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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 ...
Timeline of women's suffrage in Texas. Travis County women register to vote in the Texas primary election in July 1918. This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Texas. 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 ...
A total of 179 women have been elected to the Texas Legislature. One hundred sixty-one women have been elected to the Texas House of Representatives, and 23 women have been elected to the Texas Senate. [9] The first woman elected to the Texas legislature was Edith Wilmans. Wilmans represented District 50 ( Dallas County) in the Texas House for ...
Women who sued Texas after being denied abortions say reproductive rights are their top election issue Laura Jarrett and Elysee Barakett Updated June 24, 2024 at 11:02 PM
The 1948 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 2, 1948. After the inconclusive Democratic Party primary in July, a hotly contested [2] runoff was held in August in which U.S. Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson was officially declared to have defeated former Texas governor Coke R. Stevenson for the party's nomination by eighty ...
Judith Pappas Zaffirini (born February 13, 1946) is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the Texas State Senate from the 21st District, which includes her home city of Laredo in south Texas . Zaffririni is the first female dean of the Texas Senate. [1] Zaffirini has been named among the "Top 100 Most Influential Hispanics in ...
Growth and women’s reproductive rights. What to know about Georgetown’s state senate race. Ben Morse. June 8, 2024 at 3:00 AM. JASON LEE. Georgetown, Kingstree, Andrews and Lake City voters go ...
The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday to allow the state’s ban on nearly all gender-affirming care for minors to remain in effect.. In an 8-1 decision, the all-Republican court overturned a lower ...