STATEWIDE — Texas Independence Day celebrates the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 1836, marking Texas’ independence from Mexico.
In order to make you feel extra proud to be a Texan today, we've pulled together a quick history lesson:
Sixty delegates signed the Texas Declaration
Three of them were born in Mexico. Fifty-seven of the sixty moved to Texas from the United States. Ten of them had lived in Texas for more than six years, while one-quarter of them had been in the province for less than a year. This is significant, because it indicates that the majority of signatories had moved to Texas after the Law of April 6, 1830, banning immigration, had taken effect, meaning that the majority were legally citizens of the United States, occupying Texas illegally. Fifty-nine of these men were delegates to the Convention, and one was the Convention Secretary, Herbert S. Kimble.
