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The 1970 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough was defeated by former U.S. Representative Lloyd Bentsen in the Democratic primary. Bentsen then defeated Republican U.S. Representative and future president George H. W. Bush in the general election.
Texas has two uniform election dates, the first Saturday in May, and the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. [ 7 ] As of 2024, 99.5 percent of registered voters in Texas are in jurisdictions using voting methods with some form of auditable paper ballot , an established best practice for recounts and audits. [ 8 ]
On June 28, 1919, Texas ratified the amendment. [85] The house approved it by a vote of 96 to 21 on June 23 and the senate passed it by a voice vote five days later. [86] Texas was the ninth state and the first Southern state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. [62] That same month the Texas Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (TAOWS ...
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress. Senators have been directly elected by state-wide popular vote since the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913. A senate term is six years with no term limit. Every two years a third of the seats are up for election.
Between January 1918 and June 1919, the House and Senate voted on the federal amendment five times. [42] [51] [52] Each vote was extremely close and Southern Democrats continued to oppose giving women the vote. [51] Suffragists pressured President Wilson to call a special session of Congress and he agreed to schedule one for May 19, 1919.
2nd: December 1, 1919 – June 5, 1920 3rd : December 6, 1920 – March 3, 1921 The 66th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, comprising the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives .
The 1924 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 4, 1924. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Morris Sheppard was re-elected to a third term in office, easily dispatching his challengers.
The change superseded the Twelfth Amendment's reference to March 4 as the date by which the House of Representatives must—under circumstances where no candidate won an absolute majority of votes for president in the Electoral College—conduct a contingent presidential election. [9] The new date reduced the period between election day in ...