When was miriam ferguson elected

The Miriam A. Ferguson Collection at the Bell County Museum includes photographs, clothing, correspondence, housewares, and furniture. The Museum also keeps almost five hundred issues of the Ferguson Forum , a weekly newspaper James Ferguson published in Temple, Dallas, and Austin to generate funding for his and Miriam's political campaigns.

The paper was published until Anders, Evan. Austin: University of Texas Press, Brown, Norman D. Gould, Lewis L. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, Green, George N. Many women were furious at Jim's plan to govern over his wife's shoulder, but the unusual plan worked.

At the age of 49, "Ma" Ferguson became Texas Governor. Charges of corruption plagued Miriam's first term, and she lost a re-election bid. Six years later, Miriam ran again, this time successfully, returning to the Governor's mansion for a second term. With strong support from progressive and anti-Prohibition forces, "Farmer Jim" was elected governor of Texas in He was reelected in but the following year was impeached on grounds of misusing public funds and removed from office.

The conviction forbade Ferguson to hold "any office of honor, trust, or profit" in Texas. In order to keep Ferguson's name in the public spotlight, the Fergusons began to publish a weekly political newspaper, the Ferguson Forum. Ferguson's impeachment decree did not apply to federal offices, and in Ferguson ran for the U.

Senate as an opponent of Prohibition and the Ku Klux Klan. He was supported by many rural Populist voters and by enemies of the Klan, but lost to Klan member Earle Mayfield. Arguing that his impeachment was invalid, Ferguson attempted to run for governor in the Democratic primary.

She then defeated the Republican nominee, Orville Bullington, in November to secure her second term as governor. Her second administration did not engender as much controversy as the first, despite dire predictions to the contrary by her political opponents. The fiscally conservative governor held the line on state expenditures and even advocated a state sales tax and corporate income tax, although the state legislature did not act on these proposals.

Ferguson continued her liberal pardoning and parole policies, but even that action did not stir as much controversy as in her first administration since every convict paroled or pardoned represented that much less fiscal strain on the state during the depression. Ferguson In the Fergusons temporarily retired from direct involvement in politics and also refused to seek office in and However, Ma Ferguson did declare for governor once again in Although sixty-five years old, she alleged that she could not resist a "popular draft" for the nomination and joined a field of prominent Democrats that included incumbent governor W.

Lee O'Daniel. Ma's platform advocated a 25 percent cut in state appropriations, a gross-receipts tax of.