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Texas and National Disability Timeline 1835- 2009 This timeline contains mostly Texas information and is meant to capture the highlights of each year, not provide a complete history. National and international history is included when it impacted people in Texas. (The Texas Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities updates this history yearly and periodically to denote new information and to add to its history as events occur.) 1835 Samuel McCulloch, a man who was a free black, becomes the first Texan casualty of the revolution resulting in a disability when a musket ball shatters his right shoulder. Irish-born Thomas William (Peg Leg) Ward ventured to Texas in 1835 to fight in the Texas Revolution, but in his first day of action his right leg was hit by Mexican cannon fire and amputated. Four years later he lost his right arm to cannon fire in an accident. Though confronted with an unending problem of mobility and tormented by pain in his residual leg. Wards public career spanned three decades and a multiplicity of responsibilities—military officer, three-time mayor of Austin, presidential appointments as U.S. Consul to Panama and a federal customs official in Texas—but it was as Texas land commissioner during the 1840s that he particularly made his mark. At a time when land was the principal asset of the Texas republic and a magnet for immigrants, he fought to remedy the land systems many defects and to fulfill the promise of free land to those who settled and fought for Texas. If Ward had a remarkable career, his life was nonetheless troubled by symptoms comparable to those experienced by war veterans diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder—a hair-trigger temper, an impulse to violence, and marital discord. 1836 President David Burnet names Peter Grayson, who had a mental illness, Attorney General of the Republic of Texas. First Congress of the Republic elects Robert Three-Legged Willy Williamson county judge of the Third Judicial District, mak