A medical illustrator from Dallas who spends his days drawing body parts and molecular structures has won The Chronicle‘s George W. Bush Presidential Library design contest. A medical illustrator from ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Perhaps no modern-day contest for governor was as colorful as the year a popular Austinite and a West Texas businessman went head-to-head 28 years ago, seeking Texas’ highest elected ...

AUSTIN, Sept. 18 -- -- AUSTIN, Sept. 18 -- Former governor Ann W. Richards, modern-day Texas's most famous Democrat, whose 1994 reelection loss to George W. Bush ignited his political career, was ...

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Ann Richards is best remembered for her skewering of George H.W. Bush at the 1988 Democratic National Convention (“Poor George. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth”), and later — somewhat ...

Ann Richards was as big as Texas. The former governor, known for her white hair, power suits and sharp wit, left an indelible mark on politics and pop culture. She famously roasted President George ...

In July 1992, a Texas Monthly cover story touted then-Governor Ann Richards as presidential material. At a time when Democrats thought they’d conceded the 1992 presidential election by nominating a ...