Lawyer who ran for Texas governor 3 times has died

[Heidi]

Source: Dallas Morning News

09/23/2009


Donald Yarborough, a Houston lawyer who ran unsuccessfully for Texas governor three times in the 1960s, died Wednesday. He was 83.

His daughter, Sophie Yarborough, said Yarborough had suffered from Parkinson's disease for many years.

Yarborough, a liberal Democrat, was born in New Orleans in 1925. Yarborough first ran for lieutenant governor in 1960, then made his first run for governor against three-time incumbent Price Daniel and John Connally in 1962. Connally won in 1962, and was wounded during the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas the next year.

Connally's hero status after that stymied Yarborough's second attempt in 1964, and in 1968, he lost the Democratic primary to Preston Smith.

"Don was a true-blue liberal championing civil rights, women's equality and all of the most progressive policies of the time," Sophie Yarborough said in a statement.



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[MichaelHarris]

1. He was

a very cool guy, a friend of organized labor.