Why is Austin the capital of Texas?

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Who decided it it be that? why was the name austin picked?

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When Texas was an independent country, the second president Mirabeau Lamer wanted to move the capitol from Houston to a site near a small Indian community called Waterloo. The place was named after Steven F. Austin who is referred to as the Father of Texas because he was the one who brought the first settlers into Spanish Texas. When Sam Houston was reelected after Lamar, he wanted the capitol to remain in Houston because near Austin and Waterloo was a small spring where the Indians would go to as a resort, and because of this, there were possible chances of Indian attacks. There were many conflicts over this matter but eventually Austin ended up the capitol. Source(s): Live in Texas/Austin. I also take a Texas History class.

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It is named after Stephen F. Austin. Look him up. Pretty cool dude. Houston is named after Gen Sam Houston. Another interesting character.
Because Mr. Austin was the head of those bloody terrorist separatist rebels.
South Central texas was the first area settled by Anglos in the state. Steven F. Austin was basically a real estate developer. There are many great historical towns around the area. Capital of the Republic of Texas was actually Washington on the Brazos.
http://austin.about.com/od/austinhistory...
It was named after Stephen F. Austin. He got the first land grant from the Mexican government and started bring white-American settlers in TX. The first capitol was in Houston which is the largest city in TX. Houston is named for Sam Houston, the general which beat the Mexican Army in the war for Texas Independence. It was moved to Austin during the civil war because Houston is near the coast and they were afraid of an invasion from the Union Army by the ocean. Austin at the time was in a more remote part of the state and could be defended better. After the civil war Austin was kept as the capitol