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    Wharton is a city in and the county seat of Wharton County, Texas, United States. This city is 60 mi (97 km) southwest of Houston. Its population was...
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    Wharton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 41,570. Its county seat is Wharton. The county...
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  • County Junior College, in Wharton, Texas, United States Paul R. Wharton High School, in Tampa, Florida, United States Wharton Center for Performing Arts...
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    Wharton County Junior College (WCJC) is a public community college with its main campus in Wharton, Texas. The college also has campuses in Richmond,...
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    is a city in Wharton County, Texas, United States. The population was 12,350 at the 2020 Census, making it the largest city in Wharton County. According...
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    Dan Rather (category People from Wharton, Texas)
    since the 2006 departure. Rather was born on October 31, 1931, in Wharton County, Texas, the son of Daniel Irvin Rather Sr., a ditch digger and pipe layer...
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    secessionist, Wharton enlisted in the Confederate States Army as captain of Company B, 8th Texas Cavalry, also known as "Terry's Texas Rangers." Commissioned...
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    in 1827. John Austin Wharton arrived in Texas between 1829 and 1833. Upon arrival in Texas, Wharton became an agitator for Texas Independence from Mexico...
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  • Horton Foote (category People from Wharton, Texas)
    he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. Foote was born in 1916 in Wharton, Texas, the son of Harriet Gautier "Hallie" Brooks and Albert Horton Foote...
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    under a bridge overpass under State Highway 60 in Wharton Scene on the Colorado River, Austin, Texas (postcard, c. 1907) A historical marker on US 90A...
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