Public relations executive, executive director of the Texas Good Roads Association. His experiences as press secretary and appointments secretary to former Governors Beauford Jester, 1947-50, and Allan Shivers, 1950-57; head of the Texas Employment…
Geologist, independent oilman, former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Midland, Republican. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixtieth Texas Legislature. Business career; decision to enter politics; experiences…
Attorney, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Corpus Christi, Democrat. His experiences from his career as a member of the Texas Legislature (1939-40; 1953-62; 1964-67). Biographical information and decision to enter politics;…
Attorney. His experiences as private secretary to Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, 1925-27, 1933-35; his relationship with James E. Ferguson; comments about Governors Pat Neff, Dan Moody, James Allred, W. Lee O’Daniel, and Coke Stevenson; Johnson-…
Insurance executive, former chair of the Texas State Board of Insurance, 1963-68; chairman of the Johnson-Humphrey campaign in Texas. Comments on the evolution of the State board of Insurance; insurance scandals of the mid-1950s; fire and casualty…
Farmer, oilman, former state legislator. His personal experiences as a member of the House and Senate of Texas for thirty-four years, 1930-64. Delegate to Democratic National Convention in Houston, 1928; comments about Governors W. Lee O’Daniel,…
Attorney for the Receiver (State Insurance Board). His experiences during the Texas insurance scandals of the mid-1950s. James Allred’s gubernatorial campaigns; early insurance litigation; appointment as assistant state attorney general, 1953; state…
Former state senator, lieutenant governor, and governor of Texas, 1950-57. Observations on political career of Lyndon Johnson; Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948; Stevenson-Eisenhower presidential campaign of 1952; Johnson presidential race…
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Special Session of the Sixtieth Legislature. Revenue legislation; reform of liquor laws; changes in House rules.
Attorney, former Sergeant-at-Arms of the Texas House of Representatives, public speaker, nephew of former Governor Coke Stevenson. His experiences as Sergeant-at-Arms, 1949-53; Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948; comments about Coke Stevenson.
College professor. His experiences as a member of the faculty advisory committee that was responsible for the selection of John Kamerick as president of North Texas State University.
College administrator. His experiences as a member of the faculty advisory committee that was responsible for the selection of John Kamerick as president of North Texas State University.
Dairyman, former Mayor of Dallas, former member of the United States House of Representatives. Early family history; rise of Cabell Brothers in the dairy business; Mayor of Dallas, 1961-65; Kennedy assassination; U.S. House of Representatives, 1965-…
Oilman. His career in the oil industry; Board of Regents, University of Texas. Rainey controversy; government service during World War II; political philosophy and activities.
Realtor, farmer. Family background, including founding of Brooks Dairy by his father; his early experiences on the farm and in Brooks Dairy; personal managerial experiences in dairy business; obtaining milk accounts with Denton public schools,…
Dallas county agricultural agent, Dallas, Texas. Description of father’s farming and livestock operation, Tarrant County, Texas; employment as teacher in Tarrant, Collin, and Hood Counties; experiences attending North Texas State Normal College,…
