With FDR’s death, the cracks in some political alliances began to show. Senators and Representatives had to pursue reelection in a climate where some issues placed local interests in direct opposition to national interests. One of these issues was the Tidelands Controversy.   Beginning with California in 1946, the Federal Government sought to gain possession of coastal states’ tidelands in order to profit from oil leases.  Working with other members of Congress, Johnson would fight for Texas and other states’ right to control their tidelands.  Texas was the only state that had entered the Union as an independent nation, whose borders extended three leagues beyond its shore.  This land was considered property of the state of Texas, and the state used money earned from oil leases for public school funding. To learn more about Texas and the Tideland Controversy read this article from the The Texas State Historical Association’s The Handbook of Texas Online.  The image shown above is entitled “Tidelands Drilling” and can be found in the Prints and Photographs collection at the Briscoe Center for American History.
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With FDR’s death, the cracks in some political alliances began to show. Senators and Representatives had to pursue reelection in a climate where some issues placed local interests in direct opposition to national interests. One of these issues was the Tidelands Controversy.  

Beginning with California in 1946, the Federal Government sought to gain possession of coastal states’ tidelands in order to profit from oil leases.  Working with other members of Congress, Johnson would fight for Texas and other states’ right to control their tidelands.  

Texas was the only state that had entered the Union as an independent nation, whose borders extended three leagues beyond its shore.  This land was considered property of the state of Texas, and the state used money earned from oil leases for public school funding.

To learn more about Texas and the Tideland Controversy read this article from the The Texas State Historical Association’s The Handbook of Texas Online.  

The image shown above is entitled “Tidelands Drilling” and can be found in the Prints and Photographs collection at the Briscoe Center for American History.

Source: cah.utexas.edu

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