#james ferguson

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With each pic taken, he could feel his immense bulk inflating further, barely being able to move from pose to pose. Even as he rapidly approaches immobility, the pump of his increasingly heavy mass felt too good to stop.

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Portrait Drawing of a Lady, James Ferguson, 1750

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[Leshawn] Ford argued that history is currently being taught in both K-12 schools and higher education from "unfair" viewpoints since they do not include adequate perspectives from minority communities. During a phone interview with Campus Reform Tuesday,  Ford said, “your history at the college level should also be abolished if it's not accurate." He added, "it sends higher educated people out without a stronger misunderstanding and miseducation [than] before they entered the university."  

Ford is backing legislation in the Illinois legislature that would require more information to be taught about the Civil Rights Movement, the role of LGBT citizens, the role of labor unions, as well as the study of the events related to the "forceful removal and illegal deportation of Mexican American U.S. citizens during the Great Depression."

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“Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most useful. For, by knowledge derived from this science, not only the bulk of the Earth is discovered . . . ; but our very faculties are enlarged with the grandeur of the ideas it conveys, our minds exalted above [their] low contracted prejudices." JAMES FERGUSON, 1757 (But the best? They all matter. No, I love this quote...)

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By Bain News Service, publisher - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ggbain.16894. Public Domain, [source]

James Ferguson

Governor Despite having no prior experience as an elected official, James Ferguson was elected governor of Texas in 1914. Though he won reelection in 1916, rumors were already circulating about his administration and, though investigations had turned up nothing definitive, he faced strong opposition. Early in 1917, Ferguson got into a dispute with the University of Texas. Ferguson had objected to the appointment of the new president of the university, Robert Vincent, and thought that a great deal of the opposition he faced during his reelection was coming from the University of Texas. Soon after his reelection his submitted a list of faculty members he wanted fired from UT, including William Harding Mayes, a former Lt. Governor who had run against Ferguson in 1914. The Board of Regents refused. When the state budget arrived on his desk later that year, Ferguson vetoed the entire budget for the University of Texas.

Impeachment In July of 1917, Ferguson was indicted on nine charges of mishandling state money. Ferguson responded by announcing his candidacy for a third term as governor. The Speaker of the House called for a special session to deal with the scandal, which Ferguson then legitimized by calling one himself for appropriations for UT. Instead, the House started impeachment proceedings. The House presented 21 charges against Ferguson and the Senate convicted him of 10, mostly misapplication of funds and the acceptance of money from questionable sources. However, August 25th, the day before the verdict, Ferguson resigned, claiming the impeachment judgment did not apply to him.

First Gentleman Ferguson would take the matter to the courts, which would uphold the impeachment, and declare him ineligible to hold office in Texas. Nonetheless, he ran unsuccessfully for governor against William Hobby, his former Lt. Governor, in 1918, for the US President in 1920, and for US Senate in 1922. In 1924, he changed tack, successfully running his wife, Miriam Ferguson’s, campaign for governor, making her the second female governor in the country and the first in Texas. He would continue to run his wife’s campaigns for the next two decades, but was only successful again in 1932. Ferguson died in 1944 and is buried next to his wife in the Texas State Cemetery.

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Wild horses by James Ferguson

Brussels, Belgium

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James Mynde. Plate XIX, Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Pneumatics, Hydrostatics, and Optics (James Ferguson), 1764.

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Astronomy on Newton’s Principles, James Ferguson.