Navarro is the sole Hispanic delegate to the Convention of 1845, where Texas accepts U.S. president James K. Polk'sproposal for annexation. Navarro helps to write the first state constitution ...
A: At about 268,596 square miles, Texas has reigned as America’s largest state from the time it was admitted, as the twenty-eighth state, on December 29, 1845, to the time Alaska was admitted, as the ...
This resolution was accepted and Texas entered the Union as a slave state on December 29, 1845. James Pinckney Henderson became the state's first governor. Tejano Civil Rights The struggles behind ...