Texas Bluebonnet Girls StateRecords 1942-2010

Bridges, Connie.

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American Legion. Auxiliary. Dept. of Texas.

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In 1919, the American Legion Auxiliary (ALA) was established as a civilian association for women to support the American Legion, a U.S. military veterans organization founded by men who served during World War I. The Auxiliary's constitution set forth its goals: to help veterans and American youth, to defend the U.S. Constitution and democracy, to promote nationalism and community involvement, and to support peace and justice. In 1921, the official memorial flower of the...

Texas Bluebonnet Girls State

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Sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary Department of Texas, Bluebonnet Girls State aims to educate high-school age girls in the rights and responsibilities of American citizenship. In annual weeklong sessions, participants, or “citizens,” organize their own city, county, and state governments, conducting elections, introducing and debating bills in a mock legislature, and learning the duties of government offices. Two girls are selected annually to attend Girls Nation in Washing...

Girls State. Texas.

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Goff, Frances, 1916-1994

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Frances Goff of Kenedy, Texas, began her career in 1937 as secretary to a Texas state legislator, became secretary to Governor W. Lee O'Daniel after his re-election in 1940, worked for the House Appropriations Committee in 1941, and was appointed the first personnel director of the Texas Railroad Commission. In 1944 she enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps, rising to the rank of sergeant major before her release and return to Austin in 1946, when she was named State Budget Director and a...

Trahan, Mary Ellen.

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