1. Jose Antonio Navarro Timeline
By: Martin A Puczek

2. Jose Antonio Navarro Timeline
May 7,2015
Martin Puczek
In 1812 He came of age when San Antonio was a hotbed of revolution against Spanish rule, with continuous bloody clashes between the Spanish Army and Mexican rebels.
In 1795 Navarro was born in San Antonio de Béxar. His mother was a native of San Antonio, and his father, born in Corsica, was a successful merchant and the mayor of San Antonio.
In 1808 At age 13, Navarro’s leg was fractured by a blow, leaving him with a permanent limp and inflammation for the rest of his life.
In 1816 He returned to San Antonio and began work as a merchant. He and his wife Margarita had their first child in 1817.
Navarro purchased the 1.2-acre lot in downtown San Antonio, now the Casa Navarro State Historic Site.
Navarro made his final break with Mexico. At the Alamo, he and his uncle José Francisco Ruiz were elected to represent San Antonio at the convention for Texas Independence, and Navarro was appointed to the committee to draft the constitution of the Republic of Texas. Navarro, Ruiz, and Lorenzo de Zavala were the three Mexican signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence at Washington on the Brazos.
Navarro, in spite of his injured leg arrived in Mexico, where he underwent intense interrogations by Mexican authorities. He was offered freedom and a government position if he would renounce his allegiance to Texas. He steadfastly refused to betray his homeland and was convicted of treason and sentenced to death. The Mexican Supreme Court commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. Enraged, Santa Anna had Navarro transferred to the most dreaded prison in Mexico—the infamous San Juan de Ulúa in Vera Cruz.
In 1846 In recognition of his contributions to Texas, the legislature named the newly established Navarro County in his honor. The county seat was then designated Corsicana, in honor of his father’s Corsican birth.
In the 1850s To the end of his life, Navarro continued to be an outspoken advocate for Tejano rights. He urged Hispanics to defend their heritage "inch by inch" against the anti-Catholic Know-Nothing Party. Navarro wrote a series of newspaper articles in the 1850s, published together as Apuntes Históricos (Historical Notes), a book on Texas history in which he set the record straight about the contributions of the Tejanos to Texas independence. He pointed out that the citizens of Bexar and elsewhere fought for Texas freedom 25 years before the Alamo
In 1861 After the death of his wife in 1861, Navarro lived primarily at his Atascosa Ranch, alternating residence there and at his home in San Antonio. However, during his last years Navarro lived with his daughter and her family at his house on Laredo Street.
In 1871 Navarro died. The San Antonio Daily Herald wrote: “To none of her greatest statesmen, nor to her many eminent patriots, is Texas more indebted for her existence as a Republic, than José Antonio Navarro…his memory will be cherished with the fondest regard.”

3. 1. 2.
He helped the Independence of Texas.
He organized the Santa Fe Expedition.
3. He served two terms in the Texas senate before retiring.
4. He served as the commissioners of the Dewitt Colony.