Feb. 11, 1973:
The National Women's Political Caucus holds its first convention and elects its first chair — Frances "Sissy" Farenthold, a former state representative from Texas who sought that state's Democratic nomination for governor in 1972.
Farenthold finished second in that primary, ahead of the incumbent governor and lieutenant governor. But she tried again in 1974 and got clobbered by Dolph Briscoe, who was elected governor in '72 and cruised to another term two years later.
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