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Message from the President Executive Director's Page Fellows Column Columns Lead Articles Message from the President Fellows Column Alcaldes in Austin’s Colony, 1821-1835 By Dale Wainwright By David J. Beck By Jason Boatright The Spring has been Our acclaimed judicial Texas trial courts were interesting and civics and history book created before Texas productive for the Taming Texas: How Law was a state, before it Society. The Board and Order Came to the was a republic, before meeting was filled with Lone Star State continues it was part of Mexico, reports on the Society’s to be taught in schools before, even, it was part Hon. Dale David J. Beck projects and programs. Wainwright throughout Houston. of Spain. Read more... Stephen F. Austin Read more... Read more... San Jacinto Justice: The Future Executive Director’s Page Executive Editor’s Page By Sharon Sandle By David A. Furlow Supreme Court Judges Who Won Texas This edition of the Queen Victoria made Her Freedom at San Jacinto Journal focuses on Texas decisions that touched By Dylan O. Drummond during the Victorian era. every aspect of Texas Twenty-eight men served as either Texas history during economics, history, Chief Justice or this period is preserved culture, and law, yet, Associate Judge of mostly through strangely, are often Sharon Sandle David A. Furlow the Republic of Texas handwritten documents, ignored today. Supreme Court. Yet only but it is now more accessible than in Read more... seven bled in the boggy any prior age. Read more... marshes of San Jacinto to ensure that the Texas San Jacinto Supreme Court could monument someday be founded. Read more... Book Review Reconstruction Politics and the Reconsidering James Collinsworth, Jason Gillmer’s Slavery and Freedom Galveston Seven: The Struggle to the Texas Supreme Court’s First in Texas: Stories from the Courtroom, Appoint a Judge in the Eastern District Chief Justice 1821-1871 of Texas, 1869-72, Part 2 Reviewing Roy S. Newsom, Jr. and James B. Book Review by Daina Ramey Berry and Rachel E. Winston By Stephen Pate Collinsworth, Jr., Too Good to Be True: We learn about the President Grant was James Collinsworth and the complexities of slavery to appoint one of the and how people of greatest patronage Birth of Texas multiple backgrounds prizes available—a By James W. Paulsen encountered the law in federal judgeship. History has not a narrative that takes us No fewer than seven been kind to James President Ulysses through the antebellum nominations would be Collinsworth. Among S. Grant period and beyond made before the spot other things, his actual Chief Justice into the early years of was filled. Read more... gravesite is unmarked. James Read more... Collinsworth Reconstruction in Texas. Read more... Features News & Events A Double-Hitter at the Spring 2018 Board U.S. Fifth Circuit Chief Judge Carl E. New San Felipe de Austin Museum Meeting: Harriet Miers and the George Stewart Will Keynote Hemphill Dinner is a State Treasure W. Bush Presidential Center By Marilyn P. Duncan By Ken Wise The Honorable Carl E. On April 27, the Texas By Cynthia K. Timms Stewart, Chief Judge Historical Commission Harriet Miers of the United States hosted the opening of reminiscing about her Court of Appeals for the the newest museum in time at the White House Fifth Circuit, will be the Texas at the San Felipe and a visit to the George principal speaker at the Chief Judge de Austin State Historic W. Bush Presidential Visitors at the Society’s Twenty-Third Carl Stewart Site. Read more... Center were the opening Annual John Hemphill featured events at the Harriet Miers Dinner. Read more.. Society’s meeting. Read more... Law and the Texas Frontier Laying Down the Law at the 2018 TSHA Joins the Society’s Taming Texas Series By Marilyn P. Duncan Supreme Spouses Annual Meeting Written with seventh- By Dylan O. Drummond By David A. Furlow grade Texas history Tobi and Evan Young Historians, lawyers, and students in mind, are not the only power members of the public the new book tells couple in Texas in which spoke highly of our the story of how life each spouse has clerked Society’s “Laying Down on the vast frontier for the High Court. In the Law in Early Texas” of Texas required The panel fact, there are four presentation. presentation creative approaches to Supreme Spouses who U.S. Supreme Read more... maintaining law and order. Read more... Court building reside and practice here in Texas. Read more... Membership & More MARK YOUR CALENDAR: The Society Nominations Welcomed for the 2018 Calendar of Events Will Commemorate the Great War Texas Appellate Hall of Fame Officers, Trustees & Court Liaison on November 14 By Jackie Stroh The Appellate Section 2017-18 Member Upgrades By David A. Furlow is now accepting Nearly one hundred nominations for the 2017-18 New Member List years ago, on November Texas Appellate Hall of 11, 1918, the guns that Fame. The Hall of Fame Join the Society had blazed for four and The early Texas posthumously honors one half years on the Supreme Court advocates and judges who made a Visit the Society on Twitter and Facebook! Western Front fell silent. Courtoom, site of the lasting mark on appellate practice in Read more... @SCOTXHistSocy Commemoration the State of Texas. Read more... FB: Texas Supreme Court Historical Society © 2018 Texas Supreme Court Historical Society Message from the President Hon. Dale Wainwright he Spring has been interesting and productive for the Society. The Board of TTrustees met on March 28 in the Greenberg Traurig offices in Dallas, and the agenda was filled with reports on the Society’s projects and programs. Many of those activities are described elsewhere in this Journal and show the range of our organization’s outreach. I’ll highlight some of them here. The Society created a Great War Commemoration Committee, and Judge Mark Davidson agreed to chair it. The committee is planning an exciting event this Fall in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. On November 14, 2018, the Society will commemorate the contributions of the seven Texas Supreme Court Justices, two Court of Criminal Appeals Judges, and two Texas Governors who fought in the Great War. Other committee members are Marcy Greer, our incoming president; executive director Sharon Sandle; trustees Warren Harris and David Furlow; and archivist Caitlin Bumford. More about the event will be announced in the coming months. The Society’s session at the Texas State Historical Association’s annual meeting on March 8, 2018, was outstanding. The featured speakers were Society board members Justice Jason Boatright and Dylan Drummond, who offered intriguing stories and power point presentations about Stephen F. Austin’s legal legacy and the future Supreme Court justices who fought in the Battle of San Jacinto. David Furlow organized the session and served as commentator. I am grateful to Justice Craig Enoch for serving as moderator for the session. The Society’s annual participation in this statewide conference makes an important contribution to legal Justice Dale Wainwright (center) stands with (left to right) history and continues to raise the Cynthia Timms, Marcy Greer, Harriet Miers, Tobi Young, Society’s profile among the state’s and Judge Sue Walker during the tour at the Bush leading historians. Presidential Center. 1 Another highlight of the Spring board meeting was the luncheon discussion with Harriet Miers. Ms. Miers shared insights from her long and distinguished career in law and government, including her successful bid to become the first woman elected as president of the State Bar of Texas, her service as White House Counsel to President George W. Bush, and her decision to withdraw her name as President Bush’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. Miers’s association with President Bush’s administration made her the ideal guide for our post-meeting tour of the George W. Bush Presidential Center located on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas. I greatly appreciate the time and unique perspectives that Harriet shared with our board—it was a memorable experience for all of us. THE HON. DALE WAINWRIGHT is a shareholder with Greenberg Traurig, LLP and chairs its Texas Appellate Practice Group. He is a former Justice on the Supreme Court of Texas. Return to Journal Index 2 Executive Director’s Page Gateways to Texas History Are Open to All Sharon Sandle his edition of the Journal of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society focuses on Texas Tduring the Victorian era. But when most people think of Texas during the nineteenth century, they don’t immediately think of Queen Victoria. The only familiar connection between Victoria and Texas in the mind of most Texans is probably the city of Victoria in Victoria County. But both the city and the county were named after General Guadalupe Victoria, the first president of independent Mexico, not after Queen Victoria.1 Although the beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign coincided with the birth of the Republic of Texas, the two events seem separated by more than just an ocean. Queen Victoria did have an interest in events in the Republic of Texas, though. James Hamilton was commissioned by President Mirabeau B. Lamar to negotiate with France, Holland, and England for a five million dollar loan to the Republic. In spite of securing recognition of the Republic from England and Holland, Hamilton wasn’t successful in securing the loan.2 However, he negotiated three treaties between the Republic of Texas and Britain in 1840: one concerning commerce and navigation, one providing for British mediation between Texas and Mexico, and one calling for suppression of the slave trade.
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