Anson Jones Chief Bowles

Edwin Moore

Jack Coffee Hays

Stephen F. Austin

Jose Antonio Navarro

Mary Maverick

Mirabeau Lamar

Sam Houston

William Goyens

1. Born in Virginia, he was governor of Tennessee in the 1820s, President of the Republic of Texas, Senator from the State of Texas, and the Governor of the State of Texas.

2. A Georgia-born Texas politician, he was the first Vice-President and the Second President of the Republic of Texas.

3. He was a Cherokee chief during the Cherokee-American Wars of the late 1700s, and was a leader of the Texas Cherokees in the early 1800s.

4. This 19th century Spanish-born politician represented Coahuila and Texas when it was part of Mexico, a leader of the Texas Revolution, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, and was part of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition in 1841.

5. He was an African American who lived in Nacogdoches, Texas, for most of his life. During the Texas Revolution he kept good relations with the Cherokee and served as an interpreter for Sam Houston.

6. He was the fourth and final President of the Republic of Texas (1844-1846).

7. He was the commander in chief of the navy of the Republic of Texas (1839-1843), leading attacks on Mexico in 1840.

8. Nicknames "Bravo-Too-Much," he was a captain in the Texas Rangers, an officer in the Mexican War, and later led a group of "Forty Niners" from Texas to California.

9. This person was part of an early group of pioneers who settled San Antonio, and was also an eyewitness to the Council House Fight in 1840.

10. In the fall of 1836, he was defeated in a bid for the presidency, but he served as Secretary of State until his death on December 27, 1836.