James E. Ferguson Quotes
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Furgeson's opponent, Judge Felix Robertson, had strong support from the Ku Klux Klan.
James E. Ferguson, 1871-1944, Governor of Texas (Democrat), Campaign speeches, 1924
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Ronald Reagan who had always preached “never attack a fellow Republican” challenged Ford, a sitting President.
Many feel that this reality is one of the major factors that kept him from running for President despite the polls predicting that he could win. He was generally a very positive politicians.
While this is generally true, there have been times where one candidate has been so unattractive, corrupt, or unsavory -- or was closely alighted with such an unpopular figure --that the opponent won without a message just concentrating on the negative aspects of the opponent.
James Edward Ferguson Jr., known as Pa Ferguson, was an American Democratic politician and the 26th Governor of Texas, in office from 1915 to 1917. He was indicted and impeached during his second term, but according to Ferguson technically impeached, after he resigned office. Ferguson said that he resigned "the day before the judgment was announced and contended that it did not apply to him. The question was eventually carried into the courts, where the judgment of the Court of Impeachment was sustained. But the mere fact that Ferguson had been impeached and made ineligible to hold any office of trust or profit under the state did not in any sense remove him from the field of Texas politics. In 1918 he sought the Democratic party nomination for the governorship but was defeated by William P. Hobby. In 1920 he was an unsuccessful candidate for President on his own American party ticket. In 1922 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate. But eventually returned to the Governor's mansion, when his wife was elected Governor.
