A hero of the Battle of San Jacinto, Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar was the second president of this republic
... of Texas: 
The Life of Mirabeau B. Lamar, President of the Republic of Texas... [DOC] [TLE] Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar - Texas A&M University [PAR] Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, son of John and Rebecca (Lamar) Lamar, 
president of ... As the battle of San Jacinto was about to start, he was verbally 
commissioned a ... in the first national election, Lamar was elected vice president, 
an office in ... year 1837 in Georgia being feted as a hero and publicizing the new 
republic.