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Bexar County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,714,773, and a 2013 estimate put the population at 1,817,610. It is the 17th-most populous county in the nation and the fourthmost populated in Texas. Its county seat is San Antonio, the second-most populous city in Texas and the seventhlargest city in the United States. Bexar County is included in the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bexar County has become a major bellwether in presidential elections. 1. History Bexar County was created on December 20, 1836, and encompassed almost the entire western portion of the Republic of Texas. This included the disputed areas of western New Mexico northward to Wyoming. After statehood, 128 counties were carved out of its area.
The county was named for San Antonio de Béxar, one of the 23 Mexican municipalities (administrative divisions) of Texas at the time of its independence. San Antonio de Béxar—originally Villa de San Fernando de Béxar—was the first civil government established by the Spanish in the province of Texas. Specifically, the municipality was created in 1731 when 55 Canary Islanders settled near the system of missions that had been established around the source of the San Antonio River. The new settlement was named after the Presidio San Antonio de Béjar, the Spanish military outpost that protected the missions. The presidio, located at the San Pedro Springs, was founded in 1718 and named for Viceroy Balthasar Manuel de Zúñiga y Guzmán Sotomayor y Sarmiento, second son of the Duke of Béjar (a town in Spain). The modern City of San Antonio in the U.S. State of Texas also derived its name from San Antonio de Béjar. BiblioTech, reported to be the first bookless public library, opened in
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Bexar County in 2013 2. Communities • Alamo Heights • Balcones Heights • Castle Hills • Cibolo • China Grove • Converse • Cross Mountain Lytle • Olmos Park • San Antonio • Sandy Oaks • Schertz • Scenic Oaks • Selma • Shavano Park • Somerset • St. Hedwig • Terrell Hills • Timberwood Park • Universal City • Von Ormy • Windcrest
Elmendorf • Fair Oaks Ranch • Grey Forest • Helotes • Hill Country Village • Hollywood Park • Kirby • Leon Springs • Leon Valley • Live Oak •
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San Antonio (/ˌsænænˈtoʊni.oʊ/ Spanish for “Saint Anthony”), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh most populous city in the United States of America and the second most populous city in the state of Texas, with a population of 1,409,019. It was the fastest growing of the top 10 largest cities in the United States from 2000 to 2010, and the second from 1990 to 2000. The city is located in the American Southwest, the south–central part of Texas, and the southwestern corner of an urban region known as the Texas Triangle. San Antonio serves as the seat of Bexar County. The city has characteristics of other western urban centers in which there are sparsely populated areas and a low density
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rate outside of the city continue to expand. Visitors Bureau. The limits. San Antonio is city is home to the fiveSan Antonio was named the center of the San time NBA champion San for Saint Anthony of Antonio–New Braunfels Antonio Spurs and hosts Padua, whose feast day Metropolitan Statistical the annual San Antonio is on June 13, by a 1691 Area. Commonly referred Stock Show & Rodeo, one Spanish expedition in to as Greater San Antonio, the area. It is notable for of the largest such events the metropolitan area in the country. Spanish colonial missions, has a population of over the Alamo, the River The US armed forces 2.27 million based on Walk, the Tower of the have numerous facilities the 2013 U.S. Census Americas, the Alamo here: Fort Sam Houston, estimate, making it the Bowl, and Marriage Lackland Air Force Base, 25th-largest metropolitan Island. Commercial Randolph Air Force area in the United States entertainment includes Base (which constitute and third-largest in the SeaWorld and Six Flags Joint Base San Antonio), state of Texas. Growth Fiesta Texas theme parks, and Lackland AFB/ along the Interstate 35 and and the city is visited Kelly Field Annex, with Interstate 10 corridors to by approximately 26 Camp Bullis and Camp the north, west and east million tourists per year, Stanley located outside make it likely that the according to the San the city. Kelly Air Force metropolitan area will Antonio Convention and Base operated out of San Antonio until 2001, when the airfield was transferred to Lackland AFB. The remaining portions of the base were developed as Port San Antonio, an industrial/business park. San Antonio is home to six Fortune 500 companies and the South Texas Medical Center, the only medical research and care provider in the South Texas region.
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The Alamo Mission in San Antonio (“the Alamo”), located Downtown, is Texas’ top tourist attraction. Because of the mission, San Antonio is often called the “Alamo City.” The River Walk, meanders through the Downtown area, is the city’s second most visited attraction. It was one of the first restorations of an urban river. Lined with numerous shops, bars, and restaurants, as well as the Arneson River Theater, this attraction is transformed into an impressive festival of lights during the Christmas and New Year holiday period, and is suffused with the local sounds of folklorico and flamenco music during the summer, particularly during celebrations such as the Fiesta Noche del Rio. Also based along the River Walk is the newly restored Aztec On The River, the only surviving exoticthemed movie palace in Texas. The Downtown Area also features Cathedral of San Fernando, The Majestic Theatre, HemisFair Park World Views Guides
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(home of the Tower of the Americas, and UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures), La Villita, El Mercado, the Spanish Governor’s Palace, and the historic Menger Hotel. On the northern side of the Alamo complex, beside the Emily Morgan Hotel, is the San Antonio Cavalry Museum, which features cavalry artifacts and exhibits and is frequented by local re-enactors. The Fairmount Hotel, built in 1906 and San Antonio’s second oldest hotel, is in the Guinness World Records as one of the heaviest buildings ever moved intact. It was placed in its new location, three blocks south of the Alamo, over four days in 1985, and cost $650,000 to move.
for children who have special needs. San Antonio is home to the first museum of modern art in Texas, the McNay Art Museum. Other art institutions and museums include ArtPace, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, Buckhorn Saloon & Museum, San Antonio Museum of Art, The Southwest School of Art, Texas Rangers Museum, Texas Transportation Museum, and Witte Museum. Visitors can also experience something of the cowboy culture year round, and they can see the 40-foot (12 m) tall cowboy boots at North Star Mall. Other places of interest include Brackenridge Park, the Japanese Tea Gardens, the missions of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, the San Antonio Zoo, and The Woodlawn Theatre.
SeaWorld, located 16 miles (26 km) west of Downtown in the city’s Westover Hills district, is the number 3 attraction. Also, there and is the very popular Six 1. Media entertainment Flags Fiesta Texas. Other popular theme parks in 1. Print San Antonion include Splashtown and Morgan’s San Antonio has one Wonderland, a theme park major newspaper, the San
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Antonio Express-News, which has served the area since 1865. The ExpressNews currently circulates as the largest newspaper service in South Texas. The Hearst Corporation, which owned a second newspaper, the San Antonio Light, purchased the Express-News from News Corp. in 1992 and shut down the Light after failing to find a buyer.
News brand, also produces Conexion, a weekly magazine written by an entirely Hispanic staff with a Hispanic spin on weekly events. The San Antonio Current is the free “alternative” paper published weekly with local political issues, art and music news, restaurant listings and reviews, and listings of events and nightlife around town. In Hearst, using the Express- addition, the San Antonio Frequency 2 4 5 9 12 26 29 35 41 60
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2. Politics Glenn A. Abbey, U.S. diplomat • Hope Andrade, Secretary of State of Texas, member of the Texas Transportation Commission • William P. Atkinson, Wisconsin State Assemblyman • Claude W. Black, Jr., Baptist minister, civil rights leader, City Councilman •
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and Mayor Pro Tempore • Bill Blythe, state representative from Harris County, born in San Antonio, c. 1935 • Robert Lee Bobbitt, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, state attorney general, and chairman of the Texas Highway Commission • Joaquín Castro, U.S. representative from Texas’s 35th congressional district since 2013; member of the
Texas House, brother of San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro • Henry E. Catto, Jr., ambassador to the United Kingdom • John Cornyn, United States Senator since 2002; attended Trinity University and St. Mary’s University Law School in San Antonio • Frank Corte, Jr., Republican state representative from San Antonio, 1993 to 2011 World Views Guides | 2014
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• Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States of America; stationed at Fort Sam Houston in 1916 • Alberto Gonzales, United States Attorney General under President George W. Bush • Henry B. Gonzalez, United States Congressman, honored by the City of San Antonio with Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center • Rita Jenrette, wife of United States Congressman John W. Jenrette, Jr., of South Carolina, posed for Playboy magazine in 1981, dated country singer Mickey Gilley • Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States, retired to San Antonio • Cyndi Taylor Krier, state senator and Bexar County administrative judge • Lyle Larson, member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 122 since 2011; member of the Bexar County Commissioners Court and the San Antonio World Views Guides
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City Council • Hall Lyons (19231998), Louisiana oilman and politician, lived in San Antonio in the early 1950s while engaged in business • Nathan Macias (born 1960), Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Comal County; businessman and retired Lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force • Joe Rollins (1918– 2008), Houston attorney, graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio in 1934 • Mario Marcel Salas (1949), City Councilman District 2, Judson Independent School District Vice-President. 2003, Professor Pol. Sci. • Sally SheltonColby, Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Grenada and Dominica as well as Minister to St Lucia, and Special Representative to Antigua, St. Christopher-NevisAnguilla, and St. Vincent from 1979 to 1981, under Jimmy Carter. • John Shields, state
representative from San Antonio • Bill Siebert, state representative from San Antonio • John Thomas Steen, Jr., San Antonio lawyer and 108th Secretary of State of Texas • G. J. Sutton, state representative, first black elected official in Texas • Lou Nelle Sutton, wife of G. J. Sutton who succeeded her husband in the Texas House • Percy Sutton, Manhattan borough president in New York City, civil rights attorney with such high-profile clients as Malcolm X, the owner of the Apollo Theater in Harlem and several radio stations • Lawson Swearingen, born in San Antonio in 1944 but reared in Ruston, Louisiana; member of the Louisiana State Senate and president of his alma mater, the University of Louisiana at Monroe • Jeff Wentworth, state senator from San Antonio; unseated in 2012 by Donna Campbell
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• John H. Wood, Jr., federal judge in San Antonio until 1979, when he was assassinated by convicted murderer-forhire Charles Harrelson, father of actor Woody Harrelson • John C. Woods, executioner of the Nuremberg Trials; master sergeant in United States Army • Lou Zaeske, born in San Antonio in 1941, began English-only movement in Texas and was advocate for Czech ethnic causes 1.
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• Julian Castro, 2009– present, city councilman who garnered national attention for campaign stunts involving his identical twin brother, Joaquín, a state legislator, in 2005 mayoral bid • Phil Hardberger, 2005–2009 • Howard Peak, 1997– 2001 • Nelson Wolff, 1991– 1995 • Henry Cisneros, 1981–1989, Secretary of HUD under President World Views Guides
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of the United States Bill Clinton • Lila Cockrell, 1976– 1981, 1989–1991 • Maury Maverick, Sr., 1939–1941 • Juan Seguin, 1841– 1842 • Sam Maverick, 1839–1840 3. Artists Carl Hoppe • Porfirio Salinas • Julian Onderdonk, landscape painter • Verner Moore White •
4. Architects • O’Neil Ford • Alfred Giles (1853–1920) Designed many historic homes and courthouses, including the Pershing House • Robert Hugman, most noted in for designing the horseshoe section of the San Antonio River Walk 5. Fashion • Suzy Parker, actress, supermodel favorite of Coco Chanel and photographer Richard Avedon.
6. Film and television Kevin Alejandro, actor (True Blood) • Jesse Borrego, actor (Blood In Blood Out) • Taylor Ball, actor (Still Standing) • Gil Birmingham (b. 1966), Comanche actor (Twilight film series) • Dustin Lance Black, screenwriter (Milk) • Pat Boyette, KENS-TV news anchor, comic book artist, actor, composer, film director • Lara Flynn Boyle, actress (Twin Peaks), married San Antonio businessman Donald Ray Thomas in 2006 • Carol Burnett, Emmy Award-winning actress and comedienne • Wendell Burton, actor (The Sterile Cuckoo) • Cass Ole (d. 1993), Arabian stallion from films The Black Stallion and The Black Stallion Returns; buried at his owner’s home in San Antonio. • John Quiñones (b. 1952), TV journalist and presenter • Ricardo Antonio Chavira, actor (Desperate •
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Housewives) • Jessica Collins, actress (Heroes) • Joan Crawford (19041977), Academy Awardwinning film actress • Olivia de Havilland, Academy Award-winning film actress (Gone With the Wind) • Dayna Devon, TV presenter • Jade Esteban Estrada, actor, comedian • Al Freeman, Jr., Emmy Award-nominated actor (One Life to Live) • Thomas Gibson, actor (Criminal Minds) • Summer Glau, actress (Firefly) • Pedro GonzalezGonzalez, actor (Rio Bravo) • Jackie Earle Haley, Academy Awardnominated actor (Little Children) • Ann Harding, actress • Daisy and Violet Hilton, British-born conjoined twins (Freaks) • Tommy Lee Jones, Academy Award-winning actor; Jones’ ex-wife, Kimberlea Moser, is the daughter of San Antonio’s
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Mayor Phil Hardberger • Nicholas Gonzalez, actor (Resurrection) • Jana Jordan, adult film star • Callie Khouri, Academy Award-winning screenwriter • Jim Lehrer, anchor of PBS NewsHour • Hal LeSueur, actor and brother of Joan Crawford • Chris Marrou, TV personality and news anchor at KENS. • Bruce McGill, actor (MacGyver, National Lampoon’s Animal House) • Ashley Austin Morris, actress (The New Electric Company) • Pola Negri, silent film actress • John Allen Nelson, actor (24) • Oliver North, Fox News commentator and presenter, Marine colonel who assisted opponents of Nicaragua’s Sandinista government • Derek Lee Nixon, actor (When in Rome) • Norah O’Donnell, NBC News correspondent
• Jared Padalecki, actor (Gilmore Girls, Supernatural) • Fred Parker Jr., actor (The Best Man, I Saw the Light) • Ann Prentiss, actress (Starsky and Hutch) • Paula Prentiss, actress (The Stepford Wives, What’s New, Pussycat?), wife of actordirector Richard Benjamin and sister of Ann Prentiss • Sendhil Ramamurthy, actor (Heroes) • Kevin Reynolds, film director and screenwriter • Emilio Rivera, actor (Lie to Me) • James Roday, actor (Psych) • Michelle Rodriguez, actress (Lost) • Robert Rodríguez, film director (Spy Kids) • Jayne Walton Rosen, entertainer with Lawrence Welk • Karen Sharpe, actress and wife of producerdirector Stanley Kramer • Ginny Sims, singer with Kay Kyser orchestra from 1938-1942 • Kim Spradlin, TV personality (Survivor: One World Views Guides | 2014
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World) • Andy Stahl (b. 1952), actor • Henry Thomas, actor (Gangs of New York, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) • Peter Weller, actor (RoboCop) 7. Other • José María Jesús Carbajal, military officer in the Mexican-American War; born in San Fernando de Béxar, present-day San Antonio • Mitch Clem, cartoonist and writer, lives outside of San Antonio, in Kirby, Texas • Davy Crockett, frontiersman; fought in the Battle of the Alamo • King Fisher, rancher and gunfighter from Eagle Pass, was murdered in the Vaudeville Theater Ambush in 1884 • Joseph Gottschalk, “Thong Man” • Vivian Liberto, former wife of country music legend Johnny Cash, mother of Rosanne Cash
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Basketball
• Fennis Dembo, forward, played for the NBA world champion Detroit Pistons in 1989 and graduated from Fox Tech High School • Keith Edmonson, forward, played for several NBA teams in 1982–83 and graduated from Douglas MacArthur High School • Jeff Foster, center, Indiana Pacers, since 1999 and who graduated from James Madison High School • Askia Jones, guard, played for the Minnesota Timberwolves, graduated from John Marshall High School • Wesley Matthews, guard for the Portland Trail Blazers and Utah Jazz 8. Scientists • Shaquille O’Neal, Robert Cade, medical center, Basketball Hall of
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Famer, graduated from Robert G. Cole High School, Fort Sam Houston, after leading his team to a 36–0 record and state championship; four-time NBA world champion with the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat • Bo Outlaw, forward, played for several NBA teams between 1994 and 2006, graduated from John Jay High School • Trent Plaisted, forward, drafted 46th overall in the 2008 NBA Draft, plays overseas for K.K. Zadar in Croatia; graduated from Tom Clark High School • Ben Uzoh, guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers and New Jersey Nets; graduated from Earl Warren High School in 2006 2.
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Scott Ankrom (John Jay High School) • Patrick Bailey (Alamo Heights High School) • Glenn Blackwood (Churchill) • Lyle Blackwood •
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(Churchill) • Chris Bordano (Southwest) • Cody Carlson (Churchill) • Keith Cash (Holmes) • Kerry Cash (Holmes) • Bruce Collie (Robert E. Lee) • Tony Darden (Holmes) • Trey Darilek (Robert E. Lee) • Ty Detmer (Southwest) • Quintin Demps (Roosevelt) • Ronald Flemons (Marshall) • Erik Flowers (Roosevelt) • Darryl Grant (Highlands) • Derwin Gray (Judson) • Gary Green (American football) (Sam Houston) • Cedric Griffin (Holmes) • W e l d o n Humble
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(Brackenridge) • David Hill (tight end) (Highlands) • Priest Holmes (Marshall) • Carlyle Holiday (Roosevelt) • Sam Hurd (Brackenridge) • A.J. Johnson (Clemens) • N.D. Kalu (Marshall) • Wade Key (Edison) • Tommy Kramer (Robert E. Lee) • Travis Lewis (Robert E. Lee) • Wane McGarity (Clark) • Warren McVea (Brackenridge) • Willie Mitchell (football player) (Brackenridge) • Sammy Morris (Jay) • Tommy Nobis (Jefferson) • Joe Pawelek (Smithson Valley) • Robert Quiroga (Holmes) • Reggie Rivers (Randolph)
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Randy Choate, MLB relief pitcher • Jerry Grote, MLB two-time All-Star catcher • Alva Jo Fischer, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player inducted into the San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame and the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame • Bob Heise, MLB •
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player for the Mets, Giants, Brewers, Cardinals, Angels, Red Sox and Royals • Joe Horlen, MLB AllStar pitcher for Chicago White Sox and Oakland A’s • Cliff Johnson, MLB catcher • Brandon Larson, MLB player for the St.Louis Cardinals • Boone Logan (born in Helotes), MLB pitcher for the Yankees, White Sox and Braves • Jeff Manship, MLB player for the Minnesota Twins
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• Josh Davis, (Churchill High School), Olympic gold medalist • Jimmy Feigen, (Churchill High School), Olympic silver medalist 7.
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• Jennifer Gutierrez (Holmes), Olympic triathlete • Anjanette Kirkland (Holmes), World Championships gold 4. P r o f e s s i o n a l medalist in 100-meter hurdles Bodybuilding • Darold Williamson • Heather Armbrust (Oliver Wendell Holmes • Vickie Gates High School), Olympic 5. P r o f e s s i o n a l gold medalist in 4x400meter relay Wrestling • Tully Blanchard • Shoichi Funaki • Jose Lothario • Shawn Michaels
High School R o d e o Association champion bull rider, member of Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, Top 15 Bull Riders at 1967 National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, current partner/ manager of La Escalera Ranch, son of San Antonio general contractor /rancher Gerald Lyda. 11. Music industry
• Jay Boy Adams, singer, songwriter, guitarist; businessman in Comfort • Moe Bandy, country singer from San Antonio area, Lone Oak, Texas, brother of professional bull rider Mike Bandy, recorded “Bandy the 10. Professional rodeo Rodeo Clown” and other hits for Columbia Records, • Gene Lyda, regularly performs in professional bull rider from Branson, Missouri Somerset, Texas, National • Aaron Barker, World Views Guides | 2014
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country singer/songwriter • Johnny Bush, country singer, performed with Ray Price’s Cherokee Cowboys and Willie Nelson’s Record Men band, wrote and had a smash RCA Victor single with “Whiskey River”, lives in San Antonio, wrote autobiography Whiskey River, Take My Mind • Vikki Carr, pop and Latin singer, recorded for Liberty Records, provided background vocals for Bob Wills during Wills’ Liberty Records sessions; lives in San Antonio • Bill Cody, host for WSM-AM morning show in Nashville; country music radio personality from 1987-1994 in San Antonio at KKYX-AM, host of Great American Country’s “Classic Country Weekend With Bill Cody” and Great American Country’s “Master Series” • Christopher Cross, Oscar Award-winning singer/songwriter and four-time Grammy Award winner • Al Dean, country singer and bandleader of “The All-Stars”, recorded World Views Guides
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hugely popular “National Anthem of Texas” “CottonEyed Joe” which is played at San Antonio Spurs basketball games • Jessy Dixon, black gospel singer born in San Antonio, regular on Gaither Homecoming video series • Holly Dunn, country singer/songwriter, radio personality • Steve Earle, progressive country singer/songwriter, married to singer Allison Moorer, sister of singer Shelby Lynne • Alejandro Escovedo, punk rock, roots rock, alternative country singer/songwriter, from a family that boasts several professional musicians • Robert Fitzpatrick, actor, entertainment lawyer who managed such acts as Bee Gees, The Who, Rolling Stones, Cream, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, The Buckinghams, Dick Dale & the Del-Tones, Dobie Gray, Taj Majal and Peggy Lee • Rosie Flores, rockabilly and country
music artist; toured with Wanda Jackson and Asleep at the Wheel • Pat Green, singer/ songwriter of Texas music • Gibby Haynes, founding member and lead singer of the Butthole Surfers, a popular rock band formed at Trinity University • Tish Hinojosa, Tejano singer, recorded for A & M Records and Watermelon Records • Adolph Hofner, country singer, toured Texas festivals, fairs and rodeos with his band The Pearl Wranglers, had daily radio program on KMAC radio, sponsored by Pearl Beer, recorded for Okeh Records • Flaco Jimenez, Tejano and conjunto musician, accordionist, member of Texas Tornadoes • Bobby Jarzombek, drummer for bands such as Halford (band), Sebastian Bach and Spastic Ink; brother of Ron Jarzombek. • Upon a Burning Body, deathcore band • Ron Jarzombek, guitarist for bands such as
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S.A. Slayer (San Antonio Slayer), Watchtower, Spastic Ink and Blotted Science,; brother of Bobby Jarzombek • Paul Leary, a founding member and guitarist of the Butthole Surfers, a popular rock band formed at Trinity University • Marshall Dyllon, country vocal group consisting of brothers Paul Martin and Michael Martin, Todd Sansom, Jess Littleton and Daniel Cahoon, charted three Top 50 Billboard country songs, Live It Up (2000), You (2001) and She Ain’t Gonna Cry (2000) • Ally Brooke, singer and member of girlgroup Fifth Harmony • Austin Mahone, soloist singer • Jordan McCoy, American Juniors runnerup, signed with Sean (Puffy) Combs • Red River Dave McEnery, hillbilly singer/ songwriter, film, radio and recording star; in the early 1940s, returned to San Antonio and broadcast
his songs on XERF radio located along Texas/ Mexico border; appeared in several B-Western films, including 1944’s Swing in the Saddle • Augie Meyers, TexMex, country and rock musician, member of The Texas Tornadoes, founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet, charted Top 100 Billboard solo country hit Kap Pa So (1988) on AtlanticAmerican Records, session keyboardist for Bob Dylan’s Grammy-winning album of the year Time Out Of Mind(1998) and its follow-up, Love and Theft, 2001 Columbia Records • Michael Morales (musician), Grammy Award-winning pop artist who had two Billboard top-40 hits in the early 1990s; graduated from San Antonio’s Oliver Wendell Holmes High School • Emilio Navaira, Grammy Award-winning Tejano music and country music singer • Michael Nesmith, singer/songwriter, member of group The Monkees and
co-star of their NBC-TV musical-comedy series, producer of award-winning video Elephant Parts; early member of band Denny Ezba and the Goldens along with Keith Allison (“Where the Action Is” and Paul McCartney lookalike bass player in Paul Revere and the Raiders), Augie Meyers, and Wayne Hensley • Offbeats, a San Antonio-based garage/ punk band • Chris Pérez, Tejano, Latin Rock guitarist, who married Tejano singer Selena • Ray Peterson, 1960s pop singer whose major hits included Corrina, Corrina, Missing You, The Wonder of You and Tell Laura I Love Her for RCA Victor Records • Elida Reyna, Tejano, lead singer of Latin Grammy Award winning band Elida Y Avante • Emily Robison, plays banjo, dobro, guitar and vocals in Grammy Awardwinning country music group the Dixie Chicks • Robert Xavier World Views Guides | 2014
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Rodriguez, classical composer • Doug Sahm, TexMex, country and rock musician, member of Texas Tornadoes, leader of the Sir Douglas Quintet which recorded such hits as “She’s About a Mover” and “Mendocino” • Olga Samaroff, concert pianist and first wife of conductor Leopold Stokowski • John Schneider, actor and singer, best known as “Bo Duke” on CBSTV series The Dukes of Hazzard, had 18 Top 100 Billboard hits on the country chart, appeared as “Curley” in television film Stagecoach starring Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, San Antonio resident • George Strait, Grammy Award-winning country music superstar, has more than 60 No. 1 hits including The Chair and “All My Ex’s Live in Texas”; starred in Universal Pictures film Pure Country, lives in San Antonio • Kevin Talley, heavy metal drummer with bands World Views Guides
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such as Dying Fetus, Chimaira and Daath • Ernest Tubb, singer/ songwriter, inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame, member of Grand Ole Opry, lived in San Antonio in the 1940s • Justin Tubb, singer/ songwriter, member of Grand Ole Opry, son of country music legend Ernest Tubb, born in San Antonio • Ron Jarzombek, guitarist for bands such as S.A. Slayer (San Antonio Slayer) • Sunny Ozuna, singer for Sunny & the Sunglows • Michael Parker AKA Worldwide, rapper, emcee and producer 12. Writers • Jacques Barzun, leading cultural historian • Sandra Cisneros, author, lives in a purple house in the city’s King William District • Light Townsend Cummins, historian and author • Heloise, syndicated advice columnist, lives in suburb of Helotes
• Esther Hicks, San Antonio-based best-selling author and inspirational speaker, Law of Attraction, Ask & It Is Given, The Astonishing Power of Emotions • Naomi Shihab Nye, writer and poet • Barbara Ras, San Antonio writer and publisher, The Last Skin, Bite Every Sorrow, One Hidden Self, and Costa Rica: A Traveler’s Literary Companion • Rick Riordan, San Antonio-based novelist, Big Red Tequila, The Last King of Texas, Southtown, Mission Road, Percy Jackson & the Olympians, The Kane Chronicles, The Heroes of Olympus, The Maze of Bones, Vespers Rising • Whitley Strieber, writer and film producer, Communion, The Hunger and Wolfen 13. Religion • James T. Draper, Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1982 to 1984, was a pastor in San Antonio in the early
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1960s. • Patrick Flores (born 1929), retired Catholic Archbishop of San Antonio (archbishop from 1979 to 2004) • José Gomez, Catholic Archbishop of San Antonio • John Hagee, televangelist and pastor of Cornerstone Church • Cardinal William H. Keeler, born in San Antonio; Archbishop of Baltimore • Max Lucado, bestselling Christian author and pastor of the city’s Oak Hills Church. • Samuel M. Stahl – Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Beth-El (San Antonio, Texas). 14. Billionaires • Charles Butt, H-E-B • Rodney Lewis, oil and natural gas industrialist, worth $2.8 billion • Lowry Mays, Clear Channel Communications • B. J. (Red) McCombs, founding partner in Clear Channel, auto dealer, and former owner of the San Antonio Spurs, Minnesota Vikings, and Denver
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attorney from Lubbock 15. Civic leaders • Jeff Smisek, President • Tom Benson, owner and CEO of United of New Orleans Saints and Airlines; graduate of Roosevelt High School automobile dealer • Ferdinand Ludwig 17. Hill Country residents Herff, medical pioneer • Peter Holt, chairman • Brian Benben, actor, of Spurs, partner in star of two HBO series, Caterpillar, Inc. Dream On and The Brian • Herb Kelleher, Benben Show, married to chairman of Southwest actress Madeleine Stowe, Airlines lives in Fredericksburg, • Robert F. McDermott, Texas chairman emeritus of • Thomas Haden USAA Church, Academy Award• Ed Whitacre, retired nominated actor best CEO of SBC/AT&T known for roles in Wings, Sideways, and Spider-Man 16. P r o m i n e n t 3, lives in Bandera, Texas businessmen • Shelley Duvall, • Gerald Lyda, founder actress, best known for the and president of Lyda Inc. role of Wendy in Stanley and Lyda Constructors, Kubrick’s The Shining, as Inc.; owner of 320,000- well as Nashville, Popeye, acre (1,300km2) La and Annie Hall, lives in Blanco, Texas Escalera Ranch in Texas; former owner of Ladder • Olivia de Havilland, Ranch in Sierra County, Academy Award-winning actress who portrayed New Mexico • John T. Montford, kind-hearted Melanie in businessman in San Gone With the Wind, also Antonio since 2001; former starred in Charge of the chancellor of the Texas Light Brigade, Adventures Tech University System, of Robin Hood, The Sea former state senator and Hawk, Dodge City, They World Views Guides | 2014
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Died with Their Boots On and many other Warner Brothers films; in 1940s, the actress owned a Texas home in the San Antonio area near present day Boerne, Texas; Ms. de Havilland’s residence (now a restaurant) is part of a corporate meeting complex known as Guadalupe River Ranch • Johnny Manziel, NFL quarterback (the Cleveland Browns), was raised in Kerrville, Texas and graduated from Tivy High School • Jimmie Rodgers, singer and songwriter (“The Singing Brakeman”), inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame, lived in Kerrville, Texas • Karl Rove, top adviser to President of the United States George W. Bush • Madeleine Stowe, actress, The Last of the Mohicans, Stakeout, Blink, Short Cuts, Twelve Monkeys, Bad Girls, and Revenge, married to actor Brian Benben, lives in Fredericksburg
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Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) is a United States military facility located in San Antonio, Texas, USA. The facility is under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force 502d Air Base Wing, Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The facility is an amalgamation of the United States Army Fort Sam Houston, the United States Air Force Randolph Air Force Base and Lackland Air Force Base, which were merged on 1 October 2010. 1. Overview JBSA was established in accordance with congressional legislation implementing the recommendations of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. The legislation ordered the consolidation of the three facilities which were adjoining, but separate military installations, into a single joint base, one of 12 formed in the United States as a result of the law. Joint Base San Antonio
supports a population of 80,000 and supports students at three installations annually of up to 138,000. Upon becoming the largest single DoD installation/ enterprise, it has a total Plant Replacement Value of about 10.3 billion, lead a work force of over 8,000 personnel, manages an annual budget of 800 million, interface with 1,000 civic leaders of San Antonio, 20 smaller communities, four counties and four Congressional Districts, support more than 200 mission partners, supported and supporting units, and finally, support more than 250,000 other personnel including 425 retired general officers (2nd largest concentration in U.S.). 2. Fort Sam Houston The primary mission at Fort Sam Houston is as a medical training and support post. The 502d Mission Support Group performs the installation support mission . The post is the home of Army
North, Army South, Army 5th Recruiting Brigade, Brooke Army Medical Center, the Institute of Surgical Research, the Army Medical Department Center and School, the Army Medical Command and the 502d Air Base Wing. Fort Sam Houston provides facilities and support for the activities of garrison units and other tenant organizations. The post also supports the thousands of Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers who train there year round. Soldiers from Fort Sam Houston have participated in every American War since 1845 and have deployed worldwide in support of post-Cold War contingency operations. Together with Camp Stanley, Camp Bullis is part of the Leon Springs Military Reservation. Camp Bullis has provided firing ranges, training areas and logistics support to Fort Sam Houston and other active and reserve component units in South Texas for nearly 100 years. World Views Guides | 2014
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Its most frequent users are the Army Medical Department Center and School, Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute, Air Force Ground Combat Skills School and Army units stationed at Fort Sam Houston. There are currently 130 military personnel stationed at Bullis.
the installation support mission, supporting the 25,000 people at Lackland. The 802d ISG is the largest support group in CONUS. Its 2,300 personnel provide numerous services including security forces, protection, personnel services, communications, infrastructure support, lodging, recreational activities and food services.
3. Lackland Air Force Other major tenants include Base Air Reserve Command’s Lackland Air Force Base 433d Airlift Wing, the is home to more than 120 Texas Air National Guard Department of Defense and 149th Fighter Wing, the associate organizations, 59th Medical Wing, the including the 37th Training Air Force Intelligence, Wing, the largest training Surveillance and wing in the U.S. Air Force. Reconnaissance Agency, Lackland is the Air Force’s and the 67th Network only site for enlisted basic Warfare Wing. military training, and also offers professional 4. Randolph Air Force and technical skills, and Base English language training See Randolph Air Force for members of the U.S. Base for additional Air Force, other military information and history. services, government agencies, and allies. Its four Randolph is named after primary training functions Captain William Millican graduate more than 86,000 Randolph, a native of students annually. Austin, who was on the The 502d Installation base naming committee Support Group performs at the time of his death World Views Guides
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in a crash. It serves as headquarters of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) as well as the Air Force Personnel Center (AFPC) and is known as “the Showplace of the Air Force” because of the Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture in which all structures including hangars were constructed. The symbol of the base is a large water tower atop Building 100, housing the headquarters for Randolph’s major flying unit, the 12th Flying Training Wing (12 FTW). With its distinctive architecture, the wing’s headquarters has come to be known throughout the Air Force as “the Taj Mahal,” or simply “The Taj”. Randolph Air Force Base is home to more than 30 Department of Defense units including Headquarters Air Education and Training Command, Air Force Personnel Center, Air Force Recruiting Service, and the 12th Flying Training Wing. The
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Support Group performs the installation support mission at Randolph. It is the focal point for all base activities. It is composed of the 902d Force Support Squadron; the 902d Communications Squadron; the 902d Civil Engineer Squadron; the 902d Contracting Squadron; the 902d Logistics Readiness Squadron, and 902d Comptroller Squadron. These units serve the needs of the wing and tenant units on the base, including more than 15,000 people on the base and more than 24,000 Air Force retirees in the local area.
is to meet the needs of all three installations of JBSA, their missions and people and to optimize installation support while maximizing opportunities for greater joint military and community cooperation. This mission is carried out through the Mission Support Group located on each JBSA base. The 502d Air Base Wing previously functioned as the host unit for Maxwell Air Force Base from 1947 to 1 October 1994 when it inactivated.
5. 502d Air Base Wing The 502d Air Base Wing is a United States Air Force unit that provides installation support for Joint Base San Antonio. The 502d activated on 1 August 2009. The wing’s three Mission Support Groups perform the installation support mission at each major installation in the San Antonio area. The mission of the wing World Views Guides | 2014
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