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Frances Farenthold, the Glossary

Mary Frances Tarlton "Sissy" Farenthold (October 2, 1926 – September 26, 2021) was an American politician, attorney, activist, and educator.^[1]

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Candidates in the 1972 United States elections
Candidates in the 1974 United States elections
Hockaday School alumni
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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Aurora, Cayuga County, New York

Aurora, or Aurora-on-Cayuga, is a village and college town in the town of Ledyard, Cayuga County, New York, United States, on the shore of Cayuga Lake.

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A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Barbara Jordan

Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator, and politician. Frances Farenthold and Barbara Jordan are 20th-century Texas politicians and women state legislators in Texas.

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Benjamin Dudley Tarlton

Benjamin Dudley Tarlton (October 18, 1849 – September 22, 1919) was an American lawyer, legislator, judge, and professor.

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Betsey Wright

Betsey Ross Wright (born July 4, 1943) is an American lobbyist, activist, and political consultant who worked more than a decade for Bill Clinton in Arkansas.

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Birch Bayh

Birch Evans Bayh Jr. (January 22, 1928 – March 14, 2019) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1963 to 1981.

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Blake Farenthold

Randolph Blake Farenthold (born December 12, 1961) is an American politician and lobbyist.

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Center for American Women and Politics

The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) is a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Established in 1971, it is nationally and internationally recognized as the leading source of scholarly research and current data about U.S. women's political participation.

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Central America

Central America is a subregion of North America.

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Chief justice

The chief justice is the presiding member of a supreme court in many countries with a justice system based on English common law, such as the High Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of Ghana, the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, the Supreme Court of India, the Supreme Court of Ireland, the Supreme Court of Japan, the Supreme Court of Nepal, the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Supreme Court of the Philippines, the Supreme Court of Singapore, the Supreme Court of the United States, and provincial or state supreme courts/high courts.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Corpus Christi, Texas

Corpus Christi (Body of Christ) is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and largest city of Nueces County with portions extending into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio counties.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Dolph Briscoe

Dolph Briscoe Jr. (April 23, 1923 – June 27, 2010) was an American rancher and businessman from Uvalde, Texas, who was the 41st governor of Texas between 1973 and 1979. Frances Farenthold and Dolph Briscoe are Democratic Party members of the Texas House of Representatives.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History is an organized research unit and public service component of the University of Texas at Austin named for Dolph Briscoe, the 41st governor of Texas.

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Eagleton Institute of Politics

The Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University was established in 1956 with an endowment from Florence Peshine Eagleton (1870–1953), and it focuses on state and national politics through education and public service.

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Emeritus

Emeritus (female version: emerita) is an honorary title granted to someone who retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus".

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Genevieve Vaughan

Genevieve Vaughan (born November 21, 1939) is an American expatriate semiotician, peace activist, feminist, and philanthropist, whose ideas and work have been influential in the intellectual movements around the Gift Economy and Matriarchal Studies.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Governor of Texas

The Governor of Texas heads the state government of Texas and is the highest elected official in the state.

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.

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Helsinki Watch

Helsinki Watch was a private American non-governmental organization established by Robert L. Bernstein in 1978, designed to monitor the former Soviet Union's compliance with the 1975 Helsinki Accords.

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Hockaday School

The Hockaday School is an independent, secular, college preparatory day school for girls Pre-K through 12 located in Dallas, Texas, United States.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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India Edwards

India Edwards (June 16, 1895 – January 14, 1990) was an American journalist and political advisor who served as the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee. Frances Farenthold and India Edwards are Female candidates for Vice President of the United States.

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Indiana

Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Institute for Policy Studies

The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is an American progressive think tank started in 1963 and based in Washington, D.C. It was directed by John Cavanagh from 1998 to 2021.

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

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Juris Doctor

A Juris Doctor, Doctor of Jurisprudence, or Doctor of Law (JD) is a graduate-entry professional degree that primarily prepares individuals to practice law.

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Kleberg County, Texas

Kleberg County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Lena Springs

Lena Jones Wade Springs (March 22, 1883 - May 17, 1942) was the first woman placed in nomination for Vice President of the United States at a political convention. Frances Farenthold and Lena Springs are Female candidates for Vice President of the United States.

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Mike Gravel

Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel (May 13, 1930 – June 26, 2021) was an American politician and writer who represented Alaska in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1981 as a member of the Democratic Party.

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Missouri

Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Nairobi

Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya.

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National Women's Political Caucus

The National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) is an organization which was founded in 1971 by leaders of the women's liberation movement to promote women's participation in government.

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Nuclear disarmament

Nuclear disarmament is the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons.

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Nueces County, Texas

Nueces County is located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term neurodegenerative disease of mainly the central nervous system that affects both the motor and non-motor systems of the body.

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Party conference

The terms party conference (UK English), political convention (US and Canadian English), and party congress usually refer to a general meeting of a political party.

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Public Leadership Education Network

Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN) is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. Its focus is to introduce college women and marginalized gender groups to role models, career paths, and skills trainings before they enter the workforce, to help prepare them for leadership roles in public service.

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Rothko Chapel

The Rothko Chapel is a non-denominational chapel in Houston, Texas, founded by John and Dominique de Menil.

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Rutgers University

Rutgers University, officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey.

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Ruth Mandel

Ruth Mandel (née Blumenstock; August 29, 1938 – April 11, 2020), usually published as Ruth B. Mandel, was an American political scientist.

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Tea Party Caucus

The Tea Party Caucus (TPC) was a congressional caucus of the Republican Party in the United States House of Representatives, consisting of its most conservative members.

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Texas Courts of Appeals

The Texas Courts of Appeals are part of the Texas judicial system.

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Texas House of Representatives

The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Thomas Eagleton

Thomas Francis Eagleton (September 4, 1929 – March 4, 2007) was an American lawyer who served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1968 to 1987.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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University of Houston

The University of Houston is a public research university in Houston, Texas.

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University of North Texas

The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas.

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University of Texas School of Law

The University of Texas School of Law (Texas Law) is the law school of the University of Texas at Austin, a public research university in Austin, Texas.

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Uvalde, Texas

Uvalde is a city in and the county seat of Uvalde County, Texas, United States.

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Vassar College

Vassar College is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.

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Vice President of the United States

The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession.

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Wells College

Wells College was a private liberal arts college in Aurora, New York, located in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is a non-profit non-governmental organization working "to bring together women of different political views and philosophical and religious backgrounds determined to study and make known the causes of war and work for a permanent peace" and to unite women worldwide who oppose oppression and exploitation.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Farenthold

Also known as Frances "Sissy" Farenthold, Frances T. Farenthold, Frances Tarlton Farenthold, Frances ‘‘Sissy’’ Farenthold, Sissy Farenthold.

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See also

Candidates in the 1972 United States elections

Candidates in the 1974 United States elections

Hockaday School alumni

Wells College faculty

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