The Amazing Legacy of Annie Webb Blanton

From Stone 46, one of the “FOOTPRINTS OF FAYETTE” on the Courthouse Lawn: “Annie Webb Blanton (1870-1945), a La Grange High School graduate, was the first Texas woman elected to statewide office when she became State Superintendent for Public Instruction in 1918.”Although I worked with and for Debbie Mauldin Cottrell, now president of Texas Lutheran University, for almost a decade, it was only…