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Richard Coke

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Disregarding the court ruling, the Democrats secured the keys to the second floor of the Capitol and took possession. Davis was reported to have state troops stationed on the lower floor. The Travis Rifles (a Texas military unit created to fight Indians), summoned to protect Davis, were converted
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Once the new Constitution had been negotiated, Coke resigned his office in December 1876, following his election by the legislature to the United States Senate. By the time of his resignation, Texas Democrats had united with white supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan to maintain political
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Coke's rise to power marked the return of locally elected government in Texas and the establishment of a rigidly white supremacist Texas Democratic party that would maintain a strong hold on Texas government for over 100 years. Historians in the state praised Davis for this, and consolidated a
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domination. He was a constructive statesman; he served his people with true fidelity and left Texas to rich heritage of a fruitful and useful like. His name is engraved on the scroll of immortals, and his footprints are in the sands of
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Coke's administration was marked by vigorous action to balance the budget and by a revised state constitution adopted in 1876. He was also instrumental in creating the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, which became
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into a sheriff's posse and protected Coke. On January 15, 1874, Coke was inaugurated as governor. On January 16, Davis arranged for a truce, but he made one final appeal for federal intervention. A telegram from President
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as a private. In 1862, he raised a company that became part of the 15th Texas Infantry and served as its captain for the rest of the war. He was wounded in an action known as Bayou Bourbeau on November 3, 1863, near
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because the polls were open for only one day, rather than the four days mentioned in the state constitution. The court is known as the "Semicolon Court" because the meaning of a particular
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Coke retired to his home in Waco and his nearby farm. He became ill with "progressive paralysis" in early 1897. After a few weeks of illness, he died at his home in Waco and was buried in
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said that he did not feel warranted in sending federal troops to keep Davis in office. Davis resigned his office on January 19. Coke's inauguration restored Democratic control in Texas.
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In 1850, Coke moved to Texas and opened a law practice in Waco. In 1852, he married Mary Horne of Waco. The couple had four children, but all of them died before age 30.
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Richard Coke leveraged resentment at Union occupation to construct a Democratic electoral coalition that ruled Texas for more than 100 years. Through
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version of Texas history that downplayed or omitted the liberal government that had preceded him. In 1916 the state archivist wrote:
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of Black voters and their white allies, Coke's coalition re-established conservative white control of Texas in the 1870s.
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In 1865, Coke was appointed a Texas district court judge, and in 1866, he was elected as an associate justice to the
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in the constitution was important in the case. As recounted by the Texas State Historical Association, in response,
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from 1874 to 1876 and was a US Senator from 1877 to 1895. His governorship is notable for reestablishing local
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Coke was a delegate to the Secession Convention at Austin in 1861. The convention's chief concern was keeping
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legal. Coke owned slaves himself. He voted that Texas should leave the United States to join the
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removed Coke and four other judges as ‘an impediment to reconstruction’, in pursuit of unionist
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and made their names famous, synonymous in the public eye with resistance to Union occupation.
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African-American Pioneers of Texas: From the Old West to the New Frontiers (Teacher's Manual)
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A pictorial history of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers, to A.D. 1879
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The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836–1916
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A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles: A History of Politics and Race in Texas
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The 1876 constitution created under Coke's administration is the current
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until March 3, 1895. Coke was not a candidate for reelection in 1894.
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Having been removed by Sheridan, Coke ran for governor as a
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control in Texas politics. His uncle was US Representative
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Governor Coke had faith in his people. He believed in the
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Habeas writs that helped define Reconstruction-era Texas
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to lead a commission tasked with removing the remaining
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due to his perceived triumphs over Reconstruction era
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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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After the war, he returned home to Waco. 1835: 1821: 1813: 1594: 1580: 1572: 1026: 1012: 1004: 872: 38: 27: 2252:Burials at Oakwood Cemetery (Waco, Texas) 2247:People of Texas in the American Civil War 869:, Grits for Breakfast, December 15, 2012. 458:Coke was re-elected to federal office in 270:. Richard Coke was revered by many Texas 313:In 1859, Coke was appointed by governor 230: 2257:United States senators who owned slaves 2197:Politicians from Williamsburg, Virginia 553: 298:was his brother. He graduated from the 541:The Biographical Encyclopedia of Texas 69:March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1895 7: 2237:William & Mary Law School alumni 387:of Black Texans was maintained with 294:, to John and Eliza (Hankins) Coke. 2222:Justices of the Texas Supreme Court 2212:Democratic Party governors of Texas 16:Governor of Texas from 1874 to 1876 2202:American people of English descent 379:attacks, intimidation, and public 14: 2232:19th-century American politicians 1603:United States senators from Texas 967:U.S. senator (Class 2) from Texas 496:supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon race 290:Richard Coke was born in 1829 in 2242:Confederate States Army officers 2039: 1715: 1307: 1300: 321:natives from West Texas and the 778:"TSHA | Coke-Davis Controversy" 1: 701:Carrigan, William D. 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Richard Coke (disambiguation)

United States Senator
Texas
Morgan C. Hamilton
Horace Chilton
Governor of Texas
Lieutenant
Edmund J. Davis
Richard B. Hubbard
Williamsburg, Virginia
Waco, Texas
Democratic
Alma mater
College of William and Mary
LLB

Waco, Texas
15th governor
Texas
white supremacist
disfranchisement
African American
Reconstruction
Southern Democrats
Federal
Richard Coke Jr.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Octavius Coke
College of William and Mary

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