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Albert Thomas papers

1937-1965

https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00022/rice-00022.html

This collection of speeches, correspondences, reports, and photographs documents the work of Albert Thomas, U.S. Representative for Harris County, Texas, from 1936-1966. Albert Thomas was the first Rice Alumnus to serve in Congress. He graduated from Rice Institute in 1920.

8 Linear Feet (21 Boxes)

eng, Latn

Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Thomas, Lera Millard, 1900-1993

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Lera Millard Thomas (August 3, 1900 – July 23, 1993) was an American politician who served as U.S. Representative in Congress representing the Eighth District of Texas from 1966 to 1967, after the death of her husband, Congressman Albert Thomas. She was the first woman to represent Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives. After leaving Congress, she founded Millard's Crossing Historic Village. Born Lera Millard in Nacogdoches, Texas, she attended Brenau College in Gainesville, Georgia, and...