L. B. Kubiak

Who is L. B. Kubiak?

L. B. Kubiak is a veterinarian in Austin, Texas, who served as a Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives from District 13 from 1983 to 1991. He resides in Rockdale in Milam County. Kubiak's House tenure was preceded and succeeded by that of his older brother, the late Dan Kubiak, a former educator and businessman, also from Rockdale.

Kubiak was born to a Roman Catholic couple, John T. Kubiak, a farmer and garage owner, and the former Connie M. Snider, east of rural Reagan, Texas. There he attended elementary school until 1955, when his family relocated to Rockdale. Thereafter, he graduated in 1963 from Rockdale High School, where he was active in all sports. He received his D.V.M. from Texas A&M University in College Station.

Kubiak entered the state House when his brother ran instead, unsuccessfully, for Texas land commissioner in the 1982 Democratic primary. L. B. Kubiak did not run for reelection to the House in 1990 so that Dan Kubiak could again seek the seat, which he had filled previously from 1969 to 1983. When his brother died in office in 1998 while campaigning for reelection to the Texas House in District 17, Kubiak, with the encouragement of Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives Pete Laney, sought to become the replacement Democratic nominee. Instead the Democratic county chairmen in the district nominated Teddy Boehm, a woman from Brenham in Washington County in the southern portion of the district and the wife of a former trustee president of Blinn College. Kubiak not only refused to support Boehm for the position but endorsed the successful Republican nominee, Charles B. Jones of College Station. According to the Austin American-Statesman, quoted in "The Kubiak Factor" from the Kubiak genealogy information, Mrs. Boehm questioned L. B. Kubiak's endorsement of her opponent: "I do wonder if Mr. Jones is such a supporter of Mr. [Dan] Kubiak's principles, why was he running against him?"