Yarborough, Richard W.

Son of Senator Ralph and Opal Yarborough, Richard W. "Dick" Yarborough (1931-1986) graduated from the University of Texas at Austin (UT) with a bachelor's degree in anthropology in 1953 and a law degree in 1955.

Upon graduation from the UT Law School, he served in Germany with the U.S. Army for two years, and in 1956 he married Ann Graham McJimsey, with whom he had three children: Claire McJimsey, Elizabeth Warren, and Jefferson Buchanan. After returning to Austin, he practiced law for two years, before working for his father in the U.S. Senate as a legislative assistant and committee counsel from 1958 to 1967.

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