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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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    Victoria, US 59 passes through Edna, Ganado, El Campo, and Wharton. US 59 intersects many major Texas highways in Houston, including I-10 (which goes to San...
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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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    William Harris Wharton (April 27, 1802 – March 14, 1839) was an American colonist, diplomat, senator and statesman in early Texas. Wharton was born in Virginia...
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