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THOMAS, Lera Millard (1900-1993)

Democrat of Texas

8th congressional district

Served in House 1965-1967

Total roll-call votes cast: 118

Note: This member has cast relatively few votes and so their ideological score may be unstable or inaccurate. Members who have cast at least 100 votes have more reliable scores.

Biography

Representative from Texas; born Lera Millard, August 3, 1900, in Nacogdoches, Tex.; attended Brenau College, Gainesville, Ga., and the University of Alabama; member of the Houston League of Women Voters; first woman elected to Congress from the State of Texas; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Albert Thomas, and served from March 26, 1966, until January 3, 1967; was not a candidate for renomination; special liaison for the Houston Chronicle to members of the armed services in Vietnam, 1968; was a resident of Nacogdoches, Tex., until her death there on July 23, 1993; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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