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    HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM

    Dec 21, 2021 4 minutes
    BY KENT FRATES

    Temple Houston, youngest child of U.S. senator and Texas president and governor Sam Houston, was admitted to the state bar at age 19 in 1880 and was known for his courtroom antics and theatrical oratory. He later gained note as a district attorney and state senator. Houston was also handy with a gun and never went anywhere without a Colt .45 revolver he’d named “Old Betsy.” In 1894, in the wake of the Cherokee Strip land run, he moved his family to Woodward, Oklahoma Territory, where his fiery disposition got him into trouble.

    Temple Lea Houston was born at the governor’s mansion in Austin on Aug. 12, 1860. Orphaned by age 7, he was raised

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