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Jane Yelvington McCallum (December 30, 1877 – August 14, 1957) was an American politician and author, a women's suffrage and Prohibition activist, and the longest-serving Secretary of State of Texas. [1]
Florence Bates (1914): [8] One of the first female lawyers in Texas. She would leave the profession and become a Hollywood actress later in life. Beverly Tarpley (1952): [9] [10] [11] First female lawyer in Texas to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court; Charlye O. Farris (1953): [12] First African American female lawyer in Texas
After the Texas primary in 1918, women became more politically active and started attending party conventions. [72] In August 1918, 233 different Democratic county conventions chose to support women's suffrage in Texas. [72] Cunningham began to lobby the United States Congress on a federal suffrage amendment.
We should see more women running for office and winning. Texas women are active politically. They vote. In the 2020 presidential election, 6.3 million Texas women voted, compared with 5.6 million men.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, a Democrat who has built a rising national profile as the leader of Texas' largest county, announced Monday that she was taking a temporary leave of absence for ...
All had joined in ruling that Paxton, primarily a civil lawyer under the Texas Constitution, could not prosecute local criminal cases of election fraud. (A woman will remain in Hervey’s seat.
Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator, [1] and politician.A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, [2] the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives, [3] [4] and one of the first two African Americans elected to the U.S. House ...
Texas: The Marital Property Act of 1967, which gave married women the same property rights as their husbands, goes into effect on January 1. [110] Mississippi: On June 15 a law making women eligible to serve on state court juries is signed by Governor John Bell Williams. Mississippi was the last state in America to allow this. [111]