	Gonzales to face Iraq, death penalty questions - Politics - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gonzales’ confirmation “may be the only remaining forum in which to examine more fully the steps that were taken to weaken U.S. policy on torture in the period that led to the prison scandals at Abu Ghraib and Afghanistan,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.
		Gonzales was part of Bush’s inner circle of advisers during the executions of Terry Washington, a mentally retarded killer, in 1997 and Karla Faye Tucker, a pickax murderer for whom Pope John Paul II sought clemency, in 1998.
		Gonzales drew criticism after the terrorist attacks in 2001 when he wrote a memo in which Bush claimed the right to waive anti-torture law and international treaties protecting prisoners of war.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6451896 (874 words)

	Gonzales Texas, Cradle of Texas Indpendence
		Gonzales is known as the Birth Place of Texas, conceived as a dream in the minds of men like Moses Austin, his son Stephen F. Austin and Green DeWitt.
		By 1845 Texas was ready to join the United States and found herself faced with the Civil War.
		Texas would have to rebuild after the war between the states but the dream had just begun.
	www.firstshotphoto.com /texas.htm (478 words)

	St. James Inn Bed and Breakfast in Gonzales, Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ideally located in historical Gonzales, Texas, the "Lexington of Texas," the St. James Inn Bed and Breakfast offers a casual elegance to delight the most discriminating traveler.
		Relax in the parlor, rest in the spacious and cozy bedrooms, inhale the history from a capacious porch and feast on a delectable four course breakfast.
		THIS is Texas all wrapped up in the biggest little City at the edge of the West.
	www.stjamesinn.com (114 words)

	Texas Cooperative Extension, The Gonzales County Office
		The Gonzales County office is supported by the Gonzales County Commissioners Court and the Texas Cooperative Extension.
		Gonzales County, the "Cradle of Texas Independence" is rich in Texas history.
		Gonzales County is one of the leading agricultural counties in Texas.
	gonzales-tx.tamu.edu (279 words)

	Bush's 'Blind' Justice in Texas Executions
		When Bush was governor of Texas he routinely denied last-ditch pleas for clemency on execution day by systematically hearing no evidence, seeing no evidence, and sealing himself away from any tragic possibility that any evil was done at all.
		Gonzales intended for the memos to be confidential, but author Alan Berlow obtained them under Texas public information law.
		On execution day, all that Gonzales presented Bush was a three-page memo in which the only mention of the petition was that it had been rejected by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/0702-04.htm (968 words)

	John Fauth Guest Cottage, Gonzales, Texas - A Thousand Bed and Breakfast Inns - Weekend Getaways * Bed and Breakfast * ...
		Gonzales was founded in the frontier of gentle rolling hills west of the Colorado river in 1825 and named for the governor of the Mexican states of Coahuila and Texas.
		The battle cry for this "first shot of the Texas revolution" was "Come and Take IT!" A year later, Santa Anna did just that when he returned to the Alamo with an army of thousands.
		Gonzales was the only town that responded to Col. Travis' frantic plea for re-enforcements.
	www.1000inns.com /usa/texas/johnfauth (475 words)

	Gonzales, Texas Historical Timeline
		Only eighteen men, known as "The Old Eighteen", were in Gonzales at the time and again refused to surrender the cannon.
		During the night of October 1, 1835, 168 men forded the river and on the morning of October 2, 1835, the first shot for Texas independence was fired.
		Alamo survivor Susanna Dickenson, wife of Almaron Dickenson who died in the Alamo, returned to Gonzales bringing General Sam Houston the news that all Alamo defenders had perished.
	www.texasbob.com /texdoc17.html (433 words)

	Gonzales, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is located near the confluence of the and Guadalupe rivers.
		It was established by Green DeWitt as the capital of his colony in August 1825 and named for Rafael Gonzales, governor of Coahuila y Tejas.
		He had the town burned and ordered a retreat, thus precipitating the.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Gonzales,_Texas (772 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Dean: White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales's Texas Execution Memos
		The Gonzales execution memos raise serious - and, unfortunately ugly - questions, not because of what they say, rather because of what they fail to say.
		From 1995 to 1997, Gonzales acted as his legal counsel when the then-Governor decided whether to grant clemency, or to allow the executions to go forward.
		Gonzales claimed to Berlow that his execution briefings had always provided Bush a "detailed factual background of what happened," along with "other outstanding facts or unusual issues." Berlow's review of the memos themselves, however, belied that claim.
	writ.news.findlaw.com /dean/20030620.html (1522 words)

	Gonzales, Texas - Information and Links provided by L K Cattle Company, Inc.
		In 1825 Green DeWitt established a colony on the confluence of the Guadalupe and San Marcos Rivers.
		Gonzales earned its place as the "Lexington of Texas" a decade later when the first shot for Texas Independence was fired.
		Gonzales is the only remaining town in Texas that has retained the same plan as surveyed by the Mexican Government in 1832.
	www.lkcattle.com /gonzales.htm (183 words)

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