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As William J. Chriss, author of “Six Constitutions Over Texas, Texas’ Political Identity, 1830-1900” (Texas A&M University Press) notes in his sweeping look at the six documents that formed ...
Constitution of Texas (2022) at Wikisource. The Constitution of the State of Texas is the document that establishes the structure and function of the government of the U.S. state of Texas, and enumerates the basic rights of the citizens of Texas. The current document was adopted on February 15, 1876, and is the seventh constitution in Texas ...
Christi Craddick is the only woman currently serving in Texas executive office outside the State Board of Education. She has served as Railroad Commissioner from 2013 to the present. Texas has had only two female governors in its history. Miriam Ferguson (Democrat) became the state's first female governor in 1924.
The women won, and Newsweek agreed to allow women to be reporters. [116] The day the claim was filed, Newsweek's cover article was "Women in Revolt", covering the feminist movement; the article was written by a woman who had been hired on a freelance basis since there were no female reporters at the magazine. [117]
Women's suffrage efforts in Texas began in 1868 at the first Texas Constitutional Convention. In both Constitutional Conventions and subsequent legislative sessions, efforts to provide women the right to vote were introduced, only to be defeated. Early Texas suffragists such as Martha Goodwin Tunstall and Mariana Thompson Folsom worked with ...
Her next book is about women, religion and conservative politics in the U.S. from 1970 to present. Made by History takes readers beyond the headlines with articles written and edited by ...
Women's suffrage was brought up in Texas at the first state constitutional convention, which began in 1868. However, there was a lack of support for the proposal at the time to enfranchise women. Women continued to fight for the right to vote in the state. In 1918, women gained the right to vote in Texas primary elections.
Furthermore, women were gaining more power in Texas politics throughout the decade; the state's first female governor, Miriam A. Ferguson, was scheduled to be inaugurated later in the month, and it was seven years both since Texas women had gained suffrage and since the first woman, Annie Webb Blanton, was elected to statewide office.