Œuvres de L.L. Foster
The Forgotten Texas Census: The First Annual Report of the Agricultural Bureau of the Department of Agriculture,… (2001) — Auteur — 9 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Foster, L.L.
- Nom légal
- Foster, Lafayette Lumpkin
- Date de naissance
- 1851-11-27
- Date de décès
- 1901-12-02
- Lieu de sépulture
- Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Texas A&M University) campus, College Station, Texas, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Cumming, Forsyth County, Georgia, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Cumming, Forsyth County, Georgia, USA
Horn Hill, Limestone County, Texas, USA
Springfield, Limestone County, Texas, USA
Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas, USA - Études
- Waco University
- Professions
- cotton picking
brick laying
founder and publisher of the Limestone New Era newspaper, Groesbeck, Texas
representative in the Seventeenth Legislature, State of Texas (1880)
speaker of the House in the Nineteenth Legislature, State of Texas
appointed to commissioner of insurance, statistics, and history, State of Texas (by Gov. Lawrence S. Ross) (tout afficher 10)
appointed to commissioner of Agriculture, State of Texas (by Gov. Lawrence S. Ross)
appointed to first Railroad Commission, State of Texas (1891) by State Attorney General James S. Hogg
vice president and general manager of the Velasco Terminal Railway
president of Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Texas A&M University), 1898 to 1901 (date of death) - Courte biographie
- Foster married Laura Pender on January 2, 1875, and they had five sons and two daughters. The family belonged to the First Baptist Church in Groesbeck. Foster was a member of the Groesbeck Masonic Lodge, where he served for a time as worshipful master. He died of pneumonia on December 2, 1901, and was buried on the Texas A&M campus.
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- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 9
- Popularité
- #968,587
- ISBN
- 1