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The Texas State Preservation Board is a state agency that maintains the Texas Capitol, the General Land Office Building (now the Texas Capitol Visitor's Center), and the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. [1] It has its headquarters in the Sam Houston State Office Building in Downtown Austin. [2]
Dempsie Henley State Jail (Female) Pam Lychner State Jail (originally Atascocita Unit) Lucille G. Plane State Jail (Female) Region IV. Fabian Dale Dominguez State Jail. Renaldo V. Lopez State Jail. Joe Ney State Jail (originally the Hondo Unit) Rogelio Sanchez State Jail. Region V.
t. e. On August 15, 2014, Texas Governor Rick Perry was indicted by a Travis County grand jury, but has since been cleared on all charges. [1] [2] [3] The first charge of the indictment was abuse of official capacity, a first-degree felony, for threatening to veto $7.5 million in funding for the Public Integrity Unit, a state public corruption ...
Preston Earnest Smith (March 8, 1912 – October 18, 2003) was an American entrepreneur and politician who served as the 40th governor of Texas from 1969 to 1973. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the lieutenant governor from 1963 to 1969.
Dolph Briscoe Jr. (April 23, 1923 – June 27, 2010) was an American rancher and businessman from Uvalde, Texas, who was the 41st governor of Texas between 1973 and 1979. He was a member of the Democratic Party . Because of his re-election following an amendment to the Texas Constitution doubling the Governor's term to four years, Briscoe ...
World War II. William Perry Clements Jr. (April 13, 1917 – May 29, 2011) was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who served two nonconsecutive terms as the governor of Texas between 1979 and 1991. His terms bookended the sole term served by Mark Wells White, a Democrat who defeated Clements in the 1982 election only to ...
The 1990 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1990, to elect the governor of Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor Bill Clements did not run for re-election, so the election pitted Democrat Ann Richards against Republican Clayton Williams. Richards narrowly defeated Williams on Election Day, winning 49.5% of the vote to Williams ...
Ben Barnes (Texas politician) Benny Frank Barnes (born April 17, 1938) is an American real estate magnate, politician, and crisis manager, who formerly served as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from 1965 to 1969 and the 36th Lieutenant Governor of Texas from January 21, 1969, to January 16, 1973, for two two-year terms. He was a ...