Anson Jones, President of the Republic of…
February 1845 CE
In 1841, thirty-five delegates to the Union Baptist Association meeting had voted to adopt the suggestion of Rev. William Milton Tryon and R.E.B. Baylor to establish a Baptist university in Texas, at this time an independent republic.
Baylor, a Texas district judge and onetime U.S. Congressman and soldier from Alabama, becomes the school's namesake.
Some at first had wished to name the new university "San Jacinto" to recognize the victory that enabled the Texans to become an independent nation, but before the final vote of the Congress, the petitioners requested the university be named in honor of Judge R. E. B. Baylor.
In the fall of 1844, the Texas Baptist Education Society had petitioned the Congress of the Republic of Texas to charter a Baptist university.
The founders build the original university campus in Independence, Texas.
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