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- December 29, 1845
- After
ten years of Texas
independence, Texas became the 28th state admitted to
the Union.
Area - 267,277 sq.
miles Capital -
Austin
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Motto - Friendship
Nickname - Lone Star State
- The Texas Declaration of Independence was signed at the
Convention of 1836 to form the Republic of Texas.
- 1836 - Sam
Carson loses by six votes of becoming the president of Texas.
- 1836 Sam
Houston is inaugurated President of the Republic.
- Davy Crockett in 1836 will die with all 130 other men at the
Alamo.
- In 1839 the Texas Congress first meets at the frontier
site selected for the capital of the Republic, Austin.
- U. S. President James Polk signed legislation making
Texas the 28th state of the United States in1845.
- James Henderson serves only 28 days as governor in 1853.
Anson Jones, last president of the Republic of Texas, in 1858,
shoots himself.
- Texas seceded in 1861 following a 171 to 6 vote by the
Secession Convention. Governor Sam Houston was in the minority
who opposed secession.
- The United States Congress readmitted Texas into the
Union in 1870.
- Edmund Davis becomes
the first Republican governor of Texas in 1870.
- In 1874 Richard Coke began a Texas democratic party
dynasty, continuing unbroken for over 100 years.
- In 1875 Miriam Amanda
"Ma" Ferguson is born in Bell County. She becomes a
first lady once and governor twice.
- Dwight David Eisenhower is born in Denison, 1890.He
becomes the 34th U.S. President,
- 1891 brings the first native-born governor of Texas,
James Stephen Hogg.
- In
1902 the poll
tax becomes a requirement for voting.
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- 1903 John Nance Garner begins his first term in Congress.
30 years later he becomes the vice-president to FDR.
- born in Waco,in 1905, is Leon Jaworski. He becomes
president of the American Bar Association and the Watergate
chief prosecutor.
- For the first time IN 1906, Texans can vote for U.S.
senator (express their preference to the U.S. Senate democrats)
in the democratic primary.
- Lyndon B. Johnson is born in 1908 at Stonewall. He
becomes the 36th U.S. President.
- Col. Edward House of Houston meets Woodrow Wilson in
1911. He becomes the President's aide and confidant.
- The right to vote in primary elections is given to Texas
women in 1918.
- Annie Webb Blanton is elected State Superintendent of Public
Instruction in 1918 and becomes the first woman elected to a
statewide office.
- Gov. Jim Ferguson resigns in1917, after being impeached.
- Edith Wilmans is the first woman
elected to the Texas House in 1922.
- Miriam Ferguson of Texas Is elected in 1924 as one of the first woman
governors in the U.S.
- In 1925 Miriam Amanda "Ma" Ferguson becomes the
first woman governor in Texas history.
- 1928 sees the Democrats open their national convention in
Houston.
- W.E. Morris, in 1933, becomes the first Texas farmer to
be paid by the Government to plow his cotton crop under.
- Lyndon Johnson wins his first election in 1937.
- Andrew Jackson Houston, is appointed to serve out a term
in the U.S. Senate in1941. He is Sam Houston's youngest son,
- W. Lee O'Daniel resigns in 1941 to become a
senator. Coke Stevenson replaces him becoming the governor.
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- State treasurer Charlie Lockhart resigns in 1941, after
longtime tenure at the position.
- In 1948 Lyndon Johnson wins his senate race by 87 votes.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the first Texas-born
President of the United States in 1953.
- Texas women gain the right, in 1954, to serve on juries.
- John Tower becomes the first Republican U.S. Senator from
Texas since Reconstruction. when he wins a special election for
U.S. Senate.
- President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, in
1963.
- The
poll tax is abolished in 1964 by the 24th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution abolishes the poll tax as a requirement for voting
for federal offices. Texas, however, retains the poll tax for
state and local offices.
- The poll tax is repealed as a requirement for voting in
all elections in 1966, by amendment of the State Constitution.
- Barbara Jordan of Houston becomes the first black woman
elected to the Texas Senate in 1966.
- Martin Luther
King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
- Barbara Jordan (D-TX) becomes first Black woman elected to
Congress from a Southern state, in 1972.
- Congresswoman Barbara Jordan of Houston delivers her
famous "We, the People" speech in 1974, on the U.S.
Constitution and impeachment.
- Houston resident George Bush is elected president of the
United States In 1988.
- - - Democrat Ann Richards becomes the first woman governor of
Texas.
- In 1982 Lee P. Brown
is the first Black named police commissioner of Houston, Texas.
- Republican
Kay Bailey Hutchison,
in 1993,
becomes the first woman to serve as U.S. Senator from Texas.
One Vote Counts in Texas.
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