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Name: Ann Willis Richards
Birth Date: September 3, 1933
Place of Birth: Lakeview, Texas, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: U.S. state governor

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Biography of Ann Willis Richards
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Ann Willis Richards (born 1933) was elected Democratic governor of Texas in 1990, the second woman ever to hold that position in the state's history. Ann Willis Richards was born in a one bedroom frame house in Lakeview, Texas, located eight miles from...


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Dorothy Ann Willis Richards ( September 1 , 1933 – September 13 , 2006 ) was an American politician from Texas . She first came to national attention as the witty keynote speaker at the 1988 Democratic National Convention . Considered the first woman...


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This article is about the American politician/teacher, for the Australian-American actress, see Ann Richards (actress). For the American jazz singer, see Ann Richards...


News and Journals
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Chicago Defender
Remembering Gov.Ann Richards
09/28/2006: 768 words, approx. 3 pages
"Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels." This line was part of Ann Richards's keynote address to the 1988 Democratic National Convention, and it was one of many pieces of her speech that had...
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The Economist (US)
Ann Richards.(Ann Richards, governor of Texas)(Obituary)
09/30/2006: 907 words, approx. 3 pages
Ann Richards, governor of Texas, died on September 13th, aged 73 NOT much about Texas is becoming or demure. The coast is muddy and malarial; the west, seen from the air, is an immense brown mat of desert; the centre is scrubland...
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The New York Observer
Morning Read: September 14, 2006
9/14/2006: 338 words, approx. 1 pages
raises the curtain on Cuomo vs. Pirro, which promises to be the most entertaining, if not the ugliest, race of the general election. We even get a "cackle" from Cuomo. The News calls his smile "unsinkable." John Faso visited all five boroughs of New...
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The New York Observer
Picturegate Inspires No Media Outrage
1/29/2006: 810 words, approx. 3 pages
The White House possesses several photographs of George W. Bush with Jack Abramoff, the once-powerful Republican fixer who recently pled guilty to bribery and fraud. The snapshots show nothing more than the typical “grip-and-grin” that the President has politely bestowed on thousands of visitors—or so...
 


 

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