George Washington Brackenridge (January 14, 1832 – December 28, 1920) was a philanthropist and the longest-serving Regent for the University of Texas.

His donations of time, land holdings and wealth expanded the university and provided educational opportunities for women and other minorities.

The Brackenridge name in Texas descended from Scotch-Irish Robert Breckenridge Sr., who emigrated from Northern Ireland with his brother Alexander about 1730.

[5] John Adams Brackenridge (1800–1862) was a law graduate of Princeton University who opened a practice in Warrick County, Indiana.

The DAR certified that Charles Baskin (1741–1822) served during the American Revolutionary War under General Daniel Morgan.

John, Isabella and many of their children are buried in the Brackenridge Family Cemetery in Jackson County, Texas.

[12] James M. Brackenridge (1834–1905) enlisted with the Confederate States Army, and afterwards became a judge in Travis County, Texas.

[13] Robert John Brackenridge (1839–1918) served in the Confederate States Army in his brother Tom's unit in Texas.

She organized the Woman's Club of San Antonio in 1898 and focused its goals on women's suffrage and social issues of the day.

Eleanor organized the Texas Woman Suffrage Association and was a prohibitionist who supported the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

She became the first woman in San Antonio to register to vote after passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

[18] Lenora Helena Brackenridge Mathews (1842–1918) was a civic activist who helped establish a local chapter of the American Red Cross.

He was engaged in evading the Confederate States of America's cotton export ban to England and France.

His business partners were his father John, James H. Bates who had accompanied the family from Indiana, and Charles Stillman.

He traveled to Washington, D.C., where President Lincoln appointed him United States Treasury agent on July 30, 1863.

[10] As Lincoln's representative, he was dispatched to Mexico in 1864 to try to persuade Benito Juárez to cease cotton trade with the Confederacy.

The 25-year exclusive contract was awarded in 1877 to Jean Baptiste LaCoste[26][27] to operate the San Antonio Water Works Company .

[9][10][30] His financial donations to the university and its students include: Brackenridge served as the first president of the San Antonio School Board in 1899.

[42] The bronze statue of Brackenridge at the Broadway Street park entrance was sculpted by Pompeo Coppini in the 1930s and cast by Waldine Tauch.

Situated at the entrance to the park, the monument is a bust of Mahncke created by Pompeo Coppini resting on a granite pedestal designed by Frank Teich.

He died in San Antonio on December 28, 1920, and was buried with Masonic rites in the family cemetery near Edna, Jackson County.