January 15, - January 15, July 11, - January 15, This searchable database identifies former governors by state and dates of service. The governors' biographies available on the NGA website provide summary biographical information only and are edited infrequently. Source Sobel, Robert, and John Raimo, eds. Recent Texas Governors. George W. Bush January 17, - December 21, Learn More. William P. In Ferguson helped to establish the Temple State Bank.
A member of the Democratic Party , Ferguson took a keen interest in politics and in was elected as governor of Texas. During his period of office he began a policy of state aid to rural schools tried to make attendance at school compulsory. In Ferguson was reelected as governor. He continued with his policy of increased education spending and the tax rate reached the constitutional maximum of thirty-five cents.
However, on 21st July, , Ferguson appeared before the Travis County grand jury, and indicted on nine charges. Seven of the charges related to misapplication of public funds, one to embezzlement, and one to the diversion of a special fund. The Court of Impeachment, by a vote of twenty-five to three, removed Ferguson from office and made him ineligible to hold any office in the state of Texas.
In , with her husband unable to stand, Miriam Ferguson decided to run for governor. Ferguson defeated Robertson and in November, , defeated the Republican Party candidate and therefore became the first woman governor of Texas. She was the second woman governor in United States history, Nellie Ross, having won in Wyoming a few days earlier. Ferguson attempt at securing an anti-mask law against the Ku Klux Klan was passed but it was overturned by the courts.
She also caused controversy by pardoning an average of convicts a month. Many women were furious at Jim's plan to govern over his wife's shoulder, but the unusual plan worked.
At the age of forty-nine, "Ma" Ferguson became Texas governor. Charges of corruption plagued Miriam's first term, and she lost a re-election bid. Six years later, Miriam ran again, this time successfully, returning to the Governor's Mansion for a second term. Miriam "Ma" Ferguson retired from public office in Her political life was over but her place in Texas history was secure. Sixty years would pass before Texas elected Ann Richards as its second woman governor.
The Texas State Libraries and Archives has an online display of the portraits and biographies of former Texas governors, including Miriam and James Ferguson. The Miriam A.
Ferguson Collection at the Bell County Museum includes photographs, clothing, correspondence, housewares, and furniture. The Museum also keeps almost five hundred issues of the Ferguson Forum , a weekly newspaper James Ferguson published in Temple, Dallas, and Austin to generate funding for his and Miriam's political campaigns. The paper was published until Anders, Evan. Austin: University of Texas Press,
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