[ Autographs ] SAM HOUSTON 1793 - 1863) American soldier and politician, defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto and became first president of the Republic of Texas. Partly-printed D.S., 1p.12mo., Feb3,1860, a State of Texas Treasury Warrant providing funds for the "Protection of the Frontier", signed by Houston on the verso. Some show-through to signature from ink cancel on recto, moderate soiling, about good.