Ep. 21: Texans You Should Know: Temple Lea Houston
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Meet Temple Lea Houston, youngest son of Texas hero Sam Houston and one of Texas’s first great trial lawyers. He was known for his quick mind, a silver tongue, fancy dress and a fast gun. All of those were helpful in the early courtrooms of Texas. He turned down the chance for high political office in exchange for the excitement of frontier justice. He also delivered one of the greatest closing arguments in history. Come to court in frontier Texas and get Wise About Texas.
Temple Lea Houston
The Brigham monument at San Jacinto
Dedication of the new state capitol building 1888
Happy hour in Tascosa, Texas back in the old days
The old stone courthouse in Mobeetie
Temple Houston about 1890
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How do you? Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm your host Ken Wise and I hope you're enjoying another hot Texas summer. |
| 0:23.0 | One of our favorite sports in Texas is complaining about the heat and humidity, |
| 0:27.0 | but as an astute friend of mine noted after he lived in Washington DC during the winter, at least you don't have to shovel |
| 0:34.5 | humidity. |
| 0:35.5 | Well, it's Monday, August 1st, 2016, and as of last Friday, this show had been downloaded |
| 0:41.9 | over 25,000 times. |
| 0:44.0 | Folks, I'm really thankful that so many people are interested in Texas history, |
| 0:48.0 | but I've got to tell you, I never expected the kind of response this show is getting. I'm hearing from listeners all over the country |
| 0:54.9 | who are really excited about Texas history and are passing this show along to their friends. |
| 0:59.4 | I hope you'll send this show to your friends and let's keep this momentum going. |
| 1:04.0 | Let's preserve and promote Texas history. |
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| 1:22.3 | own episode of Wies About Texas. |
| 1:25.0 | Well today I'm going to continue the series, Texans You Should Know. |
| 1:29.0 | By now the regular listeners of this show, know I'm a justice on the 14th Court of Appeals and before |
| 1:34.4 | that I was a trial judge for about 10 years and a trial lawyer. I can tell you |
| 1:39.2 | without reservation that Texas has the best trial lawyers anywhere, I mean anywhere, and you're darn right |
| 1:46.3 | I'm biased about that. I've taught trial advocacy in other parts of the country |
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