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    The following is a list of mayors of San Antonio, Texas. San Antonio operates under a council–manager form of government. While the mayor presides over...
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    Ron Nirenberg (category Mayors of San Antonio)
    politician who is the mayor of San Antonio, Texas. Prior to his election, Nirenberg served as a member of the San Antonio City Council for District 8 for...
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    Samuel Maverick (category Politicians from San Antonio)
    political unrest in Texas, as the colonists did not trust Mexican president Antonio López de Santa Anna to abide by the promises that had been made in the Mexican...
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    Juan Seguín (category Mayors of San Antonio)
    governor over Texas by his brother-in-law Antonio López de Santa Anna, and established his headquarters in San Antonio on October 9, 1835. Upwards of 160 rancheros...
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    Ivy Taylor (category African-American history in San Antonio)
    Ivy Ruth Taylor (born June 17, 1970) is the former Mayor of San Antonio, Texas from 2014 through 2017, and the former president of Rust College in Holly...
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    squares. Construction continued after Juan de Villanueva's death by Antonio López Aguado and Custodio Moreno, and was finished in 1854. Today, the Plaza Mayor...
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    Howard W. Peak (category Mayors of San Antonio)
    November 30, 2024) was an American politician who served as the mayor of San Antonio, Texas, from 1997 to 2001. He was succeeded in office by Ed Garza. Prior...
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    Henry Cisneros (category Mayors of San Antonio)
    an American politician and businessman. He served as the mayor of San Antonio, Texas, from 1981 to 1989, the second Latino mayor of a major American...
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    Maury Maverick (category Military personnel from San Antonio)
    obscure and euphemistic bureaucratic language. Maverick was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Albert and Jane Lewis (Maury) Maverick. His paternal...
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    Phil Hardberger (category Mayors of San Antonio)
    1934) is an American politician and lawyer who served as mayor of San Antonio, taking office in June, 2005. A Democrat, he was elected on a non-partisan...
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    Nelson Wolff (category Politicians from San Antonio)
    1940) is a retired American judge and Democratic politician from San Antonio, Texas. He represented Bexar County in the Texas House of Representatives...
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    Andrés Mariano López-Rayón Piña (1742–1805) and María Josefa Rafaela López-Aguado y López-Bolaños (1754–1822). He went to the Colegio de San Nicolás in Valladolid...
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    Julian Castro (category Jefferson High School (San Antonio, Texas) alumni)
    born September 16, 1974) is an American lawyer and politician from San Antonio, Texas. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the youngest member of...
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  • Erasmo Seguín (category People from San Antonio)
    San Antonio de Bexar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas, USA) in the 19th century. From 1807 until 1835, Seguín served as head postmaster of San Antonio, Texas...
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    Amada Elsa López Rodríguez (born 17 January 1943) is a Spanish writer specializing in poetry. Amada Elsa López Rodríguez was born and lived in Fernando...
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    Lila Cockrell (category Mayors of San Antonio)
    Antonio, Texas. During World War II, she served in the WAVES branch of the United States Navy. She served as President of the Dallas and San Antonio chapters...
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    José Antonio Menchaca (1797-01 November 1879) was an American soldier and politician who fought in the Texas Revolution and was recognized by a Joint...
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    Mayor of Madrid, among other important works. Villanuevas´ pupils Antonio López Aguado and Isidro González Velázquez expanded the Neoclassical style in...
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    Edward D. Garza (category Jefferson High School (San Antonio, Texas) alumni)
    he served as mayor of San Antonio, Texas. Elected at the age of 32, he is the youngest person to become mayor of San Antonio and only the second person...
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  • John William Smith (politician) (category Mayors of San Antonio)
    American political figure, the first mayor of San Antonio under the Republic, and the first mayor of San Antonio under the state of Texas. He supported and served...
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    Penco, Giulia Grisi, Giorgio Ronconi, Italo Gardoni, Mario de Candia and Antonio Selva among many others. In 1863, Giuseppe Verdi visited the theatre for...
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  • Bill Thornton (category Mayors of San Antonio)
    William E. Thornton is an American politician who served as the mayor of San Antonio, Texas from 1995 to 1997. He succeeded Nelson Wolff and was himself followed...
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    Francois P. Giraud (category Mayors of San Antonio)
    1877, in San Antonio), also known as Francis P. Giraud, was an American politician. He was mayor of the Bexar County city of San Antonio in the U.S. state...
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  • coin in this state. Antonio de la Garza was elected mayor of San Antonio in 1813 and 1832. Antonio de la Garza was born in San Antonio de Béjar, Texas, on...
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  • was the alcade of San Antonio. General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna did not trust Ruiz, and when the Mexican army entered San Antonio to begin the siege of...
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  • Juan Martín de Veramendi (category People from San Antonio)
    on September 6, 1830). Veramendi was born on December 17, 1778, in San Antonio de Béxar, known as Béxar, which was then a part of Spanish Texas. He was...
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    Juan Antonio Bardem Muñoz (2 June 1922 – 30 October 2002) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter, born in Madrid. Bardem was best known for Muerte...
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  • Navarro (1748–1808) was a leading early Spanish settler and patriarch of San Antonio, Texas. The Navarro family played a prominent role in the Mexican and Texas...
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  • Juan Leal (category People from San Antonio)
    which later would become the city of San Antonio, Texas. A native of the Canary Islands, Leal went to San Antonio in 1731 leading a group of settlers from...
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  • Juan Curbelo (Texan settler) (category Mayors of San Antonio)
    served as the sixth and eighth mayor of San Antonio, Texas in 1737 and 1739. His family arrived in San Antonio from the Canary Islands in 1731 with other...
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