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Ivins was born in Monterey, California, and raised in Houston, Texas.Her father, James Ivins, known as "General Jim" because of his rigid authoritarianism (or sometimes "Admiral Jim" for his love of sailing), was an oil and gas executive, and the family lived in Houston's affluent River Oaks neighborhood. [2]
Kaushik Basu (born 1952), Indian economist and academic, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank; Ratan Lal Basu (born 1948), Indian economist; Ravi Batra (born 1943), American economist, author and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas; Peter Thomas Bauer (1915–2002), Hungarian developmental economist
Hetty Green's $500,000 represented one-quarter of the bank's assets. The bank refused to allow her to transfer her $26 million in stocks, bonds, mortgages, and deeds to the Chemical National Bank until Edward's debt was paid. In the end, Hetty made the transfer and paid off her husband's debt, but never forgave Edward. [7]: 148–151
John T. Montford (born 1943), businessman and former member of the Texas Senate "Pappy" O'Daniel (1890–1969), Governor of Texas, U.S. Senator and radio personality; Bill Owens (born 1950), former Governor of Colorado (1999–2007) Hugh Parmer (1939–2020), mayor of Fort Worth 1977 to 1979; member of both houses of Texas State Legislature
Miriam "Ma" Ferguson (1875–1961), first female Governor of Texas; Mindy Finn (born 1980), media strategist, conservative feminist activist, independent U.S. vice presidential candidate in 2016; Charles R. Floyd (1881–1945), Texas state senator, State Representative, and co-founder of Paris Junior College
Jennifer Scanlon, a professor of gender, sexuality and women's studies at Bowdoin College who wrote a biography on Hedgeman, said she "by all accounts, should be a household name." “Often a woman among men, a black person among whites and a secular Christian among clergy, she lived and breathed the intersections that made her life so vital ...
Furthermore, it was a Latina who helped farmworkers receive U.S. labor rights, a Latina who was the first female Surgeon General and a Latina who is one of the all-time greatest female golfers.
The Texas Women's Hall of Fame was established in 1984 by the Governor's Commission on Women. The honorees are selected biennially from submissions from the public. The honorees must be either native Texans or a resident of Texas at the time of the nomination. [1]