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Donald Howard Yarborough (December 15, 1925 – September 23, 2009) was an American Democratic politician who was among the first in the U.S. South to endorse the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yarborough, an attorney in Houston, Texas, ran for governor of Texas in 1962, 1964, and 1968.
Sep 24, 2009 · Don Yarborough, a liberal Texas Democrat whose stiff challenge to John B. Connally Jr. in the primary race for governor in 1962 exposed political tensions that John F. Kennedy hoped to smooth...
Donald Burt Yarbrough (born August 5, 1941 in Dallas, Texas) served as a justice of the Texas Supreme Court until being forced to resign on charges of crimes for which he later spent six years in prison. Yarbrough ran for the Texas Supreme Court in 1976 claiming that God wanted him to run for that office. Yarbrough defeated a well-respected ...
A historical account of Don Yarborough, a liberal Democrat who ran for governor of Texas in the early sixties and faced a challenge from John Tower, a conservative senator. The article explains how Yarborough's candidacy influenced the Kennedy-Johnson ticket and the state's politics.
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Sep 22, 2009 · Donald Yarborough, whose feud with John Connally brought JFK to Texas, reported gravely ill. By Paul Burka. September 22, 20090. This writeup was sent by one of his daughters, Sophie...
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In 1975 the group started Sunday morning services. They became acquainted with Don Yarborough through his wife Jackie (Jackie attended Fisherman’s Wharf when she was a student at Hartwick College.) After the Yarborough’s arrival on October 20, 1976, the small congregation rented the Knights of Columbus building on Grove Street.
This footage from 1964 features six political telecasts for the unsuccessful Texas gubernatorial campaign of Independent candidate Don Yarborough. In the telecasts, he attacks his opponent for refusing public debate, fights for a park on Padre Island, and stresses that Texas wants a governor who is not influenced by Washington politics and will ...
