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 [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
From the Austin American-Statesman: “More women than men were left standing after the war and pandemic in 1918. (Image from the Library of Congress via the New York Times) As Texas women [...]
Image from the San Antonio Express Lila Cockrell was the first woman mayor of San Antonio. At the time of her first election, she was also the only woman in the U.S. to serve as mayor of a major [...]
MOVE (“Mobilize, Organize, Vote, Empower”) Texas is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, grassroots organization working to increase access in underrepresented youth communities through civic education, [...]
