IV
107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. RES. 186
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States
Postal Service should issue a postage stamp commemorating Juan
Nepomuceno Seguin.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 28, 2001
Mr. GREEN of Texas (for himself, Mr. FROST, Mr. GONZALEZ, Mr. HALL of
Texas, Mr. RODRIGUEZ, Mr. LAMPSON, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. BENTSEN,
Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. ORTIZ, Mr. REYES, Mr. TURNER, Mr. STENHOLM,
Mr. SANDLIN, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHN-
SON of Texas, Mr. BACA, Ms. SOLIS, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr.
BONILLA, and Mr. BRADY of Texas) submitted the following resolution;
which was referred to the Committee on Government Reform
RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that
the United States Postal Service should issue a postage
stamp commemorating Juan Nepomuceno Seguin.
Whereas Juan Nepomuceno Seguin was born October 27,
1806, in San Fernando de Bejar, New Spain (known
today as San Antonio, Texas), and died on August 27,
1889;
Whereas Juan Nepomuceno Seguin fought for the rights of
all native Texans, despite constant threat of death, by op-
posing General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana’s blatant
disregard of the Mexican Constitution of 1824, which
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granted all citizens and subjects of Mexico their basic
human rights;
Whereas in 1835 Juan Nepomuceno Seguin sought to con-
vene the first revolutionary meeting in protest of the dev-
astating demands and actions of the government of Gen-
eral Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana;
Whereas on October 24, 1835, Juan Nepomuceno Seguin was
commended for his interception of vital documents sent
to General Martin Perfecto de Cos, commander of the
Mexican Army in Texas, and was appointed by the Com-
mander in Chief of the Texas volunteer army, Stephen F.
Austin, as the captain of a volunteer company of His-
panic farmers and ranchers;
Whereas the Seguin family supplied the Texas volunteer
army with cattle and crops from their ranch without com-
pensation, and encouraged other Hispanic ranchers to do
the same;
Whereas Juan Nepomuceno Seguin fought in the Battle of
Concepcion, which led to the occupation of the Mission
San Antonio de Valero (commonly known as the Alamo);
Whereas on December 9, 1835, Juan Nepomuceno Seguin
was an active participant in the liberation of San Anto-
nio, during which General Martin Perfecto de Cos surren-
dered and paroled his army by withdrawing it south of
the Rio Grande;
Whereas Juan Nepomuceno Seguin and the other volunteers
in his company were among the 189 brave and heroic
men who, on February 22, 1836, fell back to the rein-
forced battlements of the Alamo to which the Mexican
Army under the command of General Antonio Lopez de
Santa Ana laid siege;
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Whereas Juan Nepomuceno Seguin escaped the fate of the
other defenders of the Alamo because Colonel William B.
Travis sent him on an urgent mission to the town of
Goliad to seek reinforcements from Colonel James W.
Fannin on March 5, 1836, the day before the fall of the
Alamo;
Whereas Juan Nepomuceno Seguin, upon hearing of the fall
of the Alamo, promptly raised a new company for the de-
fense of Texas, and joined forces with General Sam
Houston, commander of the remaining Texas volunteer
army;
Whereas Juan Nepomuceno Seguin was among the 750 Tex-
ans who defeated 1,500 soldiers of the Mexican Army
near the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and the San
Jacinto River, which led to the establishment of the Re-
public of Texas and, later, statehood for Texas;
Whereas Juan Nepomuceno Seguin was an important polit-
ical figure in both the Republic and the State of Texas,
serving as mayor of San Antonio, senator in the Congress
of the Republic of Texas, and judge of Wilson County,
Texas;
Whereas Juan Nepomuceno Seguin has been recognized by
the State of Texas as a hero of its war for independence,
and has been honored by the citizens of Walnut Spring,
Texas, who renamed their town Seguin, Texas;
Whereas all children in the United States, regardless of
where they live, currently learn about Juan Nepomuceno
Seguin, a historically significant Hispanic figure; and
Whereas Juan Nepomuceno Seguin fought for freedom, jus-
tice, and dignity for all peoples: Now, therefore, be it
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Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that—
(1) the United States Postal Service should
issue a postage 
stamp 
commemorating 
Juan
Nepomuceno Seguin; and
(2) the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee
should recommend to the Postmaster General that
such a postage stamp be issued.
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