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Jose Antonio Navarro

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300 W. Third Ave., Courthouse grounds, Corsicana, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 32° 5' 42.04286000016", -96° 28' 5.64277000008"
 
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     Lover of liberty. Foe of despotism. Born in San Antonio, Texas, February 27, 1795. Died January 13, 1871 and buried there. Member of the Legislature of Coahuila and Texas, 1821; land commissioner of De Witt's colony 1831 and of Bexar District, 1834-1835; signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; member of the Congress of the , 1838-1839; a commissioner of the Santa Fe Expedition, 1841; member of the Constitutional Convention of 1845; senator in the Legislature of Texas, 1846-1849. Navarro County gratefully bears his name. Corsicana was named by him for the isle of his father's birth - Corsica.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

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