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	Texas Politics - Lieutenant Governors: William P. Hobby, Sr.
		William Pettus Hobby (1878-1964), editor, publisher, and governor of Texas, was born in Moscow, Texas, on March 26, 1878, the son of Eudora Adeline (Pettus) and Edwin E. Hobby.
		Hobby was elected lieutenant governor in 1914 and was reelected in 1916.
		Hobby's administration saw the passage of measures for drought relief, runoff requirements in party primaries, and state aid for schools and highways.
	texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu /html/leg/ltgovernors/14.html (542 words)

	Politics: Paul Hobby
		Hobby counters that the audit upon which his opponents base their contentions covered a period of time overlapping Gov. Bush's election and subsequent appointment of the GSC chair.
		Hobby says that, despite the fact that Bush limited his management authority by appointing Alphonso Jackson to chair the GSC, he is proud of his record.
		Bill Hobby, Paul's father, gave his campaign $100,000 from a PAC funded with the remains of the elder Hobby's political war chest, and that the contribution flunks the smell test.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol18/issue07/pols.hobby.html (1216 words)

	Historic Houston: Great Houstonians: Governor William P. Hobby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ILLIAM Pettus Hobby, editor, publisher and twenty-sixth governor of Texas, was born March 26, 1878 in Moscow, Texas, one of six children of Eudora Adeline (Pettus) and Edwin E. Hobby.
		Hobby's administration is remembered for the increased state support of public schools, and the passage of laws providing aid to farmers.
		Hobby died in Houston on June 7, 1964, at the age of 86.
	www.gomainst.com /houston/historic/history8t.htm (519 words)

	History of Hobby Elementary School
		Kelso's administration, Hobby's enrollment peaked at 1,200 students.
		Williams served as Principal for the next ten years retiring in 1998.
		Hobby has had a colorful and rich existence for the past 35 years.
	es.houstonisd.org /hobbyes/main/History.htm (235 words)

	Texas Certified Public Manager Program--Hobby Family Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Pettus Hobby, editor, publisher, and governor of Texas from 1917 to 1921, was born in Moscow, Texas, on March 26, 1878, the son of Eudora Adeline (Pettus) and Edwin E. Hobby.
		Hobby was elected lieutenant governor in 1914 and was re-elected in 1916.
		Hobby's administration was the passage of measures for drought relief, runoff requirements in party primaries, and state aid for schools and highways.
	www.txstate.edu /cpm/hobby/bios.html (1108 words)

	TEXAS WOMEN
		Oveta Culp Hobby was born January 19, 1905, in Killeen, Texas, to Isaac William Culp, a lawyer and politician, and Emma Hoover Culp, a dedicated suffragist.
		Hobby had served as consultant to the Hoover Commission for the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, which had recommended that the Federal Security Agency be elevated to full cabinet status.
		Hobby had already privately informed Eisenhower that she would be resigning because of her husband's illness, which she did in July 1955.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/6615/texas-women.html (7532 words)

	Oveta Culp Hobby
		Hobby took the job, even though her pay was only one dollar a year.
		Hobby's job was to figure out how women could serve in jobs that did not involve fighting.
		Hobby said that members of the WAC were "serious-minded women with a serious purpose, resolved to do a serious job." At the end of the war, Hobby was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for her work.
	www.harcourtschool.com /activity/biographies/hobby (520 words)

	An Inventory of a William Pettus Hobby, Jr. Scrapbook of at the Texas State Archives, 1989
		William (Bill) Pettus Hobby, Jr., served as Lieutenant Governor of Texas for eighteen years, from 1973 to 1991, longer than any previous holder of that office.
		In 1965, Governor John Connally appointed Hobby to a term as a regent for the University of Houston.
		Some of the highlights of Hobby's years as Lieutenant Governor included reforms in the appropriations process such as zero-based budgeting, which required agencies to justify their budgets regardless of previous budget levels, and a requirement that the fiscal impact of bills be determined and reported to the Legislature in advance of passage.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/tslac/20077/20077-P.html (1285 words)

	Texas Governors - The Politics of Personality - Part 1 - Texas State Library
		Hobby was elected governor in 1918, and supported a generous appropriation for education, state assistance in obtaining home loans, and tax levies on oil and gas products.
		Hobby married Oveta Culp on February 23, 1931.
		Two children were born to this marriage: William Pettus Hobby, Jr., who was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1972, and Jessica Oveta.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /governors/personality (1176 words)

	William P. Hobby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Pettus Hobby (March 26, 1878–June 7, 1964) was the publisher of the Houston Post and the governor of the U.S. state of Texas from 1917 to 1921.
		Hobby was elected lieutenant governor of Texas in 1914 and after James Edward Ferguson was removed from office in 1917, he became the youngest governor in the history of the state.
		William P. Hobby Airport in Houston and Hobby Middle School in San Antonio, Texas are named for him.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/W/William-P.-Hobby.htm (276 words)

	The Killeen Daily Herald \| Our Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Oveta Culp Hobby was the first secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Dwight Eisenhower after a long career in political activism, organization of the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps during World War II and promotion of women’s issues at the Houston Post.
		Hobby was born Jan. 19, 1905, in a small house on Young Street near Rancier Avenue, the second of Isaac and Emma Hoover Culp’s seven children.
		Hobby was appointed to the unpaid post of Women’s Interest Section of the War Department Bureau of Public Relations in 1941, and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, lobbied for the establishment of the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps, or WAACs.
	www.kdhnews.com /2005/January15-21/texaswednesday2.html (830 words)

	American President
		Oveta Culp Hobby was the first secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and served in that capacity under President Eisenhower from April 11, 1953, until August 1, 1955.
		Hobby studied at Mary Hardin-Baylor College and the University of Texas Law School until 1927.
		After marrying William Pettus Hobby, a former governor and owner of a number of newspapers, Oveta Culp Hobby began a career in journalism as research editor (1931-1933), book editor (1933-1936), assistant editor (1936-1938), and executive vice president (after 1938).
	www.americanpresident.org /history/dwighteisenhower/cabinet/HEW/ovetaculphobby/email.html (379 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Hobby to Hodgdon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hobby, Oveta Culp (1905-1995) — Born in Killeen,
		Married to Oveta Culp Hobby; father of William Pettus Hobby, Jr.
		Son of William Pettus Hobby and Oveta Culp Hobby.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/hobby-hodgdon.html (987 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: HOBBY, WILLIAM PETTUS
		William Pettus Hobby, editor, publisher, and governor of Texas, was born in Moscow, Texas, on March 26, 1878, the son of Eudora Adeline (Pettus) and Edwin E. Hobby.
		was removed from office in 1917, Hobby became the twenty-sixth governor of Texas and the youngest man, at thirty-nine, to hold the office.
		Hobby continued in the presidency and maintained executive control.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/HH/fho4.html (614 words)

	Presidential Papers, Doc#1096 Personal To Oveta Culp Hobby, 9 March 1959. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
		Former HEW Secretary Hobby had written on March 6, 1959 (WHCF/OF 107-B) in response to Eisenhower’s February appeal for support in behalf of the balanced budget (see no. 1042).
		Hobby had pledged to do everything she could "to help in getting the facts before members of the Congress and the American people." See also no. 1121.
		Hobby’s husband, William Pettus Hobby, had served as governor of Texas from 1917 until 1921.
	www.eisenhowermemorial.org /presidential-papers/second-term/documents/1096.cfm (397 words)

	William Pettus Hobby & Relations/TX
		Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-1982, Prepared by the Staff of the Texas Legislative Council, Austin, 08/82
		Father: Edwin Hobby, served in the TX Senate 1874-1879
		Maternal Grandfather, I.W. Cupl, 3 terms in the House of Representatives
	genforum.genealogy.com /hobby/messages/247.html (48 words)

	UH Through Time: People (Close Up)
		Hobby served longer as lieutenant governor (18 years) than anyone else in Texas history.
		Hobby's first assignment as chancellor was to set in motion the organizational studies regents had agreed to conduct before deciding whether to change the system's structure.
		He established a panel to envision UH's future as it moved to narrow the gap between an increasingly technological world and a population whose education level was static or eroding.
	info.lib.uh.edu /sca/digital/time/people_large.html?ID=35 (380 words)

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		Hobby was born on March 26, 1878 at Moscow, Polk County, Texas.
		Hobby was elected lieutenant governor in 1914 and re- elected in 1916.
		Two children were born to this marriage: William Pettus Hobby, Jr., who was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1972, and Jesse Oveta.
	www.sipoftexas.org /biogovernors.php (8349 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Ladies of the Army -- Aug. 11, 1941
		William Pettus Hobby, wife of the publisher of the Houston (Tex.) Post.
		Hobby announced that she was going to assemble a staff of female reporters to write Army news for the women's pages, to tell women (estimated at four for every one of the 1,500,000 men in the Army) about their sons', husbands', sweethearts', brothers', fathers' health, discipline, food, clothing, entertainment.
		Says she: "This is the public's Army, the nation's Army, and the women have as much interest in it as the men." Husband William Hobby (Governor of Texas in 1917-21), 18 years her senior, remains in Texas to run the Post.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,765929,00.html (395 words)

	Windfalls of War - The Center for Public Integrity
		In 1998, Houston Democrat Paul Hobby, a director at EGL, lost the election for state comptroller by 20,223 votes, about half a percentage point, in what was called the best recent performance by a statewide Democratic candidate.
		Hobby served as Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock's chief of staff in 1991 while on leave of absence from the Justice Department.
		Hobby's father, William Pettus Hobby Jr., served as Texas lieutenant governor from 1973 to 1990.
	www.publicintegrity.org /wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=18 (434 words)

	Presidential Papers, Doc#560 To Oveta Culp Hobby, 24 November 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
		Hobby had been ill the evening of November 19 (see New York Times, Nov. 20, 1953).
		Hobby referred to two congressional leaders--Representative Daniel A. Reed, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Congressman Carl T. Curtis, Chairman of the House Social Security Subcommittee --who opposed the Administration's program for freezing the social security tax rate for one year beginning January 1954.
		Hobby's husband, newspaper publisher and former Governor of Texas, William Pettus Hobby.
	www.eisenhowermemorial.org /presidential-papers/first-term/documents/560.cfm (351 words)

	AllRefer.com - Oveta Culp Hobby (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Oveta Culp Hobby 1905–95, American public official and newspaper publisher, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (1953–55), b.
		Killeen, Tex. She served as parliamentarian of the Texas house of representatives from 1925 to 1931 and from 1939 to 1941.
		In 1931 she married William Pettus Hobby, former governor of Texas (1917–21) and publisher of the Houston Post.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Hobby-Ov.html (290 words)

	Hobby, Oveta Culp
		In 1925 she was appointed parliamentarian of the Texas House of Representatives, a post she held until her marriage in 1931 to William Pettus Hobby, publisher of the Houston Post and a former governor of Texas.
		She was active in the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower to the presidency and in January 1953 was named director of the Federal Security Administration.
		In March the FSA was elevated to Cabinet status as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and Hobby, as the first secretary of HEW, became in April the second woman to serve in the Cabinet.
	search.eb.com /women/articles/Hobby_Oveta_Culp.html (396 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - 100 Tall Texans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		WILLIAM PETTUS HOBBY (1878-1964) -- When Texas Gov. James E. Ferguson was removed from office in 1917, Lt. Gov.
		During World War I Hobby set up a draft system for Texas, where more than half of the nation's military camps and airfields were located.
		Hobby Airport in Houston is named in his honor.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/special/00/talltx/hobbyw.html (125 words)

	UH Through Time: People (Close Up)
		William Â“BillÂ” Pettus Hobby, Jr., son of Oveta Culp and William Pettus Hobby was born in Houston.
		Four years after ending a celebrated political career Hobby was named chancellor of the University of Houston System.
		With the rapidly growing population of Fort Bend County, Hobby established UH's Fort Bend program.
	info.lib.uh.edu /sca/digital/time/people_large.html?ID=35&type= (380 words)

	Texas Governor William Pettus Hobby: An Inventory of Records at the Texas State Archives, 1915-1920 (bulk 1917-1920)
		Texas Governor William Pettus Hobby: An Inventory of Records at the Texas State Archives, 1915-1920 (bulk 1917-1920)
		Documents are records of William Pettus Hobby's terms as governor and lieutenant governor of Texas.
		Most of the correspondence pertains to Hobby's position as lieutenant governor, and deals primarily with appointments, letters of congratulation, legislation, and pardons.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/tslac/40029/tsl-40029.html (1223 words)

	Lieutenant Governors of Texas - Texas State Library
		Wells Thompson served as president pro tempore of the Senate after Hubbard relinquished his duties.
		Hobby became governor on August 25, 1917, when James Ferguson was removed from office.
		Stevenson became governor on August 4, 1941, when W. Lee O'Daniel resigned to become a U.S. Senator.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /ref/abouttx/ltgov.html (319 words)

	William Hope Hodgson books ; 1587156040 Misspelled: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author of horror and fantastic fiction.Hodgson ran away to sea at the age of thirteen and eventually served in the Merchant Marine.
		William H Swatos Jr - The Power of Religious Publics: Staking Claims in American Society - 0275964787
		William H Pearce - Trends in Vascular Surgery - 0944496709
	www.gatheringofallnations.com /991489_william-h-frederick_0394488229100greatgardenplantsbookssale.html (652 words)

	Oral History Collection Guide Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Governor William Hobby talks about his political career and his relationship with State Senator A. Aikin, Jr.
		He mentions his first encounter with Senator Aikin, the characteristics of Senator Aikin as a member of the senate, his (Hobby's) early interest in running for public office, and his (Hobby's) views of Lt. Governor's office.
		Hobby further comments of then shared interests, issues of financing public education in Texas, and political skill of Aikin.
	www.tamu-commerce.edu /library/oral/geehobbw.htm (132 words)

	Len Kubiak's Texas History Series-History of Bucksnort, Viesca, and Marlin, Falls County, Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stephen F. Austin and his partner, Samuel M. Williams, claimed the area near the Falls of the Brazos River for their fifth colony, but their contract remained mostly unfulfilled.
		Officials of the colony were Williams H. Steel, commissioner of land titles, and J. Pierson, surveyor general.
		It will be of interest to descendants of Elijah Powers who "joined the Robertson colony in Tennessee and came with General Robertson to old Nashville in 1834", then moved to East Texas in 1835, and came to Falls County, TX in 1844.
	www.forttumbleweed.com /historymarlin.html (3564 words)

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