Richard Coke Richard Coke, a former United States senator and Texas governor, was born on March 13, 1829, in Williamsburg, Virginia, He went to William and Mary College and graduated July 1848 with a degree in law. In 1850 he moved to Waco Texas, where he became a very good lawyer in both criminal and civil cases. Then in 1852 he married Mary Evans Horne. They had two daughters who died when they were babies, and two sons, who both died before the age of thirty. In September 1865 Coke was chosen as judge of the Nineteenth Judicial District by Governor A. J. Hamilton, who liked Coke's integrity in spite of their political differences. Coke was then elected as associate justice of the state Supreme Court in 1866 but was removed in 1877 by Philip …show more content…
He ignored threats of physical violence when he rejected a popular bill that gives money to the International-Great Northern Railroad. The new governor was loaded with job applications, requests for six-gun permits and for reward money to aid in the capture of criminals. Under the Constitution of 1876, Coke served on a three-member board that managed a new, decentralized system of public education. Vocational education profite from the opening of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (Texas A&M University), at which Coke said a significant speech. He was elected governor again and beat William Chambers, the candidate for the republicans. He was elected to the United States Senate in May 1876 and quit being a governor in December. He began his first term as senator on March 4, 1877, replacing Morgan C. …show more content…
He spoke as a strong rival of prohibition throughout the state. In 1892 he traveled home to support the reelection of Governor James Hogg over George Clark, Coke's former campaign manager. Coke was reelected to the Senate in January 1883 and again in January 1889, both times by unanimous vote in the legislature. In 1894 he announced that he would not want to work another term. In spring of 1897 he suffered from exposure while caring for his flooded Brazos valley farm and was sick for three weeks. He died at his home in Waco on May 14. After a state funeral, he was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Waco. Coke was hard to miss; he was a white-bearded man who was six feet, three inches and weighed 240 pounds. It is said that he could bellow "like a prairie bull." When speaking about politics. His Senate speeches, while sometimes boring, were well-organized, full of facts and persuasive. He is considered one of the important leaders in Texas in the late nineteenth
As the Reconstruction Era ended, the United States became the up and coming world power. The Spanish-American war was in full swing, and the First World War was well on its way. As a result of the open-door policy, England, Germany, France, Russia, and eventually Japan experienced rapid industrial growth; the United States decided to pursue a foreign policy because of both self- interest and idealism. According to the documents, Economic self- interest, rather than idealism was more significant in driving American foreign policy from 1895 to 1920 because the United States wanted to protect their foreign trade, property and their access to recourses. While the documents also show that Nationalistic thought (idealism) was also crucial in driving American foreign policy, economic Self- interest prevailed.
In America the Great Depression hit hard especially in the 1930’s. People lost their jobs and then their homes. When the depression hit everyone blamed President Hoover for all of the homelessness. Hoovervilles are an important part of history; some important things about hoovervilles are how they started and who it involved.
the academic life so he quit to write full time. Kinsella was married to Mildred Clay from
After the Second World War, the world was more interesting in oil than ever before. The conflict itself made the countries of the world realize that oil was a serious factor in the quest for power. From this point in history, oil was considered the driving force behind a successful economy and therefore attaining power. Therefore the quest for oil heightened during and after World War II. In the effort to acquire more oil, many countries began to seek out additional locations to drill and this drove the United States to the Middle East. In late 1943 a man named DeGolyer who was a geologist went on a mission to Saudi Arabia to survey the possibility for oil. His mission there concluded that “the oil in this region is the greatest single prize in all history”. With such a conclusion it is not surprising that the United States began extremely concerned with the oil concessions there.
A series of measures took the nation off the gold standard, thereby offering some assistance to debtors and exporters. He also got Congress to appropriate $500 million in federal relief grants to states and local...
Jim Lewis was born on March 3rd, 1910 in McKinney, Texas. He was the middle child of three, with Jim and Laura Lewis as his parents . He was in the Texas National Guard, before he volunteered to go into World War 2, at the age of 35. He was too old to be drafted, but after Pearl Harbor, he felt the need to serve his country the best he could. Lewis married Catherine Harkey after the war, and had four children. He worked for City Chevrolet for most of his life after the war as a car mechanic and later a security guard. After Catherine died, he was remarried for a few years until he died of testicular cancer, leaving behind all four children, nine grandchildren, and four great grandchildren .
He then became Governor in 1882 and was a huge success because of his reputation
Wallace entered the governor's race in 1958. Patterson ran on the Ku Klux Klan ticket; Wallace refused it. The NAACP endorsed Wallace for governor. Wallace lost the g...
John Tyler was the tenth president of the United States of America. He was born on March 29, 1790 in Charles City County, Virginia. He graduated college in 1807 from College of William and Mary and his belief was Episcopalian. He married on March 29 1813 to Latina Christian and then remarried after she passed away in 1844 to Julia Gardiner. He was vice president from 1840 to 1841 when his successor died and he became president from 1841 to 1845. He was jokingly called “His Accidence” because he was the first vice President to take office of President by the death of his predecessor.
John Tyler was born on March 29, 1790 at Greenway Plantation, in Charles City County, Virginia. (Ed. Kelle S. Sisung and Gerda-Ann Raffaelle and from Encyclopedia of World Biography). He was the first president born after the Ratification of the Constitution. As well as being the second born out of eight children, he had five sisters and two brothers. (Donna Batten 144). He practiced the religion of Episcopalian throughout his life. ((Ed. Kelle S. Sisung and Gerda-Ann Raffaelle)
Despite working on a farm his entire life Lincoln always had an interest in law and politics. He agreed with the whig party. In 1834 he was elected to the Illinois State Legislature. Lincoln continued his with interest in law and in 1836 he passed h...
...on one candidate Calvin Coolidge won the election. Prohibition began faltering in the mid-1920s as bootlegging spread greatly across the nation. The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, which was backed by liquor and brewing supporters, was the strongest lobbying force to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment. By 1923, the consumption of alcohol rose to over a gallon per person and in 1927 reached almost one and one-fourth gallons per capita. The majority of Americans did not agree with Prohibition and sought for an outright appeal to the Eighteenth Amendment as the 1928 election approached. Prohibition did not official end until December 5, 1933 when the 21st Amendment was ratified repealing the 18th Amendment. The 21st Amendment allowed for alcoholic beverages with a content of 3.2 percent alcohol could be bought and sold once again in the United States.
Among the other candidates, Lincoln was given permission to put in his name to apply for legislature. Only 10 days before the election, the soldiers came Sangamon County. (Leland pg.40). Receiving the most tickets, for the second time Lincoln became a good candidate in1834 (Leland, pg.44). Lincoln became depressed after a young girl that he like died in 1835 but then got some excitement when he was elected for legislature. During his time on legislature, ...
Jefferson Davis (1808-89), first and only president of the Confederate States of America (1861-65). Davis was born on June 3, 1808, in Christian (now Todd) County, Kentucky, and educated at Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, and at the U.S. Military Academy. After his graduation in 1828, he saw frontier service until ill health forced his resignation from the army in 1835. He was a planter in Mississippi from 1835 to 1845, when he was elected to the U.S. Congress. In 1846 he resigned his seat in order to serve in the Mexican War and fought at Monterrey and Buena Vista, where he was wounded. He was U.S. senator from Mississippi from 1847 to 1851, secretary of war in the cabinet of President Franklin Pierce from 1853 to 1857, and again U.S. senator from 1857 to 1861. As a senator he often stated his support of slavery and of states' rights, and as a cabinet member he influenced Pierce to sign the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which favored the South and increased the bitterness of the struggle over slavery. In his second term as senator he became t...
Daley held several elected posts before becoming mayor. He was state representative from 1936 to 1938, state senator from 1939 to 1946, county deputy controller from 1946 to 1949, and county clerk from 1950 to 1955. He also served as state revenue director, an appointed position, under Governor Adlai Stevenson. In these positions, Daley gained a keen understanding of government and a mastery of budgets and revenue sources.