Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold
Image from the Legislative Reference Library Born: 1926 (in Corpus Christi) Noted For: Frances “Sissy” Tarlton Farenthold is noted as a former Texas legislator, a two-time candidate for Texas [...]
Resources for Texas Voters
Image from the League of Women Voters Education Fund website VOTE411 Sponsored by the League of Women Voters Education Fund, VOTE411 is “committed to ensuring voters have the information they [...]
Celebrating the 19th Amendment in the News
Minnie Fisher Cunningham, a leader in the Texas suffrage movement, campaigning for the U.S. Senate in 1927. Image from the Austin Public Library. “How Texas Women Delivered the 19th Amendment” [...]
Lera Millard Thomas
Image from Wikipedia Early in her legislative career, U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson was frequently obliged to correct people who referred to her as the “second woman in Texas” (after Barbara [...]
IGNITE in Texas
Image from the IGNITE-Texas website. IGNITE is a California-based non-profit, non-partisan organization that inspires and trains young women to become political leaders, working primarily through [...]
The Texas All-Woman Supreme Court
Image from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. It was late 1924, and Texas governor Pat M. Neff had a problem. A land ownership dispute involving the Woodmen of the World, an [...]
The Year(s) of the Woman
Image from the U.S. House of Representatives (History, Art, & Archives) In 1992, U.S. voters elected more new women to Congress than had ever previously been elected at once, thus leading to [...]