CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: FRANCIS R. LUBBOCK - Travis County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 

FRANCIS R. LUBBOCK	

Francis R. Lubbock, of Austin, was born in Beaufort, S.C., 
October 16, 1816.  He was educated in the Charleston Academy.  
He came to Texas in 1836 and was chosen one of the assistant 
clerks in the congress of the Texan Republic. Later he was 
appointed by President Sam Houston to be comptroller of the 
treasury of the young republic.  He served in the Bonnell 
campaign against the Indians, being the adjutant of the command; 
and later in the Somerville campaign against the invading Mexicans.  
n 1841, Sam Houston having been reelected president, he again 
appointed Mr. Lubbock comptroller of the treasury.  He was 
lieutenant governor of the state in 1858 59, delegate to the 
Charleston convention of the Democratic party in 1860, and after 
it adjourned to Richmond, Va., was its chairman.  In August, 
1861, he was elected governor of Texas.  Ninety thousand men were 
put into the Confederate army during his term of office.  He 
declined a second term and entered the army as assistant adjutant 
general, serving on the staffs of several noted generals.  In 1864 
President Jefferson Davis appointed him colonel of cavalry and put 
him on his staff; he was with his chief at the time the latter was 
captured, and was incarcerated in Fort Delaware nearly a year.  
The next twelve years he was in business in Galveston and traveled 
in Europe for his firm.  In 1878 he was elected state treasurer 
and served by re election for twelve years, voluntarily retiring 
in 1891.  At the time of his death in 1905 he was the oldest Mason 
in Texas, having joined that order in 1837.  Governor Lubbock is 
buried in the State cemetery in Austin.