As of the general elections of 2014 a large majority of the members of Texas's U.S House delegation are Republican along with both U.S Senators in the 114th United States Congress of the 36 Congressional districts in Texas 24 are held by Republicans and 11 by Democrats One seat is vacant Texas's Senators are John Cornyn and Ted Cruz Since 1994 Texans have not elected a Democrat to a statewide office the state's Democratic voters are made up primarily by liberal and minority groups in Austin Beaumont Dallas El Paso Houston and San Antonio as well as minority voters in East and South Texas. Defendants at the Nuremberg trials where the Allied forces prosecuted prominent members of the political military judicial and economic leadership of Nazi Germany for crimes against humanity Spring. Houston hosted Super Bowl VIII in 1974 Super Bowl XXXVIII 30 years later in 2004 and Super Bowl LI in 2017 (making it the only Texas city to host the Super Bowl three times) the 1989 NBA All-Star Game the 1981 1986 1994 and 1995 NBA Finals (The hometown Houston Rockets winning the latter 2) 2004 Major League Baseball All-Star Game Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004 2005 World Series the 2005 Big 12 Conference championship game the 2006 NBA All-Star Game and the Tennis Masters Cup in 2003 and 2004 and the annual Shell Houston Open.[citation needed] the city hosts the NCAA College Baseball Minute Maid Classic every February Houston formerly hosted the NCAA football's Houston Bowl in December but now hosts the Texas Bowl in January, Sandy Duncan Henderson Rusk County and Tyler Smith County, 17 External links 1.1 Summer Dallas 96/77 36/25 57/37 16/3 3.1 Music Many notable music artists have East Texas roots including: George Jones (Saratoga) Miranda Lambert (Lindale) Kacey Musgraves (Mineola) Neal McCoy (Longview and Jacksonville) Lee Ann Womack (Jacksonville) Janis Joplin (Port Arthur) Don Henley (Linden) Ray Price (Perryville) Johnny Horton (Rusk) Johnny Mathis (Gilmer) Tex Ritter (Panola County) Jim Reeves (Panola County) Mark Chesnutt (Beaumont) Tracy Byrd (Vidor) Clay Walker (Beaumont) Chris Tomlin (Grand Saline) and Michelle Shocked (Gilmer) among many others; The 70,000-seat Rice Stadium designed in 1950 by Hermon Lloyd & W.B Morgan and Milton McGinty is of reinforced concrete with 30-inch (760 mm) diameter columns supporting the upper decks. Architecturally the stadium is an example of modernism with simple lines and an unadorned functional design the entire lower seating bowl is located below the surrounding ground level Intended solely for football games the stadium has excellent sightlines from almost every seat. The Bank of America Center is one of the first significant examples of postmodern architecture built in downtown Houston the building completed in 1984 and designed by Philip Johnson and partner John Burgee is reminiscent of the Dutch Gothic architecture of canal houses that were once common in the Netherlands the first section is 21 stories tall while the whole building reaches a height of 56 stories. The First Congress of the Republic of Texas established Harrisburg County on December 22 1836 the original county boundaries included Galveston Island but were redrawn to its current configuration in May 1838, A large stone complex several stories high Two crosses top the structures in the foreground. Price Daniel born in Dayton Liberty County Texas's controversial alternative affirmative action plan Texas House Bill 588 guarantees Texas students who graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school class automatic admission to state-funded universities the bill encourages demographic diversity while avoiding problems stemming from the Hopwood v Texas (1996) case, A factory worker in 1942 Fort Worth Texas.
1943 1944 1945 onwards President Woodrow Wilson opened the deep-water Port of Houston in 1914 seven years after digging began by 1930 Houston had become Texas' most populous city and Harris County the most populous county in 1940 the U.S Census Bureau reported Houston's population as 77.5% white and 22.4% black. . 7.3 Languages 2.2 Asia Houston Texas Business Directory, (25.8) Houston Texas Business Directory Average daily maximum and minimum temperatures for selected cities in Texas! Pre-war events Senators Name Party First Elected Level, Southside Place Elvis Presley gave six performances there between February and March 1970 setting an attendance record with 200,000 over the six shows He performed there again on March 3 1974 setting a single day attendance record, Houston Texas Business Directory 141 Senfronia Thompson Democratic 1972 Northeast Houston Bush IAH Greenspoint southern portion of Humble. Climate This article is part of a series on the, The 1972 special Road Company was videotaped here which starred Dom DeLuise Bob Hynes Sheila MacRae & Kenny Rogers. . .
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