During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, Texas had to endure the concentration of power in the governor: who removed local, elected officials that had been part of the Confederacy ...

It was a time of rebirth in Texas. Or maybe more precisely ... office from weak to strong. Even after a 1972 constitutional amendment lengthened the governor’s term to four years, that ...

In the wake of Reconstruction, former Confederates who regained power in Texas wanted a government ... Richards had also tried to expand the governor’s authority. After officials with the ...

Prof. Moneyhon (Arkansas at Little Rock), a specialist in Reconstruction Texas, does a very fine job of restoring Davis to his proper place in history, after nearly 150 years of being marginalized and ...

There’s a good case to be made that Texas ... after their debate. Swing voters revolted against him, and Texas elected, for the first time in many decades, an avowedly progressive governor.