 Texas City incorporated in 1911 with a mayor and commission form of government.It held its first mayoral election on September 16, choosing William P. Tarpey as mayor.The 2nd Division of the United States Army deployed to Texas City in 1913 to guard the Gulf Coast from incursions during the Mexican Revolution, essentially encamping nearly half of the nation's land military personnel there, due to the perceived double threat that the Mexican Revolution might spill over across the border or that the neighboring country might become a German ally in the incipient World War.