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	Oran M. Roberts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oran Milo Roberts (1815–1898), was Governor of Texas from January 21, 1879 to January 16, 1883.
		Roberts County, Texas is partially named after him.
		Roberts on appropriations and expenditures under the control of the governor to the seventeenth legislature of the state of Texas, convened at the city of Austin, in regular session, January 11, 1881.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oran_M._Roberts (152 words)

	Oran Milo Roberts (1815-1898)
		Roberts was a strong advocate of secession, and was elected president of the Secession Convention that met in Austin in early 1861.
		Roberts strongly influenced Texas history as president of the Secession Convention of 1861, as Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court, and as Governor.
		After the war, Roberts became a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1866 and was elected to the U. Senate, but was refused his seat because of his Confederate service in the war.
	www.lsjunction.com /people/roberts.htm (302 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: ORAN, TX
		It is the opinion of old-timers that the name Oran was selected in honor of Governor Oran M. Roberts.
		Oran is located five miles northeast of Graford on Farm Road 52 in northeastern Palo Pinto County in a grazing and farming area that produces peanuts, corn, small grains, fruits, beef cattle, sheep, and poultry.
		Soon Oran had a gin that ran twenty-four hours a day during cotton-picking season, a livery stable, a skating rink, a weekly paper, three churches, a lumberyard, a restaurant, and four general stores.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/OO/hro22_print.html (333 words)

	11thTexasConfederateInfantryRegiment*"
		It was placed under the command of Colonel Oran M. Roberts (a later governor of Texas) and was invovled in several decisive engagements, not the least of which haulted the Red River Campaign and the Camden Expedition: two attempts by the Union to invade the state of Texas.
		The Battle of Bayou Bourbeau - One hour before daylight, all three infantry regiments were put under the command of Colonel Oran M. Roberts as he was the senior officer.
		Roberts decided to send out a battalion of skirmishers, which included Company C of the 11th as well as two companies from the 15th infantry regiment.
	www.bauer.uh.edu /parks/tex/irg0110.html (878 words)

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		Roberts was elected president of the Secession Convention of 1861, led an infantry regiment during the Civil War, and briefly served as chief justice of the Supreme Court (1864-1865).
		Roberts was admitted to the bar the next year, and served a term in the Alabama Legislature.
		Roberts practiced law in Tyler and Gilmer until he was reappointed to the Supreme Court in 1874.
	www.sipoftexas.org /biogovernors.php (8349 words)

	Tyler History
		Oran Roberts, as previously mentioned, served as president of the Texas Secession Convention, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and became a noted historian.
		A large number of Smith County notables, including the assembly president, Oran M. Roberts, attended the Secession Convention in Austin in early 1861.
		The raid on Harpers Ferry by John Brown and his band, together with a rash of mysterious barn and house fires in Northern Texas, excited the local population as the Secession Crisis and the Civil War loomed on the horizon.
	www.b17.com /scv/tyler.htm (873 words)

	Alcalde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The magazine was named for Oran M. Roberts, the governor who signed the university into existence and whose nickname was "the Old Alcalde."
		The Alcalde has been the alumni magazine of The University of Texas since 1913, and is published by the university's alumni association, the Texas Exes.
		This page was last modified 01:52, 1 January 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alcalde (144 words)

	Probative: Letter from a Great Great Uncle to an aspiring lawyer
		Oran M. Roberts was the Governor of Texas, Justice on the Texas Supreme Court, chaired the Texas Secession Convention, and was one of the first professors of Law at the University of Texas.
		Below I have retyped portions of a letter that was written by O.M. Roberts to one of his nephews.
		Roberts died in Marble Falls two years later, on May 19, 1898.
	probative.blogspot.com /2005/01/letter-from-great-great-uncle-to.html (527 words)

	Today@Sam SHSU News Online
		Sam Houston Normal Institute was established on April 21, 1879, when Texas Gov. Oran M. Roberts signed the legislation to create Texas’ first “Normal School” in Huntsville.
		Roberts was the principal speaker at that ceremony.
		Roberts began the first of his two terms as governor in 1879, 20 years after Sam Houston had held the same office.
	www.shsu.edu /~pin_www/T@S/2004/125Announce.html (628 words)

	Texas Cooperative Extension, The Roberts County Office
		The county was named after John S. Roberts, one of the original advocates of Texas independence, and Oran M. Roberts, former governor of Texas.
		Roberts County was created from the Young Territory in 1876, but was not organized until 1889.
		Roberts County is located in the Canadian River Valley in the eastern part of the Texas Panhandle.
	roberts-tx.tamu.edu (235 words)

	Colonel George M. Flournoy
		I say, secede from the Union." With Oran M. Roberts, Guy M. Bryan, W. Oldham, and John Marshall, Flournoy helped call a Secession Convention at Austin on December 3.
		FLOURNOY, GEORGE M. George M. Flournoy, state official and Confederate officer, was born in Louisville, Georgia, on November 30, 1832, the son of Marcus A. and Margaret (Shelman) Flournoy.
		He sat as a delegate to the convention from January 28 through February 4, 1861, and served as a coauthor of the declaration of causes for secession.
	www.angelfire.com /tx/RandysTexas/page79.html (272 words)

	TEXAS - Online Information article about TEXAS
		line of about 400 m., and are bordered along the Gulf of Mexico by a series of long narrow islands and peninsulas, or sandbars, which have been formed by the waves breaking on the shelving shore.
		For 20 M. or more inland in the N. and for 5o m.
		forest tree on the uplands of the Coastal Plain, north of the Colorado river, for too m.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /TAV_THE/TEXAS.html (5463 words)

	Chapter 1
		Professor Oran M. Roberts, A.M., LL.D., and Professor Robert S. Gould, A.M. Both Professor Roberts and Professor Gould received degrees from the University of Alabama and served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.
		So it was that Robert Lee Moore left the University of Texas, having taught there his last year and as he left to go to Marshall, before continuing in earnest his mathematical career, his mentor Halsted was nearing the end of his tenure at the University of Texas.
		So it was at the time Robert Lee Moore was about to make his way from the University of Texas to Marshall, Texas, with his mathematical career yet in its infancy, his first mentor, Halsted, was experiencing difficulty at Texas, coming toward the end of his career there.
	at.yorku.ca /i/a/a/b/21.dir/ch1.htm (11663 words)

	Paternal American Civil War Ancestors
		Robert Albert HIGH served in this regiment and was likely imprisoned at Camp Douglas near Chicago, Illinois; and exchanged at Vicksburg, Miss., 16 Oct 1862.
		A brief biography of James Robert "Jim" BOX, Sergeant, Company D, 14th Texas [Dismounted] Cavalry [ Johnson's ] Regiment is found on a separate webpage.
		The 14th Texas Infantry Regiment, also known as Clark's Regiment, was assigned to Horace Randal's and Robert P. Maclay's [Second] Brigade of John George Walker's Texas [Greyhound] Division, Trans-Mississippi Department.
	www.cemeteryworks.com /cwa_p.html (1593 words)

	City of Austin - Austin Treasures: Hyde Park
		Attracted to the new suburb by the recommendation of her friend, former Governor Oran M. Roberts, Elisabet Ney built her studio just south of Waller Creek in 1892.
		The creek was dammed to form a small lake and provided much pleasure to Ney and her friends who enjoyed rowing to its center or simply listening to the serenade of bullfrogs.
	www.ci.austin.tx.us /library/ahc/hydepark/ney.htm (332 words)

	Roberts (1965) Notes and Documents: The Battle of Bayou Bourbeau, November 3, 1863: Colonel Oran M. Roberts' Report.
		Roberts (1965) Notes and Documents: The Battle of Bayou Bourbeau, November 3, 1863: Colonel Oran M. Roberts' Report.
		Notes and Documents: The Battle of Bayou Bourbeau, November 3, 1863: Colonel Oran M. Roberts' Report.
	www.getcited.org /pub/103390184 (34 words)

	S.M. Williams and Texas Banking
		In 1859, Associate Justice Oran M. Roberts, speaking for the court, nullified the original 1835 charter, stating that Williams’s bank didn’t actually start doing business until 1848, which was three years after the state constitution prohibited such activity.
		Robert Mills also came under fire by the Attorney General, but his charges were dismissed due to the same reasons.
		Robert Mills’s defense lost in court, which only made it harder for Williams’s lawyers to win out this time.
	home.earthlink.net /~ehbiv/writing/bankpaper.html (3280 words)

	Chapter 22
		Governor Oran M. Roberts balanced the budget after he took office in 1879.
		Roberts insisted that the legislature cut PENSIONS (a wage paid to a person following his or her retirement from service) for veterans and funds for schools.
		By 1879, the debt had increased to $5.5 million.
	www.allenisd.org /facstaff2.nsf/Pages/E2BE9EAD096EECC186256B96005957D8 (932 words)

	cooper
		As improbable as it may seem, Oran Milo Roberts became the governor of Texas in 1878.
		October 24, 1894, Shelby Co., TX met (1) Oba ROBERTS (s/o Oran ROBERTS and Frances EDWARDS), met (3) George Washington LOVELL.
		Notes for HORTENSE M. Hortense M. Arnold (Roberts) is buried in Shepherd Cemetery, behind the Methodist Church, in Shepherd, San Jacinto Co., TX.
	www.geocities.com /tnbrat2/cooper.html (1862 words)

	Fort Tours Palo Pinto County Historical Markers
		In 1886 the community was renamed Oran in honor of Texas Governor Oran M. Roberts.
		Renamed Oran Cemetery when a new community name was selected in 1886, it includes the graves of Goodnight's mother Charlotte Sheek (1810-1882), Civil War veterans, pioneer settlers and early community leaders.
		Land for the cemetery was deeded by Silas Adam Sheek, stepfather of the noted Texas cattleman Charles Goodnight.
	www.forttours.com /pages/hmpalopinto.asp (3213 words)

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		A leader in the movement for secession, Bryan associated himself with Oran M. Roberts.
		He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860, and as chairman and spokesman for the delegation led in the split from the convention.
		George M. Flournoy, John F. Marshall, and Williamson S. Oldham in calling for the election of delegates to the Secession Convention.
	www.cemetery.state.tx.us /pub/user_form.asp?step=1&pers_id=401 (737 words)

	History of the Barker Texas History Collection
		The following year, the papers of former governor Oran Milo Roberts (1815-1898) came to the University after his death in Austin in May. Robert's ties with the University had been strong: the University opened during his term in office, and upon his retirement as governor he joined the faculty as a professor of law.
		Mattie Austin Hatcher, named University archivist in 1906, received her M. degree at the University and was a fellow in history from 1902 to 1904.
		Ernest W. Winkler, for example, received his M. degree at the University of Texas the year before he was hired to catalog the Bexar Archives.
	www.cah.utexas.edu /collectioncomponents/barkerhistory.html (11007 words)

	History of the XIT Ranch
		Oran M. Roberts called a special legislative session.
		It struck a bargain with Charles B. and John V. Farwell, brothers of Chicago, under which they agreed to build a $3,000,000.00 capitol and accept the 3,000,000 Panhandle acres in payment.
		Action dragged until fire destroyed the old capitol, November 9, 1881.
	www.xitmuseum.com /history.shtml (350 words)

	"Our Loose Ends" Genealogy Column
		Oran M. Roberts, Chapter 440, United Daughters of the Confederacy
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/2670/COLUMN-001.htm (762 words)

	News 4 -- The Daily Cougar Online
		Hines College of Architecture, that Field of Dreams sentiment was the driving force behind a summer of hard work and sweat, building an outdoor performing arts stage at Oran M. Roberts Elementary School.
		Sommer agreed the stage is a welcome addition to Roberts Elementary.
		The level one students in the Design/Build Studio graduate architecture course were responsible for the design and construction of the project, which had a budget of $36,000.
	www.stp.uh.edu /vol70/20/news/news4.html (626 words)

	The Right to Bear Arms in Texas: The Intent of the Framers of the Bills of Rights
		A new supreme court was formed with Oran M. Roberts, who in 1859 had considered the right to bear arms to be absolute, as its Chief Justice.
		Through the end of the War Between the States, the right to bear arms in Texas remained, as Justice Roberts had stated, "absolute." In the chaos that followed, Texas' first gun control laws were born.
		Diminish that liberty, therefore, and you necessarily restrain the right; and such is the diminution, and restraint, which the act in question most indisputably imports, by prohibiting the citizens wearing weapons in a manner which was lawful to wear when the constitution was adopted.
	www.guncite.com /journals/haltex.html (15611 words)

	Concise History of Columbiana
		Jesse C. Roberts was a physician, and came from St. Clair county where he had married the only daughter of a Mr.
		Robert A. Sterrett, the younger son, was a prominent lawyer, who died in Birmingham several years ago.
		Amos M. Elliott, who succeeded him, was a very prominent man in Columbiana the greater part of his life, figuring largely in the most interesting period of its history.
	www.rootsweb.com /%7Ealshelby/Columbiana.html (6296 words)

	9. Texas in the Latter Nineteenth Century: Part A (1865-1900)
		Oran M. Roberts, "The Experiences of an Unrecognized Senator." [Covers the period August 1866 to early January 1867.] [Written sometime after the fact and published in the Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association in 1908.] Recounts author's unsuccessful attempt to be seated as a United States senator from Texas in Washington.
		Roberts states that no Texas senator or representative will be seated during the present session of Congress.
		Notification that the Texas legislature has chosen O. Roberts as one of Texas' two United States senators.
	home.austin.rr.com /rgriffin/texhisdocs09a.html (2057 words)

	People Behind the Names R
		DAREL M. (1922-1943) Merchant seaman killed on the "S.S. Henry Knox" in the Indian Ocean 1943.
		ROBERT ROWAN (????-????) Captain in Revolutionary War from Bladen County, SC.
		BETSY ROSS (1752-1836) Seamstress who made the first United States flag.
	www.armed-guard.com /pbtnr.html (1142 words)

	Texas Secedes
		A group of fire-eaters headed by Oran M. Roberts [associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court], John A. Green and C. Johns were warning that if Lincoln and his sectional party won the election, Texas would secede from the Union.
		So secessionists Ford, Roberts and George Flournoy ignoring law and constitution issued their own call for a convention to assemble at Austin on January 28 [1861].
		Robert E. Lee was a U. Army Lieutenant Colonel serving in Texas.
	www.texasheroes.net /Rip%20Ford%2018.htm (939 words)

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