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Stephen F. Austin
Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836) was an American empresario known as the Father of Texas. Taking over his father's grant from newly independent Mexico, he settled the first legal Anglo-American colonists in Texas from 1821 and managed a colony of thousands of families. Imprisoned in Mexico in 1834–1835, he joined the Texas Revolution, lost the presidential election of 1836 to Sam Houston and died as the republic's secretary of state.
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