LUBBOCK, Francis Richard, governor of Texas, born in Beaufort, South Carolina, 16 October. 1815. He was educated chiefly in Beaufort and Charleston, South Carolina, engaged in mercantile pursuits, in 1834 removed to New Orleans, and in 1836 to Texas. He settled in 1837 in Houston, Texas, building the third house in that place, was clerk of the Texas house of representatives in 1838, then appointed comptroller by President Houston, and while serving in this office was made adjutant of the force for the protection of the frontier. He returned to Houston in 1839, was comptroller again in 1841, and clerk of Harris county in 1843-'56. He was chosen lieutenant-governor in 1857, and governor in 1861, but declined a renomination in 1863, and at the expiration of his term entered the Confederate army as lieutenant-colonel, he was appointed on the staff of Jefferson Davis in 1864, with the rank of colonel, was with Mr. Davis when he was captured, and was confined in Fort Delaware till December, 1865. He resumed business in Houston in 1866, and removed in 1867 to Galveston, where he served three terms as city treasurer. Mr. Lubbock was chosen state treasurer of Texas in 1878. and was re-elected in 1882,1884, and 1886. In this office he has broken up the custom of speculating with comptroller's warrants, and has thus improved the financial standing of the state.