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Margaret Lea Houston (April 11, 1819 – December 3, 1867) was First Lady of the Republic of Texas during her husband Sam Houston's second term as President of the Republic of Texas. They met following the first of his two non-consecutive terms as the Republic's president, and married when he was a representative in the Congress of the Republic of Texas. She was his third wife, remaining with him until his death.

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  • مارغريت ليا هيوستن (بالإنجليزية: Margaret Lea Houston)‏ (11 أبريل 1819 – 3 ديسمبر 1867) السيدة الأولى لجمهورية تكساس أثناء الفترة الثانية لحكم زوجها سام هيوستن. (ar)
  • Margaret Lea Houston (April 11, 1819 – December 3, 1867) was First Lady of the Republic of Texas during her husband Sam Houston's second term as President of the Republic of Texas. They met following the first of his two non-consecutive terms as the Republic's president, and married when he was a representative in the Congress of the Republic of Texas. She was his third wife, remaining with him until his death. She came from a close-knit family in Alabama, many of whom also moved to Texas when she married the man who was an accomplished politician in both Tennessee and Texas, and who had won the Battle of San Jacinto during the Texas Revolution. The couple had eight children, and she gave birth to most of them while he was away attending to politics. Her mother Nancy Lea was a constant in their lives, helping with the children, managing the household help, and always providing either financial assistance or temporary housing. With the help of her extended family in Texas, Margaret convinced her husband to give up both alcohol and profane language. He believed his wife to be an exemplary woman of faith and, under her influence, converted to the Baptist denomination, after he had many years earlier been baptized a Catholic in Nacogdoches, Texas. Following the Annexation of Texas to the United States, Sam Houston shuttled back and forth to Washington, D.C. as the state's U.S. senator for 13 years, while Margaret remained in Texas raising their children. When he was elected the state's governor, Margaret became First Lady of the state of Texas and was pregnant with their last child. Her brief tenure came on the cusp of the Civil War, at a time when the state was torn apart over the debate of whether or not to secede from the United States, while her husband worked in vain to defeat the Texas Ordinance of Secession. There was an attempt on his life, and angry mobs gathered in the streets near the governor's mansion. With no government protection provided, she lived in fear for her family's safety. Her husband was removed from office by the Texas Secession Convention for refusing to swear loyalty to the Confederacy. Margaret became a wartime mother, whose eldest son joined the Confederate Army and was taken prisoner at the Battle of Shiloh. Her husband died before the end of the war. In her few remaining years, she became the keeper of the Sam Houston legacy and opened his records to a trusted biographer. When she died of yellow fever four and a half years later, Margaret could not be buried with her husband in a public cemetery in Huntsville for fear of contamination, and was instead interred next to her mother on private property. (en)
  • 玛格丽特·利亚·休斯顿（英語：Margaret Lea Houston，1819年4月11日－1867年12月3日）1841至1844年任德克萨斯共和国第一夫人，丈夫山姆·休士頓此时第二次出任德克薩斯共和國總統。两人在山姆首次总统任期结束后相识，结婚时他刚当选。玛格丽特是山姆的第三位夫人，两人相伴至男方逝世。 玛格丽特生于亚拉巴马州，家人间关系密切，山姆与她成婚时已在得克萨斯革命赢得圣哈辛托战役，在田纳西和德克萨斯都是政坛名流，许多亲人跟随新娘一起迁居德克萨斯。休斯顿夫妇共有八个孩子，大部分是在男方外出从政时诞生。母亲是玛格丽特婚后生活的常客，帮他们带孩子、做家务，长期向两人提供经济支持和临时住房。凭借德克萨斯众多亲人助力，玛格丽特说服丈夫改掉酗酒、骂脏话的坏毛病。她是丈夫眼中忠诚虔诚的模范女子，山姆多年前在德克萨斯纳科多奇斯受洗为天主教徒，在她影响下皈依浸信会。 后，山姆持续往返华盛顿哥伦比亚特区出任联邦参议员，玛格丽特留在德克萨斯抚养子女。山姆当选州长，玛格丽特成为德克萨斯州第一夫人并怀上最后一个孩子。南北战争不久爆发，德克萨斯州在是否脱离联邦的争论中四分五裂，山姆徒劳地想要阻止。有人企图刺杀州长，愤怒的暴徒在州长官邸附近街道云集。一家人没有政府保护，玛格丽特对全家安危忧心忡忡，惶恐度日。 德克萨斯脱离联邦议会把拒绝宣誓效忠邦联的山姆赶下台，玛格丽特的长子加入联盟军后在夏羅之役被俘，丈夫没能看到内战结束的曙光。她此后几年保管亡夫的遗产，向信赖的传记作家提供文献。四年半后玛格丽特死于黄热病，为防传染遗体未能陪伴山姆下葬亨茨维尔公墓，连葬礼都没办，只能在私人墓地长眠，与去世仅三年的母亲相伴。 (zh)
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  • Margaret Moffette Lea (en)
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  • Gen'l Houston seems cheerful and hopeful through the day, but in the still watches of the night I see him agonizing in prayers for our distracted country. God's people are offering up the same prayer throughout the whole land. Will He not hear those prayers? (en)
  • She, by her great good sense and excellent management, had gained complete control over the general, and it is to her we owe as great a debt of gratitude ... for it was owing to her wonderful influence over him that Texas received the benefaction of his great mind. After he married her he quit all of his old habits and dissipation and became a new man. (en)
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  • --Dr. John W. Lockhart, author and Houston family friend (en)
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  • مارغريت ليا هيوستن (بالإنجليزية: Margaret Lea Houston)‏ (11 أبريل 1819 – 3 ديسمبر 1867) السيدة الأولى لجمهورية تكساس أثناء الفترة الثانية لحكم زوجها سام هيوستن. (ar)
  • Margaret Lea Houston (April 11, 1819 – December 3, 1867) was First Lady of the Republic of Texas during her husband Sam Houston's second term as President of the Republic of Texas. They met following the first of his two non-consecutive terms as the Republic's president, and married when he was a representative in the Congress of the Republic of Texas. She was his third wife, remaining with him until his death. (en)
  • 玛格丽特·利亚·休斯顿（英語：Margaret Lea Houston，1819年4月11日－1867年12月3日）1841至1844年任德克萨斯共和国第一夫人，丈夫山姆·休士頓此时第二次出任德克薩斯共和國總統。两人在山姆首次总统任期结束后相识，结婚时他刚当选。玛格丽特是山姆的第三位夫人，两人相伴至男方逝世。 玛格丽特生于亚拉巴马州，家人间关系密切，山姆与她成婚时已在得克萨斯革命赢得圣哈辛托战役，在田纳西和德克萨斯都是政坛名流，许多亲人跟随新娘一起迁居德克萨斯。休斯顿夫妇共有八个孩子，大部分是在男方外出从政时诞生。母亲是玛格丽特婚后生活的常客，帮他们带孩子、做家务，长期向两人提供经济支持和临时住房。凭借德克萨斯众多亲人助力，玛格丽特说服丈夫改掉酗酒、骂脏话的坏毛病。她是丈夫眼中忠诚虔诚的模范女子，山姆多年前在德克萨斯纳科多奇斯受洗为天主教徒，在她影响下皈依浸信会。 后，山姆持续往返华盛顿哥伦比亚特区出任联邦参议员，玛格丽特留在德克萨斯抚养子女。山姆当选州长，玛格丽特成为德克萨斯州第一夫人并怀上最后一个孩子。南北战争不久爆发，德克萨斯州在是否脱离联邦的争论中四分五裂，山姆徒劳地想要阻止。有人企图刺杀州长，愤怒的暴徒在州长官邸附近街道云集。一家人没有政府保护，玛格丽特对全家安危忧心忡忡，惶恐度日。 (zh)
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  • مارغريت ليا هيوستن (ar)
  • Margaret Lea Houston (en)
  • 玛格丽特·利亚·休斯顿 (zh)
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