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2. List of people from San Antonio - Wikipedia

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   William P. Atkinson, Wisconsin State Assemblyman. Claude W. Black Jr., Baptist minister, civil rights leader, City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tempore. Augustus Belknap, Union Army officer, railway executive, and city alderman [1] Bill Blythe, member of the Texas House of representatives. Mario Cantu, Chicano activist.

3. Samuel Maverick - Wikipedia

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   Samuel Augustus Maverick (July 23, 1803 – September 2, 1870) was a Texas lawyer, politician, land baron and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. His name is the source of the term " maverick ," first cited in 1867, which means "independently minded." Various accounts of the origins of the term held that Maverick came to be ...

4. Bexar County, Texas - Wikipedia

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   20th, 21st, 23rd, 28th, 35th. Website. www .bexar .org. Bexar County ( / bɛər / BAIR or / ˈbeɪər / ⓘ BAY-ər; Spanish: Béxar [ˈbexaɾ]) [1] [2] is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in South Texas and its county seat is San Antonio. [3] As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,009,324, making it the state's fourth-most ...

5. San Antonio - Wikipedia

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   San Antonio (/ ˌ s æ n æ n ˈ t oʊ n i oʊ / SAN an-TOH-nee-oh; Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in 2020.

6. Emily D. West - Wikipedia

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   Emily D. West. The Emily Morgan Hotel, in downtown San Antonio, is named in honor of the Texas heroine. Emily D. West (c.1815–1891), also known as Emily Morgan, is a folk heroine whose legendary activities during the Texas Revolution have come to be identified with the song "The Yellow Rose of Texas".

7. Culture of San Antonio - Wikipedia

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   The San Antonio River Walk. The culture of San Antonio reflects the history and culture of one of the state's oldest and largest cities straddling the regional and cultural divide between South and Central Texas. Historically, San Antonio culture comes from a blend of Central Texas ( Hill Country) and South Texas ( Southwestern) culture.