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LAWSON, William J. (b. ca. 1900)

Political ServiceSecretary of State for Texas, Executive Assistant to Governor W. Lee O’Daniel

Oral Histories

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His associations with the administration of Governor W. Lee O’Daniel; appointment as executive assistant to O’Daniel, 1941; personal impressions of O’Daniel; transactions tax; relations between O’Daniel and the Legislature; O’Daniel and the Democratic State Executive Committee; O’Daniel and patronage; appointment as Secretary of State for Texas, 1941; O’Daniel senatorial campaign, 1941.
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