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Over $400,000 in advertisements were purchased by business leaders to ensure that Houston would not become a "gay mecca." This opposition was led by former mayor and Houston Chamber of Commerce president Louie Welch. [4] In 2019, the Greater Houston Partnership called for the Texas Education Agency to assign a board of managers to run HISD. [5]
Edna is a city and the county seat of Jackson County, Texas, United States. The population was 5,499 at the 2010 census [4] and 5,987 at the 2020 census. [5] Edna is the gateway to 11,000-acre (45 km 2) Lake Texana, which covers the site of Texana, Texas. Edna has a hospital, convalescent home, library, museum, city park with swimming pool ...
470 [1] Website. www.uschamber.com. The United States Chamber of Commerce (USCC) is a business association advocacy group. It is the largest lobbying group in the United States. The group was founded in April 1912 out of local chambers of commerce at the urging of President William Howard Taft and his Secretary of Commerce and Labor Charles ...
The West Texas Chamber of Commerce was founded in Fort Worth, Texas in December 1918. [1] Its first convention took place in Mineral Wells, Texas in 1919. [1] Its first chairman was Colonel Cornelius T. Herring, a rancher, banker and hotelier. [1] It published West Texas Today.
Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. (February 11, 1921 – May 23, 2006) was an American politician who was a four-term United States Senator (1971–1993) from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for vice president in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket.
The Committee on Energy and Commerce is one of the oldest standing committees of the United States House of Representatives. Established in 1795, it has operated continuously—with various name changes and jurisdictional changes—for more than 200 years. The two other House standing committees with such continuous operation are the House Ways ...
The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Edna, Texas. Pages in category "People from Edna, Texas" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Brackenridge Recreation Complex is a park operated by the Lavaca-Navidad River Authority. The park is a former state park in Texas then known as Lake Texana State Park and is located near Edna in Jackson County, halfway between Houston and Corpus Christi on Lake Texana. The park was acquired by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department under a 50 ...