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- ↑ "Texas Register - The Portal to Texas History". Texinfo.library.unt.edu. January 6, 1976. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ↑ Ramsey, Ross (September 26, 2018). "Analysis: Texas politics can change plenty in 2018 without a blue wave". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
- ↑ "Karl Rove writes that Democrats abolished state treasurer's office after she won it and she later became senator | PolitiFact Texas". Politifact.com. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ↑ "Texas Says Goodbye to Treasury". The New York Times. Associated Press. August 31, 1996. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved August 23, 2020.
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