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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 Irish National Caucus (INC) was founded in 1974 by Father Seán Gabriel McManus at a meeting of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH), an Irish-Catholic fraternal organization. [1] The INC lobbies for the MacBride Principles , a manifesto that demands the cooperation of US companies doing business in Northern Ireland in fighting alleged ...
The Irish exerted their own influence inside the United States, particularly through Democratic Party politics. From 1820 to 1860, 2 million Irish arrived in the United States, 75% of these after the Great Irish Famine (or The Great Hunger ) of 1845–1852, struck. [ 5 ]
The two colonies were settled mainly by Irish, but also by Mexicans and other nationalities. At least 87 Irish-surnamed individuals settled in the Peters Colony, which included much of present-day north-central Texas, in the 1840s. The Irish participated in all phases of Texas' war of independence against Mexico.
Al Smith – New York governor, Democratic Party presidential candidate (Irish born grandparents from Westmeath; Smith identified as an Irish American) James Smith – signatory to the Declaration of Independence; Peter J. Somers – Milwaukee mayor; Brian P. Stack – Mayor of Union City, New Jersey [53] Michael J. Stack – US Congressman
For about a hundred years, from after Reconstruction until the 1990s, the Democratic Party dominated Texas politics, making it part of the Solid South.In a reversal of alignments, since the late 1960s, the Republican Party has grown more prominent.
The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature. It consists of 150 members who are elected from single-member districts for two-year terms. There are no term limits. The House meets at the State Capitol in Austin.
The 2004 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas occurred on November 2, 2004, to elect the members of the state of Texas's delegation to the United States House of Representatives. Texas had thirty-two seats in the House, apportioned according to the 2000 United States census .