Government of Houston, Texas - Houston, Texas Mayoral Elections, Houston City Council Members, Houston Police Department, Mayors of Houston (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Houston, Texas mayoral elections, Houston City Council members, Houston Police Department, Mayors of Houston, Texas, History of the Houston Police Department, Bill White, Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, Houston elections, 2009, Peter Hoyt Brown, Sheila Jackson Lee, Politics of Houston, Lee P. Brown, Annise Parker, Chris Bell, Rob Todd, Jarvis Johnson, Rodney Ellis, Houston Fire Department, Harris County Hospital District, Anne Clutterbuck, Houston mayoral election, 2009, Bob Lanier, Melissa Noriega, Francis W. Moore, Jr., Frank Mancuso, Louie Welch, Thomas William House, Sr., Sue Lovell, Houston TranStar, 1200 Travis, Roy Hofheinz, Kathryn J. Whitmire, List of mayors of Houston, Ronald C. Green, Jim McConn, William R. Baker, Fred Hofheinz, Oscar F. Holcombe, Cornelius A. Pickett, Lewis Wesley Cutrer, Joseph Chappell Hutcheson, Jr., Houston mayoral election, 1997, John T. Browne, Seal of Houston, Houston mayoral election, 2003, Houston Airport System, Houston mayoral election, 2001, Otis Massey, Houston mayoral election, 1987, Houston mayoral election, 1991, Houston mayoral election, 2005, Houston mayoral election, 1989, Houston mayoral election, 2007, Houston mayoral election, 1993, Horace Baldwin Rice, Houston mayoral election, 1995, Martha Wong, Houston mayoral election, 1999, Flag of Houston, James Sanders Holman, James Bailey. Excerpt: The History of the Houston Police Department started with the founding of the City of Houston, while the department's beginning was humble, it grew more advanced as technology became available and was able to handle the various challenges that would plague various cities as well as some of the more distinctive aspects of our geography. The first constable of the then recently incorporated City of Houston was elected in 1837, making him the city's first law enforcement officer. The police fo...