Farmers, in particular, disliked the measure, and it was repealed in 1919. In electoral repudiation of President Wilson, who had asked Americans to elect Democratic majorities in Congress, Republicans gain control of the House and the Senate in the November General Election. In the late 1980s it and other regional chambers merge into the Texas Chamber of Commerce. Benjamin R. Bluitt, the first black surgeon in Texas, dies in 1918 in Chicago. Earlier in the year he had moved from Dallas, where he practiced medicine since 1888.
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