With Election Day just seven weeks away, the Texas branch of the American Party, better known as the “Know Nothings,” met on Jun. 11, 1855 to select a slate of candidates for statewide office. In only three years, the grass-roots movement had evolved from a fraternal group in the Northeast called the Order of United Americans into a major political force. Combining secret passwo...
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