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Two Women Governors in 1925 Highlight Wyoming and Texas
A columnist contrasts Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming and Miriam Ferguson of Texas as the first female governors. It covers Ross winning amid a Democratic shift after her husband’s death and Ferguson’s anti klan campaign defeating Felix D more than a hundred thousand votes in a Texas run off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferguson
Judge
John Dickinson Sherman Elp
Noah Webster
Wyoming
Nellie ‘Tayloe Ross
Tayloe
William B. Ross
Texas
Miriam Amanda Ferguson
Lawrence
James E. Ferguson
Nleal
Bonnet Beats Hood
Ma’ Ferguson
Nell
Nellie Tayloe
St. Joseph
Omaha
Cheyenne
Ross
New York
Rogs
Tion
Eugene J. Sullivan
Ma” Ferguson
Miriam Amanda Wallace
Bell County
Baylor College
James Edward Ferguson
Pacific Coast
Rocky Mountains
Belton
Temple
Miriam Aimanda Wallace
Temple State Bank
Mason
Woodman
K. of P
Elk
American Party
United States
Earl B. Manyfield
State Supreme Court
Heman
University of Texas
Nolle
Ferguson Forum
Felix D. Robertson
Ernest Nalle
Austin
Hfe
State of
Senate
People of Texas
Maa
Kim
Felix D
Jim
Hell
Haw River
Christ
Earth