Ann Richards
Dorothy Ann Richards ( born September 1, 1933, Lakeview, Texas, † September 13, 2006 in Austin, Texas) was an American politician of the Democratic Party in Texas.
Short Biography
Richards grew up in Waco, Texas and attended until 1950, the Waco High School. She then studied Bachelor at Baylor University. She married her school love David Richards and moved to Austin, Texas, where she received the permission to teach at the University of Texas. David and Ann Richards have four children: Cecile, Daniel, Clark and Ellen. From 1955 to 1956 she also taught history at Fulmore Junior High School in Austin.
In 1989 she wrote her autobiography Straight from the Heart.
From 1991 to 1995 she was governor of Texas and was replaced in the race for the re-election of the later U.S. President George W. Bush. Richards was the second woman in Texas at this post ( Miriam A. Ferguson was from 1925 to 1927 and from 1933 to 1935, the first woman to hold this office).
In March 2006 it was announced that she was suffering from esophageal cancer, which she died at the age of 73 years.
In the media
- In Oliver Stone's biographical film about the life of George W. Bush ' also appears on Richards.
- In the documentary about the execution of the most likely innocent Johnny Garrett in Texas, The Last Word (2008), the role of the then Governor Richards is mentioned. Here, Richards, the execution could have stopped as governor, made serious allegations.