[1] Former State Senator William Petit Sebastian of Breckenridge was named the chairman of the new party at an organizing meeting in December 1919.
[4] Ferguson put forward a platform that opposed the League of Nations and votes for women, but also included a number of progressive proposals such as government loans to small farmers, “living wages” for labor, and generous pensions for disabled soldiers.
[5] In that year's gubernatorial election, the party nominated Temple H. McGregor, a former member of the Texas Senate.
Though Ferguson and McGregor were unsuccessful in their respective candidacies, four candidates of the American Party won election to the Texas House of Representatives.
[11] On January 28, 1922, Ferguson dissolved the American Party in order to run for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in the 1922 election.