Former member of the Texas House of Representatives, Speaker of the House, lieutenant governor, and governor of Texas, 1941-46. Forty-first Legislature; prison reform; administration of Governor Ross Sterling; views on the role of the Speaker of the House in the legislative process; impressions of Governor Miriam Ferguson; Forty-second Legislature; election as Speaker of the House; Texas social legislation and the New Deal; comments about Governor James Allred; election as lieutenant governor in 1938; O’Daniel gubernatorial campaign of 1938; highway financing; views on the governor’s role in the legislative process; election as governor, 1942; press relationships; wartime governor; presidential election of 1944; the white primary and the Smith v. Allwright Case; comments about Franklin Roosevelt; Forty-ninth Legislature; Rainey controversy; views on the office of governor; personal life and family background; meeting with William Jennings Bryan.