Wright Patman

Wright Patman (b 1893) was Governor of Texas during the Second Great War. As it became clear that the Confederate States would lose that war, and as the US Army ran roughshod over his state, Patman seceded from the Confederacy and declared an independent Republic of Texas with himself as President. He immediately concluded a separate peace treaty with the US, sparing Texas the depravities which other Confederate states endured as the war ended.