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| Name | Frances "Sissy" T. Farenthold |
| Address |
Corpus Christi, Texas , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
October 02, 1926
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| Died | September 26, 2021
(94 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | David
Sep 26, 2021 10:35pm |
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| Info | Frances "Sissy" Tarlton Farenthold
Elected to the Texas House of Representatives from District 45-1 in 1968 and 1970.
•Originally from Corpus Christi
•B.A. from Vassar College
•Law degree, U.T., where she was one three women in her law school class of over 800
•Hired in 1976 as President of Wells College in New York to solve the college’s severe financial problems.
She succeeded by balancing the budget, expanding enrollment, and presiding over the drilling of a natural gas well that supplied energy for the college’s main dining room
•Created the Public Leadership Network, a consortium of five women’s colleges that has now grown to
include 15 institutions
•Adjunct professor at Univ. of Houston Law Center
•Distinguished visiting professor at Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law
•Director of Legal Aid Services in Nueces County (Corpus Christi), she was twice elected to the Texas
House, representing Kleberg and Nueces Counties
•During her terms in the House, she was a member of the “Dirty Thirty,” fighting corruption and scandals
that rocked the Texas Legislature then
•Candidate in 1972 for Governor of Texas in the Democratic primary, receiving 48% of the vote. “It
was her example of public service during this time, that inspired many of us, including me,” said Moroney, “to join her in her efforts to bring about better government in the state of Texas.”
•Delegate in 1972 to the Democratic National Convention, receiving over 400 votes for Vice Presidential nominee and coming in second to
Thomas Eagleton
•Soon after that convention, Farenthold was a founding member of the National Women’s Political
Caucus
•Involved in public affairs and human rights at the local, state, national, and international levels, meeting
with the President of the U.N. Security Council in 1991 and in 1985 in Geneva with Mikhail Gorbachev
•Participated in five international conferences in New York, sponsored largely by NGOs (non-governmental
organizations) in the United Nations on women’s rights, human rights, disarmament, and the environment. She has been a delegate to NGO forums of the U.N. in Vienna, Rio, and Nairobi. She has testified before four committees of the U. S. House, lobbied members of the Executive branch, and has been a human rights observer in Iraq, El Salvador, Honduras, South Korea, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Cuba, and the USSR
•Moderated Rothko Chapel Human Rights Award news conference, featuring Nelson Mandela and Jimmy Carter
•Chair, Board of Directors, Rothko Chapel
•Recipient of the Lyndon B. Johnson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Democratic Party; Houston Peace & Justice Award for National
and International Service; Texas Human Rights Foundation Award; Yale University “Women in Public Life” Award; the Jane Addams Peace Award of
the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; and the Shattered Glass Award from Texas Women’s Political Caucus.
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