Judge Edwin Waller

Waller came to Texas from Missouri in 1831. As owner of the cotton vessel Sabine he refused to pay customs duties and was briefly arrested, and at the battle of Velasco in June 1832 he was wounded in the head. He was alcalde of Brazoria in 1833. In December 1839 he was appointed postmaster general and resigned the day after his confirmation. At the 1861 Secession Convention, as the only signer of the 1836 declaration present, he was allowed to sign the ordinance right after the president. In 1873 he became the first president of the Texas Veterans Association.

What the plaque says

Judge Edwin Waller --- front side --- Born in Virginia, November 4, 1800 * Died in Waller County, Texas, January 3, 1881 His Wife Juliet M. De Shields Waller Born in 1801 * Died May 13, 1867 Erected by the State of Texas 1936 --- back side --- Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence * Laid out the City of Austin and was its first Mayor * * Waller County was named in his honor

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Cemetery — steps away
  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 — 0.3 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.
• George Washington Carver Museum — 0.4 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.
• Texas State Capitol — 1.0 mi
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.

More markers nearby

• William C. Crane — steps away
• William E. Collard — steps away
• Dr. George Moffit Patrick — steps away
• Major William Cooke — steps away