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Jun 16, 1993 · John B. Connally Jr., 76, the former Texas governor and U.S. Treasury secretary whose personal life and political career were as freewheeling and outsized as his native Lone Star State, died...
John Bowden Connally Jr. (February 27, 1917 – June 15, 1993) was an American politician who served as the 39th governor of Texas (1963–1969) and as the 61st United States Secretary of the Treasury (1971–1972). He began his career as a Democrat and later became a Republican in 1973.
John Bowden Connally, Jr. (1917-1993), thirty-eighth governor of the state of Texas, was born on a farm near Floresville, Texas, on February 27, 1917, one of eight children of John Bowden and Lela (Wright) Connally, Sr.
Jun 15, 1991 · Governor John Connally served as a three-term governor of the state of Texas. He discussed his years as a staffer and confidant to President Johnson and the controversial decision to name...
John Bowden Connally, Jr., was the personification of Texas power and influence—a piece of living political history. As a young man, he was Lyndon Johnson’s closest aide.
John Connally recognized that the Texas stereotype wasn’t good enough. That was his real legacy. In Connally's eyes, Texas' obsession with its mythic past kept it stagnant and...
When John Connally came to Texas in 1961 to discuss with Texas Democratic leaders the possibility of running for governor, he stepped off the airplane wearing a black pin-striped suit, a black ...
