https://padlet.com/davisn2713/v14olgg6b18l A history lesson en-us 2018-05-07 16:42:12 UTC 2021-07-10 04:02:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Templeball.png davisn2713 https://padlet.com/davisn2713/v14olgg6b18l/wish/258618783 Hello did you hear about Miriam "ma" ferguson?]]> 2018-05-07 16:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/davisn2713/v14olgg6b18l/wish/258618783 davisn2713 https://padlet.com/davisn2713/v14olgg6b18l/wish/258619304 She was the first woman governor of Texas]]> 2018-05-07 16:49:00 UTC https://padlet.com/davisn2713/v14olgg6b18l/wish/258619304 davisn2713 https://padlet.com/davisn2713/v14olgg6b18l/wish/258619917 She was the one who got rid of the Ku Klux Klan's hold on Texas politics!]]> 2018-05-07 16:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/davisn2713/v14olgg6b18l/wish/258619917 davisn2713 https://padlet.com/davisn2713/v14olgg6b18l/wish/258621387 Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson was born in Bell County, Texas, she studied at Salado College and Baylor Female College. When she was 24, she married James Edward Ferguson, who was then a lawyer.]]> 2018-05-07 16:53:21 UTC https://padlet.com/davisn2713/v14olgg6b18l/wish/258621387 davisn2713 https://padlet.com/davisn2713/v14olgg6b18l/wish/258621936 After her husband's impeachment and conviction, Ma Ferguson sought the Democratic nomination for governor, and was elected to office, she told voters that she would follow the advice of her husband and Texas would get "two governors for the price of one." A common campaign slogan was, "Me for Ma, and I Ain't Got a Durned Thing Against Pa." Against the odds, Ma Ferguson was elected governor, becoming the first female chief executive of Texas. Ferguson was elected with the help and support of her campaign manager, Homer T. Brannon of Fort Worth, Texas.]]> 2018-05-07 16:54:28 UTC https://padlet.com/davisn2713/v14olgg6b18l/wish/258621936 davisn2713 https://padlet.com/davisn2713/v14olgg6b18l/wish/258622832
"Fergusonism," as the Fergusons' brand of populism was called, is still a controversial subject in Texas. As governor, she tackled some of the tougher issues of the day. Though a teetotaler like her husband, she aligned herself with the "wets" in the battle over prohibition and took a firm stand against the Ku Klux Klan, she has been described as a fiscal conservative, but also pushed for a state sales tax and corporate income tax. Miriam Ferguson is often credited with a quote allegedly spoken in reference to bilingualism in Texas schools: “If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it ought to be good enough for the children of Texas.” However, variations of this going back to 1881 were often used to ridicule the claimed backwardness of various unnamed Christians, which supports the argument that the attribution to Ferguson is false.
Mrs. Ferguson's infamously generous granting of pardons was her way of relieving the overcrowded conditions in Texas prisons. During two non-consecutive terms in office, Mrs. Ferguson issued almost 4,000 pardons, many of them to free those convicted of violating prohibition laws. Though never proven, rumors persisted that pardons were available in exchange for cash payments to the governor’s husband; in 1936, voters passed an amendment to the state constitution stripping the governor of the power to issue pardons and granting that power to a politically independent Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.

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