On June 18, 1885, 34 new graduates of the two-year-old University of Texas organized the UT Alumni Association, later renamed The Ex-Students’ Association. The Association was an extension of the University, but the events of 1917 changed that, when Will C. Hogg led alumni in opposing Gov. Jim Ferguson, who vetoed the University’s appropriation bill. Ferguson was impeached in 1917 and two years later the Association separated itself from the University