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Texas History Minute came to serve on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, becoming its chair in 1941. He supported President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s efforts to help arm the Allies as they fought against the Axis Powers. America could not afford to shy way from the demands of a dangerous world. Connally’s role as Foreign Relations Chair proved to be invaluable as the nation worked with nations across the globe during World War II. Dr. Ken Bridges As World War II neared an end, Connally supported new American Dr. Bridges is a Texas native, writer, and history professor. He leadership in world affairs following the war. Roosevelt can be reached at himself had supported the drkenbridges@gmail.com. American entry into the League of Nations years before and now The twentieth century transformed supported a new organization the United States from a moderate similarly dedicated to peace and justice among the nations of the power only loosely involved in world. Roosevelt had referred to world affairs into a superpower the Allies as “the United Nations” where most questions of foreign since the United Nations relations revolved around Declaration in 1942 and pushed American goals and intentions. for the creation of a formal Much of this transition began taking place during the period just organization that united the before and just after World War II. world’s countries. Numerous treaties were ratified, Connally was a natural choice to planning was required, and many discussions took place in the U. S. serve as a delegate, one of 850 from 51 nations. He met with Senate. An important part of this delegates gathering in San work in creating a global role for the United States came from a one- Francisco, California, from other nations to form the United Nations time, small-town attorney from in April 1945. He was named McLennan County, Texas. vice-chairman of the Conference Thomas Terry Connally was born on International Organization that formally created the UN. He on a farm near the small community of Hewitt in McLennan served as a representative to the County in August 1877, just after first UN conference in London later that year and the second UN the end of Reconstruction. He graduated from Baylor University conference in 1946 in New York, in 1896 at age 19 and earned a law which later became its permanent headquarters. He also helped the degree from the University of Texas in 1898. Immediately after UN begin expanding beyond the graduation, he enlisted in the army initial World War II allies in 1946 by securing the admission of to fight in the Spanish-American Afghanistan, Iceland, and Sweden War. He believed in the role that America must play in world affairs, to the assembly. but in the meantime, moved to Marlin in Falls County to set up a Connally won re-election in 1946. Nationally, the Democrats lost law practice. their majority in the Senate in light of President Harry S. Truman’s After respected terms in the state unpopularity. Connally lost his legislature and as Falls County chairmanship of the Foreign Prosecuting Attorney, he was Relations Committee but stayed on elected to Congress in 1916. the committee. He took back the America entered World War I in chairmanship when Democrats 1917, and Connally, at age 40, briefly resigned from Congress to regained the Senate in 1948. With join the army once again. After his the Cold War with the Soviet Union deteriorating, a new treaty return, he was put on the House Foreign Affairs Committee where appeared before the committee that would also have lasting he actively supported President Woodrow Wilson’s leadership on repercussions. the world stage and plans for American entry into the League of The North Atlantic Treaty allied Nations, an organization dedicated the United States and eleven other to world peace founded by Wilson. nations into the North Atlantic Because of bitterly divisions over Treaty Organization. Connally the League, American entry failed. pushed its approval through committee, and it was ratified in the Senate in July 1949 by a vote Connally was elected to the U. S. of 82 to 13. NATO would be the Senate in 1928. He eventually
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first permanent alliance that the United States had entered into since it allied with France during the American Revolution. NATO became the cornerstone of America’s defense against any communist expansion in Europe during the decades-long Cold War.
organizing for the latest war. Connally also openly defended Truman’s controversial firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1951 for publicly criticizing him.
Connally decided not to seek reelection in 1952. After his retirement, he remained in Washington; and though 75 years America’s commitments abroad faced another test with the outbreak old, he opened a law firm. He died in October 1963. He died in a of the Korean War in 1950. world that now looked to America Connally’s committee helped for leadership to defend the free provide Truman with the congressional support he needed in world.
Howe ISD Substitute Training Howe ISD is currently accepting applications for substitute positions for the 2017-18 school year. To be eligible for substitute placement, applicants must:
being placed on the district’s substitute list. All applicants must provide the following:
All applicants who meet the above criteria are required to attend a mandatory training on Thursday, August 10th at 9:00 am in the Howe Elementary School before
You may contact Pauli Stephens at 903-532-3204 for additional information. Application forms will be provided at training.
• Two forms of identification (i.e. Driver’s license, social • Be at least 18 years old. security card) • Have a high school diploma or • Completed substitute packet equivalent. (packets given at training)
