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Indomitable Sarah

The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes

Av Darwin Payne

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Judge Sarah T. Hughes is perhaps best remembered as the woman who swore in Lyndon Johnson as president aboard Air Force One on November 22, 1963, after President John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. But long before then, she had been making headlines as the foremost woman Democrat in Texas. In 1935, over the protests of a local senator who said she should be home washing dishes, Sarah T. Hughes was appointed the first woman district judge in Texas. She was nominated for vice president of the United States at the 1952 Democratic National Convention, and in 1961 she was nominated by President John F. Kennedy as a federal district judge. A feminist who devoted her life to liberal causes, she presided over the three-judge panel and wrote the opinion that overturned Texas’s abortion laws in 1970 in Roe v. Wade, a decision upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, a decision that has rocked American society and politics to this day.
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Darwin Payne, professor emeritus of communications at Southern Methodist University, has published biographies of Frederick Lewis Allen and Owen Wister as well as many other books. He holds a Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently working on a biography of Erik Jonsson, a founder of Texas Instruments and former mayor of Dallas.

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"If you want to know how awesome Sarah T. Hughes was, she passed a state income tax through the Texas House of Representatives in 1932, something no one has done before or since. Darwin Payne gives us a full account of her decades-long struggles against racism, sexism, poverty and injustice. We are lucky to have this splendid account of one of Texas's greatest freedom fighters." - Molly Ivins; "A terrific saga of an extraordinary woman and of an era in Texas politics that no longer exists. Sarah T. Hughes would have been the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court had she been ten years younger." - Congressman Martin Frost"

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