James Stephen Hogg, Smith County, TX

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Title: The Encyclopedia of Texas
Publisher: Texas Development Bureau, Dallas, Texas
Compiled and Edited by Ellis A. Davis and Edwin H. Grobe
Date: 1923

   JAMES STEPHEN HOGG-Nineteenth governor of Texas, 1891-1895, was
the first native Texas to fill the governor's office. He was born in
1851, at Rush, left an orphan at the age of twelve, was self-made,
became a publisher and editor of ability and in 1875 took up the
practice of law. The successive offices of justice of the peace, 
county attorney, district attorney, attorney-general, then governor, 
indicate his rise in state service. His constructive policies as 
governor met with sharp opposition and he was perhaps the most 
criticized executive of the state in certain circles in the term of 
his office. But he was a true statesman and when he died in 1906, his 
remains were taken to the senate chambers, where he lay in state and 
leaders from every section attended the funeral.