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Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Texas, ordered by year.Since its admission to statehood in 1845, Texas has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the 1864 election during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the 1868 election, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
First African-American elected governor of Massachusetts: Deval Patrick First African-American lieutenant governor of New York: David Paterson. 2007; First African-American appointed State Treasurer of New Jersey: Michellene Davis. 2008; First African-American woman elected Speaker of the California State Assembly: Karen Bass
Nat King Cole First African American to win a Tony Award: Juanita Hall (Best Featured Actress in a Musical, South Pacific) [193] First African American to win a Pulitzer Prize: Gwendolyn Brooks (book of poetry, Annie Allen, 1949) [194] Ralph Bunche First African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize: Ralph Bunche [195]
The first person of African heritage to arrive in Texas was Estevanico, who came to Texas in 1528. [4] The earliest black residents in Texas were Afro-Mexican slaves brought by the Spanish. [5] A large majority of Black Texans live in the Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio and Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan areas. [6]
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 has two uniform election dates, the first Saturday in May, and the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. [7] As of 2024, 99.5 percent of registered voters in Texas are in jurisdictions using voting methods with some form of auditable paper ballot, an established best practice for recounts and audits. [8]
The 1960 United States presidential election in Texas was held on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. The Democratic Party candidate John F. Kennedy , narrowly won the state of Texas with 50.52 percent of the vote to the Republican candidate Vice President Richard Nixon 's 48.52%, a margin of two percent ...
The 1944 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the 1944 United States presidential election. State voters chose 23 electors [ 1 ] to represent the state in the Electoral College , which chose the president and vice president .