Resolved . . . , That Congress doth consent that the territory properly included within, and rightfully belonging to the Republic of Texas, may be erected into a new State, to be called the State ...

Space was transforming the region’s identity, oil was booming, the city’s population was nearing 1 million residents and Houston’s physical boundaries were expanding to accommodate all the growing it ...

Navarro serves in the Texas Republic's House of Representatives ... Polk'sproposal for annexation. Navarro helps to write the first state constitution, the Constitution of 1845.