Don Yarborough
Politician
1925 – 2009
Who was Don Yarborough?
Donald Howard Yarborough, known as Don Yarborough, was a liberal Democratic politician who was reportedly the first Southern politician to endorse the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yarborough, an attorney in Houston, Texas, ran for governor of Texas in 1962, 1964, and 1968. In 1962, he came very close to winning the primary runoff election against John B. Connally, Jr., having polled 49 percent of the ballots. Other intraparty rivals, considered conservatives, included the state attorney general, Will Wilson, highway commissioner Marshall Formby, and General Edwin A. Walker, who made anticommunism the centerpiece of his race. The Republican gubernatorial nominee, Jack Cox, an oil equipment executive from Houston, was also a strong conservative and a former Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives.
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- Born
- Dec 15, 1925
New Orleans - Religion
- Anglicanism
- Episcopal Church
- Profession
- Education
- University of Texas at Austin
- Died
- Sep 23, 2009
Houston
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on July 23, 2013
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