Gen. George W. Terrell

Terrell was admitted to the bar in Tennessee in 1827, and the next year Governor Sam Houston appointed him a district attorney; he was Houston's attorney general when Houston resigned the governorship. He sat in the Tennessee legislature from 1829 to 1836, then suffered financial reverses in Mississippi. In Texas, Lamar made him district attorney of San Augustine County in 1840, and he later served as a district judge. As Indian commissioner from 1842 to 1844 he negotiated the treaty at Bird's Fort on September 29, 1843. He was known as an opponent of annexation.

What the plaque says

Gen. George W. Terrell Born in Kentucky 1803. Came to Texas in 1840 from Mississippi. Associate justice, Supreme Court, 1840. Secretary of State, 1841. Attorney General, 1841-42. Charge d'Affiares of the the Republic of Texas to England, France, Spain 1844-45. Died in Austin, Texas, May 17, 1846. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• George Washington Carver Museum — 0.5 mi
  East Austin's museum of Black history and culture, grown from a segregated branch library moved across town in 1933, with a permanent exhibit on Juneteenth at its core.
• LBJ Presidential Library — 0.7 mi
  A ten-story travertine archive on the University of Texas campus holding 45 million pages from a presidency of civil rights laws, the War on Poverty and Vietnam.
• Texas State Cemetery — 0.7 mi
  A hill east of the Capitol that began with one general's grave in 1851 and now holds Stephen F. Austin, governors, Barbara Jordan and more than 2,000 Confederate veterans and widows.
• French Legation State Historic Site — 0.7 mi
  A raised pine house built in 1840 and 1841 for France's envoy to the Republic of Texas, who left Austin in a rage over a neighbor's pigs before it was finished.

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