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Francis Richard Lubbock, the second child and eldest son of Dr. Henry T. W. and Susan Ann Saltus Lubbock, was born on October 16, 1815, in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States. His ancestors on both sides were of English stock and prominent as planters, ship-owners, and merchants. His father died in 1829, and he had to give up a private school education to become a clerk in Charleston.
Lubbock was educated in private schools until he was fourteen.
Lubbock's father died about 1829 and he was forced to take a clerkship in Charleston. He later removed to Hamburg, South Carolina, and in 1834 went to New Orleans where he opened a drugstore. In December 1836, he emigrated to Texas and opened a store, first in Velasco and later in Houston. In 1837 he became a clerk of the Texas Congress and was appointed comptroller of the Republic by President Houston, serving one year. He was again appointed comptroller in 1841 but resigned to look after the ranch he had acquired near Houston. For sixteen years he was the district clerk of Harris County.
Elected lieutenant-governor by the Democrats in 1857, he was defeated by Edward Clark in 1859, when Sam Houston was successful as the head of an independent ticket. Lubbock was a delegate to the Charleston convention of his party in 1860 and supported secession. In the summer of 1861, he defeated Edward Clark for the governorship. At the beginning of his administration, the treasury was empty, Texas bonds were unsalable, and the wild Indians were hostile. Lubbock exerted himself to strengthen the defenses and increase the resources of the state. At his suggestion the legislature raised a mounted regiment for frontier defense and in the spring of 1862 legislature created a military board, composed of the governor, comptroller, and treasurer, to provide means for the defense of the state. The board sought to raise funds by selling a part of the United States "indemnity bonds" acquired through the sale of the Santa Fé region in 1850, and by the exportation of cotton through Mexico. It also established a state foundry and a percussion-cap factory and contracted with private firms for the manufacture of arms for state troops, but these operations were only moderately successful.
At the close of his term, he was commissioned a colonel in the Confederate army, and served on the staff of General Magruder and then on that of General John A. Wharton in the campaign against Banks in Louisiana. In the summer of 1864, President Davis called him to Richmond as an adviser on trans-Mississippi affairs. He was captured with Davis in May 1865 and was imprisoned for several months in Fort Delaware.
After his release, he returned to Texas, opened commission houses in Houston and Galveston, turned to the ranch again, and lost everything in a beef-packery venture. He next became a tax collector of Galveston. In 1878 he was elected state treasurer and held this office until he voluntarily retired in 1891.
His Six Decades in Texas, or Memoirs of Francis Richard Lubbock, edited by C. W. Raines, was published in 1900. Though he was not possessed of extraordinary ability, he won and held public confidence. His last years were spent in Austin, where the bent form of the vivacious little old man, dressed on all important occasions in Confederate gray, was a familiar and popular figure.
Francis Richard Lubbock became an influential businessman and politician in Texas. He was distinguished during his service as a Confederate Colonel during the American Civil War and his service in the United States legislature. He played an important part in organizing state's military defenses and in developing a cloth and shoe factory at the state penitentiary.
Lubbock was a member of the Democratic Party. He supported the war measures of the Confederate government, maintained cordial relations with the military authorities, and endeavored by proclamations and public addresses to keep up the spirits of the people.
On February 5, 1835, Lubbock married Adele Baron, a member of a French Creole family of New Orleans. After the death of his first wife, he married, in December 1883, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Black; and twenty years later, on August 12, 1903, he married Mary Louise Scott.
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