Governor William Pettus Hobby signs a resolution giving women voting rights on the same terms as men, Austin, February 5, 1919. Prints and Photographs Collection, William Pettus Hobby file, The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin; CN 01024. This resolution went before the public for approval as a constitutional amendment on May 24, 1919, but because it also called for the disfranchisement of noncitizens--who, unlike Texas women, could vote in general elections as well as in primaries--a turnout of alien voters opposed to the measure helped to defeat it.