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OH 0053

About the Interviewee

IntervieweePERRY, H. Grady (b. 1894)
Political PartyDemocrat
Political ServiceTexas House of Representatives

About this oral history

Interview ID #OH 0053
Date(s) of interview -
DescriptionFormer member of the Texas House of Representatives, 1920-22, 1946-50; journalist; brother-in-law to former Governor Coke Stevenson. His experiences in the Thirty-seventh Legislature; comments about former Governors Pat Neff, James and Miriam Ferguson, and Coke Stevenson; comments about former Senator Joe Bailey and Sam Johnson (Lyndon Johnson’s father); Southwest Texas machine politics; meeting with William Jennings Bryan.
Interviewer(s)Fred Gantt, Jr.
Physical Description49 pp.
Terms of UseOpen