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Henderson King Yoakum (September 6 1810 – November 30 1856) was a Texas historian. He was born in Claiborne County Tennessee and graduated from West Point in 1832. Yoakum served in the Tennessee Senate from 1839 to 1845 and strongly advocated for the annexation of Texas. Yoakum served as the director of the state penitentiary in Huntsville Texas beginning in 1849.