page_title: East Texas
section_title: Other famous and notable East Texans
hierarchical_section_title: East Texas / Culture / Other famous and notable East Texans
caption_attribution_description: Lady Bird Johnson about age 3
context_page_description: East Texas is a distinct cultural, geographic, and ecological area in the U.S. state of Texas.
  According to the Handbook of Texas, the East Texas area "may be separated from the rest of Texas roughly by a line extending from the Red River in north-central Lamar County southwestward to east-central Limestone County and then southeastward towards eastern Galveston Bay", though most sources separate the Gulf Coast area into a separate region.
  Another popular, somewhat simpler, definition defines East Texas as the region between the Trinity River, north and east of Houston, as the western border, the Louisiana border as the eastern border, the Gulf of Mexico as the southern border, the Oklahoma border as the northern border, Arkansas as the northeastern border, and extending as far south as Orange, Texas. The East Texas regions includes Tyler, Longview, Lufkin, Marshall, Palestine, Henderson, Jacksonville, Mount Pleasant, and Nacogdoches
  Most of the region consists of the Piney Woods ecoregion, and East Texas can sometimes be reduced to include only the Piney Woods. At the fringes, towards Central Texas, the forests expand outward toward sparser trees and eventually into open plains.
context_section_description: Sandy Duncan, Henderson, Rusk County and Tyler, Smith County
  George Foreman, Marshall, Harrison County
  Jamie Foxx, Terrell, Kaufman County
  Sam Houston, former president of the Republic of Texas, former governor of Texas, retired in Huntsville, Walker County
  Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady of the United States, born in Karnack, Harrison County
  Joe R. Lansdale, award-winning author and martial arts expert, born in Gladewater, Gregg County
  Richard Linklater, film-maker, Huntsville, Walker County
  Matthew McConaughey, Longview, Gregg County
  Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, founder of Pilgrim's Pride Chicken, Pittsburg, Camp County
  Ross Perot, former U.S. presidential candidate born in Texarkana, Bowie County
  Adrian Peterson, Palestine, Anderson county
  Tye Sheridan, Elkhart, Anderson County
  Carroll Shelby, racer and car developer known for Shelby Cobra and numerous Ford and Chrysler products, Leesburg, Camp County
  Sissy Spacek, Quitman, Wood County
  William B. Travis, famous commander at the Alamo, settled in Anahuac, Chambers County
  Forest Whitaker, Longview, Gregg County
  Former United States Senators:
  Horace Chilton born near Tyler, Smith County
  Charles Allen Culberson settled in Gilmer, Upshur County and Jefferson, Marion County
  James W. Flanagan settled in Henderson, Rusk County
  Samuel B. Maxey settled in and practiced law in Paris, Lamar County
  John Henninger Reagan practiced law in Palestine and Henderson County
  Thomas Jefferson Rusk settled in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, and was also a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas
  Morris Sheppard born in Morris County
  Matthias Ward settled in Clarksville, Red River County and Jefferson, Marion County
  Louis Wigfall lived in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County and Marshall, Harrison County
  Ralph Yarborough born in Chandler, Henderson County
  Other former governors of Texas:
  Thomas Mitchell Campbell, born in Rusk, Cherokee County
  Oscar Branch Colquitt, newspaper owner in Pittsburg, Camp County and in Morris County
  Price Daniel, born in Dayton, Liberty County
  James Pinckney Henderson, first governor of Texas, practiced law in San Augustine, San Augustine County
  William P. Hobby, born in Moscow, Polk County
  Jim Hogg, born in Rusk, Cherokee County
  Richard B. Hubbard, lived in Tyler, Smith County and Lindale, Smith County
  Allan Shivers, born in Lufkin, Angelina County
  Ross S. Sterling, born in Anahuac, Chambers County
  Mark White, born in Henderson, Rusk County
  George Tyler Wood, second governor of Texas, settled near Point Blank in Liberty County and San Jacinto County
caption: Lady Bird Taylor Johnson around age three in East Texas
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