Lucas Alaman, the foreign minister in the junta that followed the downfall of Vicente Guerrero, opposed this man with the Law of April 6th, 1830, which this man successfully had overturned.  
The contract that this man inherited from his father stated that all of the people he recruited had to be Catholic, though he was able to coach them with essentially fraudulent oaths that satisfied his legal duty as empresario. Lucas Alaman, the foreign minister in the junta that followed the downfall of Vicente Guerrero, opposed this man with the Law of April 6th, 1830, which this man successfully had overturned.  Subsequent revisions of that law finally drove this man to back the rebellion of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna in the hope of retaining the concessions he received for recruiting American immigrants, but Santa Anna became a federalist and this man finally supported  independence from Mexico. This man lost his country's first presidential election to the hero of the Battle of San Jacinto, Sam Houston. For ten points, name this founder of anglo Texas, the capital of which is named for him.
The contract that this man inherited from his father stated that all of the people he recruited had to be Catholic, though he was able to coach them with essentially fraudulent oaths that satisfied his legal duty as empresario.
Stephen F. {Austin}