TEMPLE LEA HOUSTON (August 12th, 1860-August 15th, 1905) – This future gunslinging lawyer and last child of Sam Houston with his wife Margaret Lea-Houston was born in the Governor’s Mansion in Austin, TX. His storied father, the first president of the short-lived Republic of Texas was then serving as governor for the state of Texas.
Temple’s father died in 1863 and his mother passed away in 1867, from which point the boy was raised by his older sister and her family in Georgetown, TX. In 1873 he ran away to serve in a cattle drive from Texas to what is now North Dakota, then worked on a riverboat to earn his way back down south to New Orleans.
It was during this time that Temple met an old friend of his father, who arranged a job for the young man as a Senate Page in Washington, DC. Working in that capacity for 3 years, Temple developed an ambition to study law and enter politics himself someday. Continue reading
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