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The republic’s second president was no Houston man. “Texas to the Pacific!” was the rallying cry in 1838 when nationalist Mirabeau Lamar succeeded Sam Houston as president of the young republic. Houston men wanted to annex Texas to the Union; Lamar men wanted Texas to seek her own destiny. Lamar himself was an oddity. A …
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