American politician, attorney, activist, and educator, best known for her two campaigns for the office of Governor of Texas and for being placed in nomination for the office of Vice President of the United States during the 1972 Democratic National Convention.
Farenthold came from a line of lawyers and judges. Her grandfather, Judge Benjamin D. Tarlton, Sr., served as Chief Justice of the Texas Court of Civil Appeals, a state legislator, professor at the University of Texas School of Law and is the namesake of the University of Texas School of Law Tarlton Law Library. Her father, B. Dudley Tarlton, Jr., was also an attorney.
Farenthold was the third woman whose name was put into nomination for Vice President of the United States at a major party’s nominating convention.
In 1972 and 1974, she unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Governor of Texas. She was defeated both times by Dolph Briscoe of Uvalde, who went on to win the general election each time. In 1973, she was elected as the first chair of the National Women’s Political Caucus. She later served as president of Wells College in Aurora, New York, from 1976 to 1980.
She married George Farenthold (1915–2000) in 1950 and divorced him in 1985. They had five children. Farenthold died from complications caused by Parkinson’s disease on 26 September 2021 at the age of 94 at her home in Houston.
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