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James Edward "Pa" Ferguson (August 31, 1871 - September 21, 1944) was a United States
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 politician
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 from the state
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 of Texas
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.

Early life
Ferguson was born near Salado, Texas
Salado, Texas

Salado is a village in Bell County, Texas, Texas, United States. Salado was incorporated in 2003, before which point it was a census-designated place ....
. He entered Salado College
Salado College

Salado College was a college in Salado, Texas, United States that operated from 1860 until 1885.Salado College began on October 8, 1859 at a tent meeting at Salado Springs of prominent men from throughout Bell County, Texas with a desire to create a high class school in the county....
 at age twelve but was eventually expelled for disobedience. At the age of 16, he left home and drifted though the states of the American Old West
American Old West

For cultural influences and their development, see Western .The American Old West or Wild West comprises the history, geography, peoples, lore, and cultural expression of life in the Western United States , most often referring to the period of the latter half of the 19th century, between the American Civil War and the end of th...
. After he returned to Texas, he was admitted to the bar. He married Miriam A. "Ma" Wallace
Miriam A. Ferguson

Miriam Amanda Wallace "Ma" Ferguson became the first female governor of Texas in 1925. She was born in Bell County, Texas. Her husband, James Edward Ferguson, the governor from 1915 to 1917, was impeached, convicted, and removed from office during his second term....
 on December 31, 1899.






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James Edward "Pa" Ferguson (August 31, 1871 - September 21, 1944) was a United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 politician
Politician

A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
 from the state
U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 state of the United States that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States . Because of this shared sovereignty, an United States is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of Domicile ....
 of Texas
Texas

Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
.

Early life


Ferguson was born near Salado, Texas
Salado, Texas

Salado is a village in Bell County, Texas, Texas, United States. Salado was incorporated in 2003, before which point it was a census-designated place ....
. He entered Salado College
Salado College

Salado College was a college in Salado, Texas, United States that operated from 1860 until 1885.Salado College began on October 8, 1859 at a tent meeting at Salado Springs of prominent men from throughout Bell County, Texas with a desire to create a high class school in the county....
 at age twelve but was eventually expelled for disobedience. At the age of 16, he left home and drifted though the states of the American Old West
American Old West

For cultural influences and their development, see Western .The American Old West or Wild West comprises the history, geography, peoples, lore, and cultural expression of life in the Western United States , most often referring to the period of the latter half of the 19th century, between the American Civil War and the end of th...
. After he returned to Texas, he was admitted to the bar. He married Miriam A. "Ma" Wallace
Miriam A. Ferguson

Miriam Amanda Wallace "Ma" Ferguson became the first female governor of Texas in 1925. She was born in Bell County, Texas. Her husband, James Edward Ferguson, the governor from 1915 to 1917, was impeached, convicted, and removed from office during his second term....
 on December 31, 1899. During the 1900s and 1910s, Ferguson ran several local campaigns.

Governor of Texas


In 1914, Ferguson was elected Governor of Texas running as an anti-prohibition
Prohibition

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ist Democrat
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. He served in this position from January 19, 1915 to August 25, 1917.

After being re-elected in 1916, Ferguson vetoed the appropriations for the University of Texas
University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin is a public university research university located in Austin, Texas, Texas, United States, and is the flagship#University campuses institution of University of Texas System....
. This was in retribution for the university's refusal to dismiss certain faculty members which Ferguson found objectionable. This move spurred the drive to impeach
Impeachment

Impeachment is the first of two stages in a specific process for a legislative body to consider whether or not to forcibly remove a government official from office....
 Ferguson. A leading Ferguson critic on the UT campus was historian
Historian

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 Eugene C. Barker
Eugene C. Barker

Eugene Campbell Barker was a distinguished professor of Texas history at the University of Texas at Austin at Austin, Texas. He was the first living person to have a UT campus building, the Eugene C....
. Ferguson was indicted on nine charges in July 1917. The Texas House of Representatives
Texas House of Representatives

The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the Texas Legislature. The House is composed of 150 members from an equal amount of districts across the Texas, with each constituency consisting of nearly 140,000 people....
 prepared 21 charges against Ferguson and the Senate convicted him on 10 of those charges. The Senate removed him from the office of Governor and declared him ineligible to hold office in the state of Texas. Despite this ruling, Ferguson ran for Governor in 1918, but he was defeated by William P. Hobby
William P. Hobby

William Pettus Hobby was the publisher of the Houston Post and the 27th Governor of Texas of the U.S. state of Texas from 1917 to 1921.Born in Moscow, Texas, Hobby became a circulation clerk for the Post in 1895 and was promoted to business writer in August 1901....
.

Presidential candidate


Ferguson also ran for President of the United States
President of the United States

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
 in the 1920 election as the candidate of the American Party
American Party

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. Ferguson was on the ballot in only Texas, where he received 47,968 votes (9.86 percent of the vote in Texas, 0.18 percent of the vote nationwide). The 1920 presidential election
United States presidential election, 1920

The United States presidential election of 1920 was dominated by the aftermath of World War I and the hostile reaction to Woodrow Wilson, the History of the United States Democratic Party....
 was won by Republican
Republican Party (United States)

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 candidate Warren Harding although Democratic nominee James M. Cox
James M. Cox

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 won in Texas.

Ferguson was also surpassed by four other unsuccessful candidates:

  • James Middleton Cox of the Democratic Party.
  • Eugene Victor Debs of the Socialist Party of America
    Socialist Party of America

    The Socialist Party of America was a Democratic socialism political party in the United States, formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America which had split from the main organization in 1899....
    .
  • Parley Parker Christensen
    Parley P. Christensen

    Parley Parker Christensen was an American politician and 1920 presidential nominee of the fledgling Farmer-Labor Party.He was born on July 19, 1869 in Weston, Idaho, and moved to Newton, Utah, when he was a small child....
     of the United States Farmer-Labor Party.
  • Aaron Sherman Watkins
    Aaron S. Watkins

    Aaron S. Watkins , born in Ohio, was president of Asbury College in Kentucky. Before his ordination as a Methodist minister, he practiced law with his brother....
     of the United States Prohibition Party.


Senate bid and First Gentleman of Texas


He failed at his bid for the United States Senate
United States Senate

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 in 1922, making it to the runoff election but losing to Earle B. Mayfield. Ferguson ran the campaigns of his wife Miriam A. Ferguson
Miriam A. Ferguson

Miriam Amanda Wallace "Ma" Ferguson became the first female governor of Texas in 1925. She was born in Bell County, Texas. Her husband, James Edward Ferguson, the governor from 1915 to 1917, was impeached, convicted, and removed from office during his second term....
, who was elected to two terms as Governor of Texas (January 20, 1925 - January 17, 1927 and January 17, 1933 - January 15, 1935).