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Brooke Valentine is an American pop singer and song writer. She was born in 1984 at Houston, Texas. After being a member of a band called 'Best Kept Secret' she later went solo.
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George Smith Houston was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Alabama from 1874 until 1878.
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Samuel Houston was an American politician. He was born in 1793 and died in 1863. Enlisted in the US army in 1813, he was promoted to lieutenant for bravery in the Creek War of 1813 to 1814. He represented Tennessee in the US Congress as a Democrat from 1823 to 1827, and was Governor of Tennessee from 1827 to 1829. He was a member of the Texas Constitutional Convention in 1833. As commander-in-chief of the Texan army he secured the independence of Texas. He was president of Texas from 1836 to 1838 and from 1841 to 1844, secured the annexation of Texas to the United States and represented it in Congress from 1845 to 1859. He was again chosen Governor of Texas in 1859 and served until he refused to espouse the Confederate cause in 1861.
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Sam Houston was an American soldier and politician. He was born in 1793 near Lexington, Virginia and died in 1863. He was a Democratic-Republican governor of Tennessee from 1827 until 1829 and a life-long supporter of the cause of the Cherokee Indians with whom he lived when young.
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was a Mexican politician. He was born in 1795 and died in 1876. He entered the Spanish army in Mexico, sided finally with the patriots, opposed Iturbide, and became a politico-military leader of national prominence. He was President from 1832 to 1835. The next year he marched against the Texan revolutionists, stormed the Alamo, and was defeated by Houston at San Jacinto and captured. He was head of the executive in 1839, and again President from 1841 to 1844; overthrown, he was once more President in 1846, and in 1847 was beaten by Taylor at Buena Vista. After Scott's victories and conquest of the capital Santa Anna resigned, but reappeared as President and dictator in 1853 holding office until 1855. He frequently attempted to regain power, and was a marshal under the empire, but died in obscurity.
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Alfonso Bedoya was a Mexican actor. He was born in 1904 at Vicam and died in 1957. He was a character actor who achieved his greatest success in American. films. He was born in a tiny village in Mexico and had a nomadic upbringing, living in numerous places throughout the country including, for a time, Mexico City. He received a private education in Houston, Texas as a teenager, but dropped out and roamed about doing an assortment of jobs. His family, however, brought him back to Mexico City, where he subsequently found work in the struggling Mexican film industry. He appeared in many Mexican films before the director John Huston offered him the role of Gold Hat in the 1948 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'. Bedoya stole the scenes in which he appeared as the smiling cutthroat and delivered the famous line about not needing any 'stinking badges'. He made a number of popular films in the USA in the next nine years, but a drinking problem destroyed his health.
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Andrew Baley is an American actor. He was born in 1978 at Houston, Texas.
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Basil Hoffman is an American actor. He was born in 1941 at Houston, Texas.
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Bubba Smith (real name Charles Aaron Smith) is an American actor and former professional football player. He was born in 1945 at Beaumont, Texas. An American Football player, he played for the Baltimore Colts from 1967 to 1971, the Oakland Raiders from 1973 to 1974 and for the Houston Oilers from 1975 to 1976, but is best known to film goers as 'Hightower' in the Police Academy series of films.
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Dennis Quaid is an American actor, film director and producer. He was born in 1954 at Houston, Texas.
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