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One of the most active leaders in the anti-suffrage movement in Texas was Pauline Kleiber Wells who was from Brownsville, Texas. [40] Pauline Wells was married to a powerful Democratic Party "boss," James B. Wells, Jr. [40] Pauline Wells began to campaign against women's suffrage in Texas in 1912. [40]
Texas women march for women's suffrage in Washington, D.C., on April 7, 1913. 1911. State representative, Jess Alexander Baker, introduces a suffrage amendment to the Texas Constitution in the Thirty-second Legislature. [14] Jovita Idar begins to write pro-suffrage articles in her family's Spanish language newspaper, La Cronica. [19] 1912
The Republic of Texas had formed in 1836, after breaking away from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. The following year, an ambassador from Texas approached the United States about the possibility of becoming an American state. Fearing a war with Mexico, which did not recognize Texas independence, the United States declined the offer. [1]
In 1821, the Mexican War for Independence severed the control that Spain had exercised on its North American territories, and the new country of Mexico was formed from much of the lands that had comprised New Spain, including Spanish Texas. [83] The 1824 Constitution of Mexico joined Texas with Coahuila to form the state of Coahuila y Tejas. [84]
1890: The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Its first president is Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The focus turns to working at the state level. Wyoming renewed general women's suffrage, becoming the first state to allow women to vote. [6] [3] [8]
Texas is combined with the province of Coahuila to form the new province Coahuila y Tejas. 1825: Green DeWitt establishes a new colony in Texas, west of Austin's. Haden Edwards establishes a colony in Texas, east of Austin's. Martín De León establishes a colony in Texas, south of Austin's. 1826
First mapped by Spain in 1519, for over 300 years Texas was part of the vast Spanish Empire seized by the Spanish conquistadores from its indigenous people. [1] The US-Spain border along the northern frontier of Texas took shape in the 1817–1819 negotiations between Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and the Spanish ambassador to the United ...
Women in Texas did not have any voting rights when Texas was a republic (1836-1846) or after it became a state in 1846. [394] Suffrage for Texas women was first raised at the Constitutional Convention of 1868-1869 when Republican Titus H. Mundine of Burleson County proposed that the vote be given to all qualified persons regardless of gender. [394]