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Allred received a recess appointment to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas on July 11, 1938, but he declined the appointment. [3] He was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 5, 1939, to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, to a new seat authorized by 52 Stat. 584.
The Marine Corps League is the only congressionally chartered United States Marine Corps-related veterans organization in the United States.Its congressional charter was approved by the 75th U.S. Congress and signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 4, 1937.
Roosevelt defeated Hoover in Texas by a landslide margin of 76.71%. In this era, Texas was a one-party Solid South state dominated by the Democratic Party, but Roosevelt's performance was overwhelming even relative to the many prior Democratic landslides, and remains the largest blowout victory by any presidential nominee in the state ...
John Nance Garner III (November 22, 1868 – November 7, 1967), known among his contemporaries as "Cactus Jack", was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 32nd vice president of the United States from 1933 to 1941 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
USS Houston (CL/CA-30), was a Northampton-class cruiser of the United States Navy.She was the second Navy ship to bear the name "Houston". She was launched by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, on 7 September 1929, sponsored by Elizabeth Holcombe (daughter of Oscar Holcombe, then-mayor of Houston, Texas), and commissioned on 17 June 1930.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, to businessman James Roosevelt I and his second wife, Sara Ann Delano. His parents, who were sixth cousins, [ 3 ] came from wealthy, established New York families—the Roosevelts , the Aspinwalls and the Delanos , respectively—and resided at Springwood , a large ...
The core of the Miller Center's facilities is the historic Faulkner House, built in 1856 and named for novelist William Faulkner, the university's writer-in-residence in 1957. Faulkner House was the home of United States senator Thomas S. Martin , who represented Virginia in the U.S. Senate from 1895 to 1919 and served as majority leader .
Franklin D. Roosevelt: January 30, 1882 (age 50) Hyde Park, New York: 44th Governor of New York (1929–1932) New York: 666.25 945: Al Smith : December 30, 1873 (age 58) Manhattan, New York: 42nd Governor of New York (1919–1920, 1923–1928) New York: 201.75 190.25 John Nance Garner: November 22, 1868 (age 63) Detroit, Texas: 39th Speaker of the