In 1920 , redistricting moved Guadalupe County out of Garner 's 15th district , and into the 14th congressional district . Wurzbach ran for Congress in the general election , and unseated the freshman Democratic Representative Carlos Bee of San Antonio , 17,265 ( 55.6 percent ) to 13,777 ( 44.4 percent ) . Reflecting the high rate of immigration and migration to Texas for decades , Wurzbach was the first native Texan to win election as a Republican to Congress . In 1922 , 1924 , and 1926 , Wurzbach won by margins of 54.8 , 62.4 , and 57.2 percent , respectively , the first Republican since Reconstruction to win more than two terms . He won his seat even as the Republican presidential candidates in 1920 and 1924 , Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge , lost the electoral vote of Texas . The Democratic-majority state had supported Democrats for president since the end of Reconstruction and continued to do so into the 1940s . Wurzbach was a delegate to the 1924 Republican National Convention in Cleveland , Ohio , which nominated President Coolidge . But despite the opportunity that Wurzbach 's election gave the Republicans , the national party leaders did not welcome him . They preferred to keep control of patronage jobs to themselves , and worked to undermine him
1924 Republican National Convention
1924 Republican National Convention
Harry M. Wurzbach