1925 newspaper 1st FEMALE TEXAS GOVERNOR MA FERGUSON INAUGURATED Women's Rights

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1925 newspaper with a front-page bold headline report and historic photo announcing that
'MA' FERGUSON
is INAUGURATED as the 1st FEMALE TEXAS GOVERNOR Womens Rights -
inv # 1Z-202
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Bridgeport Star
(CT) dated January 20, 1925 with spectacular TEXAS and Womens Rights history!!
After her husband's impeachment and conviction, Ma Ferguson sought the Democratic nomination for governor and was elected to office. During her campaign, she made it clear she was a puppet candidate with her husband James E. Ferguson as the real voice; at rallies, her speaking was limited to introducing him before letting him have the platform. She told voters that she would follow the advice of her husband and that Texas would get "two governors for the price of one." A common campaign slogan was, "Me for Ma, and I Ain't Got a Durned Thing Against Pa."
After her victory in the Democratic primary, she defeated George C. Butte, a prominent lawyer and University of Texas dean who emerged as the strongest Republican gubernatorial nominee in Texas since Reconstruction in 1869. The widespread corruption of her husband's term led thousands of voters to cross party lines in the general election; where Republican candidates usually grabbed between 11,000 and 30,000 votes, Butte came out with almost 300,000 votes, many of them women and suffragists. Ferguson received 422,563 votes (58.9 percent) to Butte's 294,920 (41.1 percent). Butte had been supported by former Governor William P. Hobby, who had succeeded James Ferguson in 1917. Ma Ferguson was the second female state governor in the United States, and the first to be elected in a general election. Just two weeks before her inauguration, Nellie Tayloe Ross had been sworn in as governor of Wyoming to finish the unexpired term of her late husband.
In 1924, Ma Ferguson was elected governor, becoming the first female chief executive of Texas.
Ferguson was elected with the help and support of her campaign manager, Homer T. Brannon of Fort Worth, Texas.
In 1926, attorney general Dan Moody, who had investigated her husband for embezzlement and recovered million for Texas citizens, ran against her in a run-off election and defeated her to become the next and youngest governor of Texas. Suffragist activism provided a major contribution to her defeat as they rallied behind Moody and campaigned for him.
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