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Image from The Portal to Texas History, courtesy of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center of the Houston Public Library. Born: 1925 (Nordheim, TX) Died: 2002  (Crystal City, TX) Noted For: [...]

Passed in 1905, the Terrell Law created a statewide direct-primary system for all state, district, and county elective offices in Texas. The provisions of Terrell legalized and encouraged the [...]

Image from Wikipedia/State Bar of Texas Born: 1896 (Baltimore) Died: 1985 (Dallas) Noted For: Sarah Tilghman Hughes was a politician and judge who is the only woman in U.S. history (to date as of [...]

Oveta Culp Hobby (right). Image from the New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Born: 1905 (Killeen) Died: 1995 (Houston) Noted For: Oveta Culp Hobby was a civil [...]

Image from the Texas House of Representatives. Born: 1931 (Kingsville) Died: 2003 (Austin) Noted For: Irma Rangel was an educator and lawyer noted as the first Mexican American woman elected to [...]

Born: 1881 (Black River Falls, Wisconsin) Died: 1968 (Houston, TX) Noted For: Helen Edmunds Moore is remembered as one of the first women to serve in the Texas House of Representatives and [...]

Barbara Jordan was a trailblazing legislator, gifted orator, and legendary stateswoman. Image from the U.S. News & World Report Collection at the Library of Congress. Barbara Charline Jordan [...]

Image from Penn State University Libraries Born: 1949 (New Orleans) Died: 2008 (Houston) Noted For: Anne Legendre Armstrong was a diplomat and politician who was the first woman to deliver a [...]

Image from the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame Born: 1938 (in Canutillo, TX) Noted For: Alicia Rosencrans Chacón is noted as the first Mexican-American woman to be elected to the El Paso City Council [...]

The Texas Association of Women’s Clubs Founded: In 1905 as the Texas Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs. In 1906, they affiliated with the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, [...]