by David Nordyke | Oct 7, 2020 | Count Her In
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 governor, a vice-presidential nominee, and the first chair of the National...
by David Nordyke | Oct 7, 2020 | Count Her In
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 need to successfully participate in every election. Whether it’s...
by David Nordyke | Oct 7, 2020 | Count Her In
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” From the Texas Observer “An upcoming documentary and book mark the suffrage...
by David Nordyke | Oct 7, 2020 | Count Her In
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 Jordan) to be elected to Congress. That’s because she wasn’t the second,...
by David Nordyke | Oct 7, 2020 | Count Her In
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 K-12 and college curriculum programs, scholarships, conferences, and...
by David Nordyke | Oct 7, 2020 | Count Her In
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 influential men’s fraternal organization, had reached the state supreme court,...
