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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.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (/ m æ n ˈ d ɛ l ə / man-DEL-ə, [1] Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
Children passing a Nelson Mandela wall mural in the Township Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa Alamy I spent a couple of months this summer researching and writing a children's biography, Nelson ...
The 1994 general election, held on 27 April, was South Africa's first multi-racial election with full enfranchisement.The African National Congress won a 63 percent share of the vote at the election, and Mandela, as leader of the ANC, was inaugurated on 10 May 1994 as the country's first Black President, with the National Party's F.W. de Klerk as his first deputy and Thabo Mbeki as the second ...
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Texas: Governor; Lieutenant Governor; Attorney General; State Comptroller of Public Accounts; State Land Commissioner; State Agriculture Commissioner; Treasurer (before 1996) The table also indicates the historical party composition in the: State Senate; State ...
The Texas District Courts form part of the Texas judicial system and are the trial courts of general jurisdiction of Texas.As of January 2019, 472 district courts serve the state, each with a single judge, elected by partisan election to a four-year term.
The political party once led by Nelson Mandela has been a powerful symbol of liberation from white minority rule, attracting loyalty from millions of South Africans who remember life under apartheid.
This day in 1996, Nelson Mandela historically stepped down as President of South Africa. According to South African History Online, On 7 July 1996,in a television broadcast President Nelson ...