Ep 148: Governor Richard Coke, Texan: An interview with Rosser Coke Newton
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Governor Richard Coke was sworn in at the point of several guns. His supporters protected his impromptu ceremony on the second floor of the Capitol from his defeated opponent’s supporters on the first floor. But once in office, he changed Texas for the better. Balanced budgets and Texas A&M, among other things. Learn more about this influential Texan in this interview with his descendant, Rosser Coke Newton, author of the new book “Richard Coke: Texan.”
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas history podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | This is your host, Ken Wise. |
| 0:13.2 | Thanks very much for tuning in today for a little bit of Texas history. |
| 0:17.2 | Been a lot of activity over here at lies about Texas World Headquarters. |
| 0:21.7 | First, I want to say thank you to everybody who provided some feedback from the last episode |
| 0:26.6 | when I was sort of rolling out the idea of doing some golf history focused podcasts and Texas |
| 0:34.1 | golf history stuff. |
| 0:35.9 | The responses were overwhelmingly positive, even from people |
| 0:40.2 | who really don't play golf. |
| 0:42.2 | So I think what's going to probably happen is I will probably start a separate podcast for |
| 0:51.2 | Texas golf history, but if the history is general enough and interesting enough, |
| 0:57.4 | I'll probably run it both places. |
| 0:59.0 | So there will be some episodes on this main, |
| 1:01.6 | wise about Texas that are golf-related. |
| 1:03.4 | But some of the more narrow golf episodes |
| 1:07.9 | with maybe a more narrow interest |
| 1:09.7 | or maybe very, very golf specific, I'll keep |
| 1:13.2 | to a separate golf history feed, and we'll just see how that works. |
| 1:18.2 | But there's a lot of interesting stuff to talk about in that regard. |
| 1:22.6 | So I will be asking you to share that with your golfing friends. |
| 1:25.4 | And hopefully this summer we'll get that up and running. In the meantime, there's one other thing that I need to mention at this point, |
| 1:32.9 | because this has come up a couple of times and it always does every election year that I'm |
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