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He was involved in a legal dispute over land.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=A-kaAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA242&lpg=RA1-PA242&dq=webster+flanagan+rusk&source=bl&ots=kJ6AFMMx4E&sig=ACfU3U1b68jhGzSfgjgL31GzJJXPlDl-Sw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc88Oiv_XtAhUmvlkKHT3yBlc4FBDoATAFegQIBRAC#v=onepage&q=webster%20flanagan%20rusk&f=false</ref> Hill High School was constructed on land that was oncepart of his estate.
He was involved in a legal dispute over land.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=A-kaAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA242&lpg=RA1-PA242&dq=webster+flanagan+rusk&source=bl&ots=kJ6AFMMx4E&sig=ACfU3U1b68jhGzSfgjgL31GzJJXPlDl-Sw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc88Oiv_XtAhUmvlkKHT3yBlc4FBDoATAFegQIBRAC#v=onepage&q=webster%20flanagan%20rusk&f=false</ref> Hill High School was constructed on land that was oncepart of his estate.


He opposed Governor Davis' martial law initiatives.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=BQJKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=webster+flanagan+rusk&source=bl&ots=I_rrOxuRHE&sig=ACfU3U1dybESSGV3J1epFec_IR4BH2jjOA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjm69S-wvXtAhUD11kKHTXjAKo4HhDoATACegQICRAC#v=onepage&q=webster%20flanagan%20rusk&f=false</ref>
He opposed Governor [[Edmund Jackson Davis]]' martial law initiatives.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=BQJKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=webster+flanagan+rusk&source=bl&ots=I_rrOxuRHE&sig=ACfU3U1dybESSGV3J1epFec_IR4BH2jjOA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjm69S-wvXtAhUD11kKHTXjAKo4HhDoATACegQICRAC#v=onepage&q=webster%20flanagan%20rusk&f=false</ref>


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David Webster Flanagan (January 9, 1832 - May, 5 1924) was a state senator in Texas.[1] His father, James Winright Flanagan, served as Lieutenant Governor and U.S. Senator from Texas.

A Unionist, he nevertheless served in the Confederate cavalry during the American Civil War.

He and his father were delegates at the Texas Constitutional Convention held in 1868 and 1869 after which they supported dividing Texas into three states.[2] Web Flanagan was a delegate at the 1875 Texas Constitutional Convention. After his first wife died he remarried.[3]

David Webster Flanagan was buried in the Flanagan Cemetery in Henderson, Texas.

He married Elizabeth Graham in 1853.[4] They had six children: Charles C., Emmet C., Marian, Horace B., and Bonnie May. Elizabeth Flanagan died in 1872. He then married Sallie Phillip Ware.

He was involved in a legal dispute over land.[5] Hill High School was constructed on land that was oncepart of his estate.

He opposed Governor Edmund Jackson Davis' martial law initiatives.[6]

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