politician
Stephen F. Austin.
American empresario, founder of Texas, namesake of Austin, Texas (1793-1836)
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About Stephen F. Austin
Stephen Fuller Austin was an American-born empresario, i.e. a person granted the right to settle on land in exchange for recruiting and taking responsibility for settling the eastern areas of the Tejas region of Mexico in the early nineteenth century. Known as the "Father of Texas" and the founder of Anglo Texas, he led the second and, ultimately, the successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families and their slaves from the United States in 1825.
Everything about Stephen F. Austin →- Occupation
- politician, empresario
- Position held
- Secretary of State of Texas
- Citizenship
- United States, Mexico, Republic of Texas, New Spain
- Born
- November 3, 1793
- Died
- December 27, 1836