Yarborough, Don, Collection 1968

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Yarborough, Don, Collection 1968

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/03160/03160-P.html

The Don Yarborough Collectioncomprises five sixteen-millimeter films documenting the 1968 Democraticgubernatorial primary campaign of Don Yarborough.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Yarborough, Donald, 1925-2009

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Yarborough, Don, 1925-2009

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A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin (UT) and the UT Law School, Donald Howard Yarborough (1925-2009) was a Democratic politician, whose ability to articulate liberal values helped bring reform to the Texas Democratic Party. His first foray into politics came in 1960, when he unsuccessfully ran for Lieutenant Governor. In 1962, he shocked the Democratic establishment in Texas by coming within 28,000 votes of defeating Lyndon Johnson’s protégé, John Connally, Jr., in the D...

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Smith, Preston, 1912-

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