Oscar Branch Colquitt, the twenty-fourth Governor of Texas from 1911 to 1915, was known as "The Napoleon of Texas Politics" and "Little Oscar" because of his short stature and was regarded as a strong and independent chief executive whose stump speeches were among the most effective of his time. A descendant of American Revolution and Civil War fighters, he was born in Georgia and worked as a tenant farmer and newspaperman before serving as a Texas senator. He was railroad commissioner from 1903 to 1911, and his efforts in office for Galveston gained him the title "Daddy of the Causeway." In his second race for the office, he was elected governor on an anti-Prohibition ticket. His legal residence was in Terrell during both terms, and he had owned the Terrell "Times-Star" in the 1890s. While in office, he achieved prison reforms, helped preserve the Alamo as a Texas shrine, improved homes for the insane and retarded, spearheaded advancements in education, and backed labor bills. In 1885 he married Alice F. Murrell, and they had five children. After 1915 he entered private business and worked as a U.S. government official.