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Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) was a state agency that supported the state's elderly and disabled population. The agency maintained its headquarters in the John H. Winters Human Services Center at 701 West 51st Street in Austin .
Dads Corner, also spelled Dad's Corner, is an unincorporated community in Archer County, in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas , its population was 20 in the mid-1960s. It is located within the Wichita Falls metropolitan area.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is an agency within the Texas Health and Human Services System. It was established by House Bill 2292 in 2003 during the 78th Legislature, [ 1 ] which consolidated twelve different healthcare agencies into five entities under the oversight of HHSC.
Matthew McDade Phelan (born September 18, 1975) is an American real estate developer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he serves in Texas House of Representatives representing District 21, which includes most of Jefferson and all of Orange and Jasper counties in the southeast corner of the state.
Columbus Marion Joiner, nicknamed Dad Joiner (March 12, 1860 – March 27, 1947), was an American politician oilman who at the age of seventy drilled the discovery well of the East Texas Oil Field of the 1930s. [1] Newspaper articles referred to Joiner as the Daddy of the Rusk County Oil Field. [2]: 6, 70, 288
In the United States, Dodd used the "Fathers' Day" spelling on her original petition for the holiday, [3] but the spelling "Father's Day" was already used in 1913 when a bill was introduced to the U.S. Congress as the first attempt to establish the holiday, [15] and it was still spelled the same way when its creator was commended in 2008 by the U.S. Congress.
Defiant Dads: Fathers' Rights Activists in America. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-4690-0. Crowley, Jocelyn E. (2003). The Politics of Child Support in America. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-53511-3. Parke, RD; Brott, AA (1999). Throwaway Dads: The Myths and Barriers that Keep Men from Being the Fathers They Want to Be ...
Texas joined the newly created Confederate States of America on March 4, 1861, ratifying the permanent C.S. Constitution on March 23. [1] [104] Not all Texans favored secession initially, although many of the same would later support the Southern cause. Texas's most notable Unionist was the state governor, Sam Houston. Not wanting to aggravate ...