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Handbook of Texas Online: RUNNELS, HARDIN RICHARD (923 words) |
 | Hardin R. Runnels, governor and legislator, the son of Hardin D. and Martha "Patsy" Burch (Darden) Runnels, was born on August 30, 1820, in Mississippi. |
| Runnels won by a vote of 38,552 to 23,628 and thus became the only person ever to defeat Sam Houston in an election. |
| Although Runnels supported and signed into law bills that called for the raising of temporary ranger battalions to meet the emergency, he opposed efforts to form permanent battalions on the grounds that the state could not afford them and that the federal government was responsible for protecting the frontier. |
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