Nine years later,in eighteen forty-five, the United States Congress passed a resolution inviting the Republic of Texas to join the Union as a state.

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Named after the second president of the Texas Republic.

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Rather, Texas gained independence from Mexico in 1836 and after nine years as an independent nation, we Texans prefer to say that the Republic of Texas and the United States of America merged.

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Texas started out as a republic and was independent for nine years.

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