Richter, Walter H. Papers 1936-1937,1963-2000

Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 1946-

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Clinton, Bill, 1946-

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González, Henry B. (Henry Barbosa), 1916-2000

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Henry Barbosa González (born Enrique Barbosa González; May 3, 1916 – November 28, 2000) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Texas's 20th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1961 to 1999. Born in San Antonio, Texas, he graduated from Jefferson High School there before earning an associate's degree from San Antonio College, attending the University of Texas at Austin, and earning a bachelor of laws degree (LL.B.) from the St....

Richards, Ann, 1933-2006

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Dorothy Ann Richards (née Willis; September 1, 1933 – September 13, 2006) was an American politician and 45th Governor of Texas (1991–95). A Democrat, she first came to national attention as the Texas State Treasurer, when she gave the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Richards was the second female governor of Texas and was frequently noted in the media for her outspoken feminism and her one-liners. Born in Lacy-Lakeview, Texas, Richards became a schoolteacher after...

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

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Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was born on August 27, 1908 at Stonewall, Texas. He was the first child of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson, and had three sisters and a brother: Rebekah, Josefa, Sam Houston, and Lucia. In 1913, the Johnson family moved to nearby Johnson City, named for Lyndon''s forebears, and Lyndon entered first grade. On May 24, 1924 he graduated from Johnson City High School. He decided to forego higher education and moved to California with a few ...

Gore, Al, 1948-

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Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Gore was Bill Clinton's running mate in their successful campaign in 1992, and the pair was re-elected in 1996. Near the end of Clinton's second term, Gore was selected as the Democratic nominee for the 2000 presidential election but lost the election in a very close race after a Florida recount. After his term as vice-president...

Smith, Preston

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Community Council of Austin and Travis County

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Texas. Economic Opportunity Division

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Prentice, George

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Texas State University

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Camp Swift, located on 55,906 acres in Bastrop County Texas, was built in 1942 and named after Eben Swift, a commander during World War I. Initially designed to accommodate 44,000 troops, during World War II the camp housed 90,000 troops. At one point it served as housing for 3,865 German prisoners of war. Upon the conclusion of the war much of the camp’s land was returned to its prior owners, but the government set aside 11,700 acres to be used as a military reservation. That land ...

University of Texas at Austin.

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The University of Texas at Austin (UT) opened in 1883 with eight professors, four assistants, a proctor, and 221 male and female students. The first set of graduates, consisting of thirteen law students, attended UT commencement on June 14, 1884. By World War I, enrollment rose to 2,254 and by World War II to over 11,000. African Americans were admitted in 1950, and by 1966, there were 27,345 students. Over the next 40 years, the university continued to expand. In 2009 e...

Bullock, Bob

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Richter, Dorothy

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Supple, Jerome H.

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Carter, Jimmy, 1924-

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Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr., was a farmer and businessman; his mother, Lillian Gordy, a registered nurse. He was educated in the Plains public schools, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a ...

Richter, Walther, 1916-2003

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Walter H. Richter (1916-2003) was a Texas senator; Travis County, Texas Democratic chairman; and journalist. Richter served as State senator from Gonzales, 1963-1965, before being appointed by Governor John Bowden Connally as Director of the Texas Office of Economic Opportunity. He had served in this position for one year when President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him Director of the Southwest Region Office of Economic Opportunity, spreading his domain beyond Texas to in...

Richter, Walter H.

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Politician and author Walter H. Richter (1916-2003) was born in Marble Falls, Texas and was educated in San Marcos and Austin. After graduating from Southwest Texas State College (now Texas State University) in 1938, Richter served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He married Dorothy Jean Sample, with whom he had two children. From 1939 to 1948, Richter was the Director of Journalism and Publications at Southwest Texas State College. He then served as publisher of the Stockdale ...

Southwest Texas State College

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Texas. Legislature. Senate

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Senator Hugh Q. Parmer, a Democrat from Fort Worth, served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1962 to 1964 for the 58th and 59th Legislatures and was elected to the Texas Senate in 1982 for the 68th through the 71st Legislatures (1983-1989) representing District 12 which encompasses part of Tarrant County. Parmer holds a BA from Yale University and was president of Parmer Marketing Company, Inc. In 1977, Parmer was elected Mayor of Fort Worth after serving a two-year term on the Fort Wor...

Texas Electric Cooperatives

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Although electricity had been in highly populated cities for decades, the electric companies in the 1930s were still not providing their services to rural areas. Local cooperatives developed to address this issue, and the first one in the U.S. was established in Bartlett, Texas, in 1935. It remains one of 74 co-ops in Texas (930 in the nation) to provide electricity to rural areas. In Austin in 1941, these co-ops established the Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc., to repr...

Connally, John Bowden, 1917-1993

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John Bowden Connally Jr. (February 27, 1917 – June 15, 1993) was an American politician. He served as the 39th Governor of Texas and as the 61st United States Secretary of the Treasury. He began his career as a Democrat and later became a Republican in 1973. Born in Floresville, Texas, Connally pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin. During World War II, he served on the staff of James Forrestal and Dwight D. Eisenhower before transferring to the Asiati...

Yarborough, Ralph Webster, 1903-1996

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Ralph Webster Yarborough (b. June 8, 1903, Chandler, Tex.-d. Jan. 27, 1996, Austin, Tex.), U.S. Senator from Texas, attended West Point and the Sam Houston State Teachers College, taught school in Texas, and spent one year in Germany as assistant secretary for the American Chamber of Commerce. He served in the Texas National Guard for three years before graduating from the University of Texas law school in 1927. He was assistant attorney general of Texas in the early 1930s and was elected distri...