Barnard Bee

Barnard Elliott Bee, Sr., hailed from South Carolina, where he was born in 1787. He served as an attorney in Charleston for many years, and on the staff of Governor James Hamilton. Bee moved to Texas following the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836, then served as Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury of the Texas Republic. In late 1836, President Sam Houston tapped him to accompany Santa Anna, Almonte, George Washington Hockley, and William H. Patton to Washington.

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