The excitement of booming fields in three counties fostered crime and social problems that forced Governor Pat Morris Neff, on January 12, 1922, to order martial law for Justice Precinct No. 4 in Limestone County and No. 5 in Freestone County to deal with robberies, gambling, and alcohol sales.
Neff was succeeded as governor by Miriam Wallace "Ma" Ferguson, wife of controversial former Governor James E. Ferguson, who defeated a stronger-than-usual Republican nominee, George C. Butte, an American jurist who had opposed James Ferguson's line item veto of the 1917 University of Texas appropriations bill.
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He resigned the post of President of the Board of Trustees, a position that he had held since it was vacated by B. H. Carroll in 1907, upon the nomination as President.
William Morris | Pat Metheny | Pat Robertson | Pat Boone | Morris | Pat Benatar | Butch Morris | Pat Mills | Pat O'Brien | Morris County, New Jersey | William Morris Agency | Richard Morris Hunt | Pat O'Brien (actor) | Pat Nixon | Morris Motors | Morris County | Jan Morris | Pat Haden | Morris Minor | Benny Morris | Tim Pat Coogan | Mark Morris | Jim Morris | Postman Pat | Philip Morris USA | Pat Travers | Pat Tillman | Pat McCrory | Pat Martin | Pat Brown |
Notable among the boarders were future Texas governor Pat Morris Neff and future Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Sam Rayburn.