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Perot was the first non-major party candidate to win any Texas counties since George Wallace in 1968. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time these four aforementioned counties have not voted Republican, [5] and the last time a non-major party candidate won any of Texas's counties. Loving County, which was the country's ...
Buchanan's best showing was in the New Hampshire primary on February 18, 1992—where Bush won by a 53–38% margin. [17] President Bush won 73% of all primary votes, with 9,199,463 votes. Buchanan won 2,899,488 votes; unpledged delegates won 287,383 votes, and David Duke, Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, won 119,115 votes.
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Texas, ordered by year.Since its admission to statehood in 1845, Texas has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the 1864 election during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the 1868 election, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
President Bush attended the game with his wife Laura as the Rangers faced off against the Houston Astros in the American League Championship series.
The Texas Rangers Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise was established in 1961 as the Washington Senators, an expansion team awarded to Washington, D.C., after the old Washington Senators team of the American League moved to Minnesota and became the Twins. The new Senators remained in Washington through 1971.
By the early 1830s, the Mexican War of Independence had subsided, and some 60 to 70 families had settled in Texas—most of them from the United States. Because there was no regular army to protect the citizens against attacks by native tribes and bandits, in 1823, Stephen F. Austin organized small, informal armed groups whose duties required them to range over the countryside, and who thus ...
President George W. Bush has a strong connection to the Rangers after purchasing a small stake in the team in 1989. Former U.S. President, Texas Rangers owner to throw out World Series first pitch ...
The 1992 Texas general election was held on November 3, 1992, in the U.S. state of Texas.Voters statewide elected the U.S. President, Railroad Commissioner.Statewide judicial offices up for election were three justices of the Texas Supreme Court and three judges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.