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Father, not son, deserves place in Texas history
Erasmos Seguin took his seat in the Mexican constitutional assembly on Dec. 11, 1823 as the one deputy from the province of Texas.
Stephen F. Austin could not have made a better friend in 1821 than the patriarch of the Seguin clan. Sent by the governor to welcome Moses Austin back to Texas, Erasmos met instead the young foreigner who hoped to pick up where his dead dad had left off.
The first official to acknowledge Stephen’s legal claim to the land granted Moses, Erasmos Seguin went the ext...