Maverick, Maury, 1921-2003

San Antonio, Texas attorney.

From the description of Joseph H. Barnard reinterment papers, 1979-1982. (Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library). WorldCat record id: 310355842

Born Fontaine Maury Maverick; lawyer, of San Antonio, Tex.

From the description of Joseph H. Barnard reinterment papers, 1979-1982. (Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library). WorldCat record id: 70962721

Maury Maverick, Jr. was born in San Antonio, Texas, on 1921 January 3, the son of Democratic Congressman Fontaine Maury Maverick (1895-1954) and Terrell Louise Dobbs (1901-1994). His great-grandfather Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803-1870) signed the Texas Declaration of Independence; his paternal grandparents were Albert and Jane Lewis Maury Maverick. After graduating from the Texas Military Institute (1938) and receiving a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Texas at Austin (1942), Maverick served in the U.S. Marines during World War II, rising to the rank of major. He attended Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California, and in 1949 received a law degree from St. Mary's University in San Antonio

Influenced by his father, Maverick began a career in politics. He represented San Antonio as a liberal Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives from 1951 to 1957. During his three terms, Maverick contested Jim Crow laws, supported labor unions, and derailed an effort by the legislature to extend the death penalty to Communist Party members. In 1960, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Lyndon B. Johnson.

Disgusted with politics, Maverick focused on his law career and specialized in civil rights, civil liberties, and pro bono cases. He represented civil rights protestors, communists, and atheists; won a Supreme Court case against the FBI's seizure of publications from a Texas bookstore on charges that they were seditious ( Stanford v. Texas ); and during the Vietnam War defended conscientious objectors and draft protestors. An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, he also served as co-chair of its national advisory council. In 1991, the American Bar Association presented him with the John Minor Wisdom Public Interest and Professional Award for his handling of more than 300 pro bono cases.

In addition to his law practice, Maverick taught political science at St. Mary's University and Incarnate Word College, both in San Antonio. In 1980, he became a columnist for the San Antonio Express-News .

Maury Maverick married Julia Orynski, an artist from Dallas, on 1966 December 25; the couple had no children. Maverick died in San Antonio on 2003 January 28 at the age of eighty-two.

References

Maury Maverick, Jr. biographical file, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library, San Antonio, Texas.

Express-News (San Antonio, Texas). Obituary of Maury Maverick, Jr. 2003 January 30.

From the guide to the Maury Maverick, Jr. Research Papers Col 10841 ., 1857-1964, (Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library at the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas)

Maury Maverick, Jr. was born in San Antonio, Texas, on 1921 January 3, the son of Democratic Congressman Fontaine Maury Maverick (1895-1954) and Terrell Louise Dobbs (1901-1994). His great-grandfather Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803-1870) signed the Texas Declaration of Independence; his paternal grandparents were Albert and Jane Lewis Maury Maverick. After graduating from the Texas Military Institute (1938) and receiving a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Texas at Austin (1942), Maverick served in the U.S. Marines during World War II, rising to the rank of major. He attended Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California, and in 1949 received a law degree from St. Mary's University in San Antonio.

Influenced by his father, Maverick began a career in politics. He represented San Antonio as a liberal Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives from 1951 to 1957. During his three terms, Maverick contested Jim Crow laws, supported labor unions, and derailed an effort by the legislature to extend the death penalty to Communist Party members. In 1960, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Lyndon B. Johnson.

Disgusted with politics, Maverick focused on his law career and specialized in civil rights, civil liberties, and pro bono cases. He represented civil rights protestors, communists, and atheists; won a Supreme Court case against the FBI's seizure of publications from a Texas bookstore on charges that they were seditious ( Stanford v. Texas ); and during the Vietnam War defended conscientious objectors and draft protestors. An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, he also served as co-chair of its national advisory council. In 1991, the American Bar Association presented him with the John Minor Wisdom Public Interest and Professional Award for his handling of more than 300 pro bono cases.

In addition to his law practice, Maverick taught political science at St. Mary's University and Incarnate Word College, both in San Antonio. In 1980, he became a columnist for the San Antonio Express-News .

Maury Maverick married Julia Orynski, an artist from Dallas, on 1966 December 25; the couple had no children. Maverick died in San Antonio on 2003 January 28 at the age of eighty-two.

References

Maury Maverick, Jr. biographical file, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library, San Antonio, Texas.

Express-News (San Antonio, Texas). Obituary of Maury Maverick, Jr. 2003 January 30.

From the guide to the Maury Maverick, Jr. Papers on the Reinterment of Joseph H. Barnard Doc 6159 ., 1979-1982, (Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library at the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas)

Maury Maverick, Jr. (1921-2003) was a San Antonio attorney, columnist, activist, and former Texas legislator. The son of New Deal Congressman and San Antonio mayor Maury Maverick, Sr., Maverick attended the Texas Military Institute (1935-1938) and the University of Texas, earning his B.A. in 1942. During the Second World War, he served with the Marine Corps in the South Pacific. In 1949, he completed his law degree at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio.

A three-term member of the Texas House of Representatives (1950-1956), Maverick championed labor and civil rights. He opposed anti-Communist legislation and was a member of the so-called, Gashouse Gang,a caucus of thirty-five legislators that sought to impose a gathering tax on natural gas in Texas. In 1961, he came in fifth out of seventy-one candidates vying to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Lyndon B. Johnson. Maverick served three terms as a State Democratic Committeeman, and he attended the 1968 National Democratic Convention as chief legal counsel for the group of Democrats challenging presumptive nominee Hubert Humphrey.

As an attorney, Maverick specialized in civil rights cases, often working pro bono for the American Civil Liberties Union. On a number of occasions, Maverick argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, including the landmark case Stanford v. Texas (1965), which affirmed that individual states are required to adhere to the right against illegal search and seizures as protected by the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. Maverick gained further notoriety for his defense of conscientious objectors during the Vietnam War.

In 1979, Maverick left the legal profession and began writing a weekly political column for the San Antonio Express-News . Maverick married artist Julia Orynski in 1966.

Source:

Uhler, David. Death Silences Maverick’s Proud Liberal Voice at 82 . San Antonio Express-News . January 28, 2003.

From the guide to the Maury Maverick Jr. Papers 83-288; 83-317; 83-390; 84-61; 84-84; 85-220; 86-10; 86-97; 87-113; 89-282; 93-212; 95-142; 93-176; 95-223; 95-264; 96-320; 96-351; 97-264; 2000-008; 2003-169; 2006-271; 2011-086. 21398758., [ca. 1835-2000], (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)

San Antonio lawyer, journalist, and former Texas legislator, born in 1921,

served three terms in the Texas House of Representatives, 1950-1956, and ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1961. Maverick served as an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union on the state and national levels and was counsel on several landmark cases in the 1950s and 1960s. As an attorney in San Antonio during the Vietnam Conflict, Maverick represented many in-military-service conscientious objectors. Since 1979, Maverick has written a weekly political commentary for the San Antonio Express News. He is the son of former San Antonio mayor, Maury Maverick, Sr.

From the description of Maverick, Maury, Jr., papers, 1921- (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 21398758