Texas
Texas's districts were redrawn after the 2000 census for the 108th Congress and again in 2003 for the 109th Congress (see 2003 Texas redistricting). On August 4, 2006, the map changed again because the 23rd district and its surrounding districts had to be redrawn for the 110th Congress.
- At-large seat: 1873–1875, 1913–1919, 1933–1935, 1953–1959, 1963–1967 (obsolete)
- 1st district: 1845–present
- 2nd district: 1845–present
- 3rd district: 1863–present
- 4th district: 1863–present
- 5th district: 1875–present
- 6th district: 1875–present
- 7th district: 1883–present
- 8th district: 1883–present
- 9th district: 1883–present
- 10th district: 1883–present
- 11th district: 1883–present
- 12th district: 1893–present
- 13th district: 1893–present
- 14th district: 1903–present
- 15th district: 1903–present
- 16th district: 1903–present
- 17th district: 1919–present
- 18th district: 1919–present
- 19th district: 1935–present
- 20th district: 1935–present
- 21st district: 1935–present
- 22nd district: 1959–present
- 23rd district: 1967–present
- 24th district: 1973–present
- 25th district: 1983–present
- 26th district: 1983–present
- 27th district: 1983–present
- 28th district: 1993–present
- 29th district: 1993–present
- 30th district: 1993–present
- 31st district: 2003–present
- 32nd district: 2003–present
- 33rd district: 2013–present
- 34th district: 2013–present
- 35th district: 2013–present
- 36th district: 2013–present
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Famous quotes containing the word texas:
“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“Worn down by the hoofs of millions of half-wild Texas cattle driven along it to the railheads in Kansas, the trail was a bare, brown, dusty strip hundreds of miles long, lined with the bleaching bones of longhorns and cow ponies. Here and there a broken-down chuck wagon or a small mound marking the grave of some cowhand buried by his partners “on the lone prairie” gave evidence to the hardships of the journey.”
—For the State of Kansas, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“During the cattle drives, Texas cowboy music came into national significance. Its practical purpose is well known—it was used primarily to keep the herds quiet at night, for often a ballad sung loudly and continuously enough might prevent a stampede. However, the cowboy also sang because he liked to sing.... In this music of the range and trail is “the grayness of the prairies, the mournful minor note of a Texas norther, and a rhythm that fits the gait of the cowboy’s pony.””
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)