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    Goree is a city in Knox County, Texas, United States. The population was 158 at the 2020 census, down from 203 at the 2010 census. Goree is located at...
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  • Brian Goree (born March 18, 1964) is a Justice on the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals. Born in 1964 in Killeen, Texas, and raised in Tulsa, he graduated...
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    Île de Gorée (French pronunciation: [ildəɡoʁe]; "Gorée Island"; Wolof: Beer Dun)[citation needed] is one of the 19 communes d'arrondissement (i.e. districts)...
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    The Thomas Goree Unit (GR) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice men's prison, located in Huntsville, Texas, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of downtown Huntsville...
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    Longstreet's most trusted aides. The Goree Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, was named in honor of TJ Goree in 1935. The unit houses the state's...
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  • Tex Thornton (category People from Knox County, Texas)
    Litton Industries. Charles Bates Thornton was born on July 22, 1913, in Goree, Texas. He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II,...
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  • Gorée is an island in Senegal, Africa. Goree may also refer to: Goree, Texas, a city in Knox County in the US State of Texas Goeree-Overflakkee (historically...
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    Texas is a state located in the Southern United States. As of the 2020 census, 29,145,505 (95.55%) of the 30,503,301 residents of Texas lived in a municipality...
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  • into the U.S. Army, and was a veteran of the Korean War. Goree Carter was born in Houston, Texas. He was born in the Fifth Ward, and lived at 1310 Bayou...
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  • Eastham Unit Ellis Unit W.J. Estelle Unit Ferguson Unit Thomas Goree Unit Huntsville Unit – Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville Gib Lewis Unit Allan B. Polunsky...
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  • first-ever concert at the Texas Prison Rodeo in 1956. Women participated in the rodeo until 1981, when they were moved from the Goree Unit in Huntsville to...
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    Munday High School (category Schools in Knox County, Texas)
    located in southeastern Knox County. In 2003, neighboring Goree High School in Goree, Texas was consolidated with Munday and all high school grades began...
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  • knew I just had to go out and get an electric guitar.” He also influenced Goree Carter, whose "Rock Awhile" (1949) featured an over-driven electric guitar...
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    The Goree All Girl String Band, popularly known as The Goree Girls, was a band of eight female prisoners of the Goree Unit which performed in the 1940s...
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    Machine". Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on May 10, 2010. "Goree Unit Archived July 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine". Texas Department...
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    including Goree Unit, the Jester units, Polunsky Unit, the Ramsey units, and Wynne Unit, are located in those counties. The state of Texas began building...
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    prisons and jails of all of the counties in Texas. Several TDCJ prisons for men, including the Byrd Unit, the Goree Unit, the Huntsville Unit, and the Wynne...
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    Goree. The camp was profiled in a story that aired on July 21, 2010, on National Public Radio's Morning Edition program. Benjamin (county seat) Goree...
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  • programming in Texas. Edwin Sue Goree was born in Thorp Springs, Texas, on May 14, 1884, to Robert Daniel and Frances Rebecca (née Campbell) Goree. She attended...
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    (1891–1977), Texas Ranger captain T. J. Goree (1835–1905), superintendent of penitentiaries in Texas, namesake of the Goree Unit of the Texas Department...
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  • Goree Independent School District was a public school district based in Goree, Texas (USA). The district consisted of a single campus - Goree School -...
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    imprisonment in 1951. Mary Anderson, sentenced to death in 1978, was held at Goree Unit. Her death sentence was reversed in 1982, and the sentence was changed...
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    under Texas state jurisdiction, was sentenced to death in 1949. In 1951 her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Subsequently the Goree Unit and...
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    Confederate armies. Felix Huston Robertson was the only native Texan Confederate general. Capt. T. J. Goree was one of Lt. General James Longstreet's most trusted...
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  • Candy Barr (category Deaths from pneumonia in Texas)
    conviction. On December 4, 1959, Barr entered the Goree State Farm for women near Huntsville, Texas, to serve her prison term. During her imprisonment...
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    Skip Hollandsworth (category Texas Christian University alumni)
    Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder (for distribution outside the United States, the DVD was titled Swearing Allegiance); The Goree Girls, a proposed...
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    entrepreneur, founder of Litton Industries; as Charles Bates Thornton, in Goree, Texas, United States (d. 1981)[citation needed] Died: Eduardo López Rivas,...
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    well as Melvin Jackson, Alger "Texas" Alexander, Little Hat Jones, Buster Pickens, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, and Goree Carter. Freddie King, born in Gilmer...
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    Collegiate Independent School District Woodson Independent School District Goree Independent School District formerly served sections of the county. On July...
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    District Rule Independent School District Stamford Independent School District Goree Independent School District formerly served sections of the county. On July...
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