First Bank of Texas
August 20, 2026
In 1822, Governor José Félix Trespalacios, political chief of the Province of Tejas and a colonel in the Mexican imperial armies, created the Banco Nacional de Tejas to solve the chronic problem of paying Spanish and Mexican troops stationed at Tejas outposts when specie arrived late or could not…
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