Patrick CoxPapers 1901-2007

Garner, John Nance, 1868-1967

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John Nance Garner was born on November 22, 1868, in post-Civil War Texas. He grew up in a log cabin at Blossom Prairie in Red River County in Northeast Texas. His father, John Nance Garner III, came to Texas from Tennessee, served in the Confederate army, and settled after the war in Red River County. The elder Garner became a successful cotton farmer and local politician in his home county. Garner's mother, Sarah Guest Garner, the daughter of a banker, encouraged her son's education. The young ...

Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961

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Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn was born on January 6, 1882, in a rural area of Roane County, Tennessee. At age five, Rayburn, along with his parents and nine siblings, moved to a forty-acre cotton farm in Flag Springs, Texas. One more child was born after the move to Texas, and every member of the family had to do their share to make the farm profitable. Rayburn's interest in government coincided with the family's move, and it has been suggested that his curiosity intensified due to the "great golden...

University of Texas at Austin. School of Journalism

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Sam Rayburn Library

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University of Texas at Austin. Dept. of History

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Cox, Patrick.

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Dr. Patrick Cox is Associate Director at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. He administers the Congressional History Collection, the Sam Rayburn Library and Museum in Bonham, the John Nance Garner Museum in Uvalde, and historic preservation projects and programs at Winedale. Dr. Cox has published numerous articles and about Texas political history, the history of journalism, and has published books about Senator Ralph W. Yarborough, and independen...

Yarborough, Ralph Webster, 1903-1996

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Ralph Webster Yarborough (b. June 8, 1903, Chandler, Tex.-d. Jan. 27, 1996, Austin, Tex.), U.S. Senator from Texas, attended West Point and the Sam Houston State Teachers College, taught school in Texas, and spent one year in Germany as assistant secretary for the American Chamber of Commerce. He served in the Texas National Guard for three years before graduating from the University of Texas law school in 1927. He was assistant attorney general of Texas in the early 1930s and was elected distri...

John Nance Garner House and Museum.

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University of Texas at Austin. Center for American History

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In 2002, the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for American History (now the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History) and Division of Continuing Education sponsored a documentary project on the history of longhorn cattle. The University partnered with Alpheus Media to shoot footage of interviews with Texas ranchers. From the guide to the Texas Longhorn Cattle Video Oral History Collection 2002-244; 2003-011., 2002, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of ...