When was houston capital of texas

A capital-site commission selected a site near La Grange, Fayette County, in and Congress passed a bill to build the capital there, but Houston vetoed it.

The commission purchased 7, acres along the Colorado River comprising the hamlet of Waterloo and adjacent lands. Austin was approved as the capital on January 19, President Mirabeau B. Lamar and his cabinet arrived in Austin on October 17, Fearing an attack on Austin by the Mexicans, President Houston ordered the government to return to Houston on March 13, Washington-on-the-Brazos became capital by executive order in September of that year, and the order spawned the Archives War when President Houston attempted to move the archives from Austin.

The Constitution of provided that Austin be capital until , when a vote was required to choose the permanent capital. Austin received 7, votes, a majority.

Of course, that upset Austinites. In an apparent knee-jerk reaction, a "vigilante committee of residents" took arms and threatened to turn their guns on their fellow Texans tasked with moving the official documents, according to the historical association. Yes, Austin's hatred for Houston was so strong that they threatened to shoot Texas rangers sent by the president to grab some papers. Houston ordered the rangers to grab the documents but not cause any bloodshed.

In a not-at-all-surprising move, the so-called committee was unprepared to take any action by the time the rangers arrived. Houston's crew secured the archives and left the city in December By January , the committee of vigilantes had stolen more firepower and cornered the rangers just outside the city.

Even though some of Stephen F. Galveston Island was the fourth capital of Texas. The Spanish discovered the island sometime in the s. Stephen F. Austin petitioned the Mexican Government in to establish Galveston as a port but the island remained unoccupied until when a Mexican customhouse was established.

The Island Read more. Harrisburg was designated as the third capital of Texas. A heated controversy between Saltillo and Monclova ensued. When the issue was placed before President Santa Anna, he favored Monclova. The conventions of and , as well as the Consultation of met at San Felipe, which continued to be the official headquarters until March 1, This convention, in which all powers of sovereignty were claimed and exercised, adopted the Declaration of Independence on March 2.

They also wrote a constitution and inaugurated executive officers. As Mexican troops moved eastward after their victory at the Alamo, President Burnet and part of his cabinet boarded the steamboat Cayuga at Harrisburg on April 15, , making it the de facto capital of the Republic until the Texas officials went ashore at Galveston on April The capital then moved to Velasco until October. In October , Columbia today's West Columbia became the first capital of an elected government of the Republic of Texas.

President Houston, on Dec.