When did Texas become a state
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It was named the state fish in 1989. It is native only to Texas.
Texas was named after a Caddo Native American word meaning friends. The Spanish people that were settling Texas heard the word and liked it.
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Esperanza Andrade is the current Secretary of State of Texas. She was named to that position by Governor Rick Perry in July of 2008 after the previous Secretary of State of Texas resigned.
A Texas refers to the officers' room of a steamboat. It was the largest of the quarters and therefore named for what was then the largest state in the union.
== == The Guadalupe bass (Micropterus treculi) within the sunfish family, was named the official state fish of Texas by the 71st Legislature on May 22, 1989 == ==
The northern mockingbird was named the state bird in 1927.
A Texas refers to the officers' room of a steamboat. It was the largest of the quarters and therefore named for what was then the largest state in the union.
There is a St. Joseph, Missouri and a St. Jo, Texas, but the Texas city was not named after the saint.
Originally steamboat cabins and decks were named after states. Since Texas was the largest state, the largest cabin or deck was named the Texas. This nautical use of Texas may be why the Texas deck on oil rigs is named this way. see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_(steamboat)