Miriam A. Ferguson
American politician (1875-1961)
Miriam A. Ferguson (born Miriam Amanda Wallace; June 13 1875 — June 25, 1961) was a politician in Texas. She was nicknamed "Ma" Ferguson. She became the Governor of Texas on two different occasions. She was the second woman governor that served the United States.
In a 1932 speech, her husband James Ferguson defended the record of Fergusonism; the brand of Texas politics she and her husband represented. He did so by listing reforms such as child labor and workmen's compensation laws, aid for rural education, a free textbook law, and laws regulating the working hours of women.[1]
Ferguson was born in Bell County, Texas. She died of heart failure, age eighty six.
References
change- ↑ The Governors of Texas by Ross Phares, 1999, P.142
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