Unit 18 Quiz

First African American to be elected to Texas Senate since Reconstruction

• Barbara Jordan
• Kay Bailey Hutchinson
• Sam Rayburn
• Henry B. Gonzalez

Speaker of the House of Representatives for 17 years

• Oveta Culp Hobby
• Sam Rayburn
• Cactus Jack
• Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross

First woman to be a US Senator for Texas

• Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross
• Raymond Telles
• Kay Bailey Hutchinson
• Henry B. Gonzalez

One of the first Hispanics to be elected to the House of Representatives

• James Baker III
• John Nance Garner
• Kay Bailey Hutchinson
• Henry B. Gonzalez

Chief of Staff for President Reagan and Bush

• James Baker III
• Barbara Jordan
• Raymond Telles
• Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross

VP for Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Barbara Jordan
• John Nance Garner
• James Baker III
• Kay Bailey Hutchinson

What was John Nance Garner's nickname?

• Oveta Culp Hobby
• Raymond Telles
• Cactus Jack
• Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross

Civil War Confederate General

• Oveta Culp Hobby
• Raymond Telles
• Raul Gonzalez Jr.
• Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross

"Saved" Cynthia Ann Parker from the Comanches

• Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross
• Oveta Culp Hobby
• Raymond Telles
• Kay Bailey Hutchinson

First Secretary of the Department of Health

• Kay Bailey Hutchinson
• Oveta Culp Hobby
• Henry B. Gonzalez
• Raymond Telles