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Texas's 18th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives includes much of inner city Houston and the surrounding area. It has been the Downtown Houston district since 1972. The district is currently represented by Democrat Sylvester Turner.
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Texas.For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Texas.
New York 18: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Democratic 1944: Incumbent excluded from the 90th Congress on February 28, 1967. Incumbent re-elected April 11, 1967.
Parthenia Outley was married to David Outley whom both were born in 1886. Parthenia died in 1967,and David passed away in 1981.He was the first African American educator in Alief as he created the one room schoolhouse aforementioned.David E. Outley has a school named in his honor in Alief located at 12355 Richmond Ave., Houston, TX 77082.
Braniff International Airways Flight 352 was a scheduled domestic flight from William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas, United States, to Dallas Love Field in Dallas; on May 3, 1968, a Lockheed L-188A Electra flying on the route, registration N9707C, broke up in midair and crashed near Dawson, Texas, after flying into a severe thunderstorm.
The City of Houston abolished the ward system in the early 1900s. [8] In 1902, at the beginning of O.T. Hold 's term as Mayor of Houston , the city's financial records were in poor shape, and independent auditors found that the city's coffers had a shortage of over $54,000 for the period 1899 to 1902.
Alief Elsik High School is a high school in the Alief region of Houston, Texas, United States.. Elsik is divided into two campuses: the main campus (12601 High Star in Houston, zip code 77072), and the Alief Elsik Ninth Grade Center (located at 6767 South Dairy Ashford, city of Houston, 77072), which serves ninth graders.
Two HISD zoned high schools, Northside (formerly Jefferson Davis) and Sam Houston, are in the Northside. [24] [25] Zoned high schools serving additional portions of the Northside include Heights (formerly John H. Reagan), [26] Kashmere, [27] and Washington. [28] North Houston Early College High School is an optional school in the Northside. [29]