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Aug 1, 1995 · Connally, John Bowden, Jr. (1917–1993). John Bowden Connally, Jr., 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. He attended Harlandale High School in San Antonio, graduated from Floresville High School, and ...
Jun 16, 1993 · John B. Connally, the former Governor of Texas who served in two Presidential Administrations and who was wounded when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, died yesterday at Methodist ...
Today John Connally, 69, and Ben Barnes, 48—the two most able Texas politicians since Lyndon Johnson—are under siege. Lenders have declared them in default on more than $60 million in loans.
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.
Connally denied any tie to vote fraud, but acknowledged that he had learned a lesson in managing LBJ's unsuccessful 1941 race for the Senate, when Johnson's seemingly decisive 5,000-vote lead had been whittled away by late election returns from East Texas. LBJ lost the 1941 race by 1,311 votes.
More Than Myth. 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 ...
By Ann Crawford and Jack Keever. 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 ...
