'Pa' Ferguson grew up poor on a Bell County farm and rode rural support to the governorship in 1914. Three years later, he was impeached.
is the only Texas governor ever to be impeached and removed from office. It happened in 1917, when Woodrow Wilson was president, Prohibition was the polarizing issue of the day and the Ku Klux Klan was a force in Texas politics.Ferguson was a charismatic populist who fought to improve the lot of sharecroppers. He grew up poor on a Bell County farm and became a lawyer and a banker. He railed against academic elites, and as governor he declared war on the University of Texas.
"Pa" ran her campaigns, and when she became the state's chief executive, he occupied an office next to hers. Their campaign slogan:"Two governors for the price of one."He was born on a farm near Salado, 50 miles north of Austin. His father died when he was 4, and Ferguson worked the fields as a child. He went to Salado College, a prep school, but was expelled for disobedience.
Mayes was also a former lieutenant governor who had been one of Ferguson's main rivals for the Democratic nomination for governor in 1914. The Brownwood Bulletin, partly owned by Mayes, had editorialized against Ferguson, and"Pa" took it personally, complaining that the paper had"skinned me from hell to breakfast."
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