The Reforms of Beauford Halbert Jester's Administration, 1947-1949 Page: 4
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during the regular session the Fifty-first Legislature
failed to appropriate funds for improvements in the
state eleemosynary institutions which Jester strongly
advocated. After Jester died his successor called a
special session to pass a tax bill to finance the
eleemosynary improvements.
The label "progressive" rests uneasily on the head
of a man as cautious and fiscally conservative as Jester.
Yet, believing that in order to maintain states' rights
the states must fulfill their responsibilities to their
citizens, Jester set a moderately progressive course that
fit the conservative milieu that characterized Texas in
the 1940s. Ironically, the conservative business com-
munity that bitterly opposed Jester's 1946 opponent,
Homer Price Rainey, allowed one of their own to accomplish
some of the same programs that Rainey advocated.
Jester's papers in the Texas State Archives, Austin,
provided the main source for this study. Other important
sources included Rainey's papers at the University of
Missouri and the oral history collections at North Texas
State University, Denton, and East Texas State University,
Commerce.
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Lowe, Billie Lynne. The Reforms of Beauford Halbert Jester's Administration, 1947-1949, dissertation, May 1984; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330891/m1/4/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .