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Dolph Briscoe Jr. (April 23, 1923 – June 27, 2010) was an American rancher and businessman from Uvalde, Texas, who was the 41st governor of Texas between 1973 and 1979. He was a member of the Democratic Party .
Betty Jane Slaughter Briscoe (1923–2000) January 16, 1973 – January 16, 1979 Dolph Briscoe [50] Rita Crocker Clements (1931–2018) January 16, 1979 – January 18, 1983 Bill Clements [8] Linda Gale White (b. 1942) January 18, 1983 – January 20, 1987 Mark White [51] Rita Crocker Clements (1931–2018) January 20, 1987 – January 15, 1991 ...
Muñiz ran in the general election against the victorious Democrat Dolph Briscoe and the Republican Henry C. Grover, a departing state senator from Houston, who trailed Briscoe by some 100,000 votes, or half the number of votes that Muñiz received. Though he polled only 214,118 votes (6 percent) in the election, Muñiz said that his campaign ...
She was launched on 9 August 1975, sponsored by Betty Jane Briscoe, wife of Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe, [1] [2] and commissioned on 10 September 1977. Service history
Smith married her college sweetheart, World War II bombardier George Edward Beeman, in 1945. She soon left him to enroll at the University of Texas at Austin, where her papers and memorabilia are kept in the Dolph Briscoe Center, [15] and they divorced two years later. [15] In 1957, she married Fred Lister; the couple divorced in 1962. [6]
The John Nance Garner House, located in Uvalde, Texas, United States, was the home of American Vice-President John Nance Garner and his wife Ettie from 1920 until Ettie's death in 1948. Garner, a native of Uvalde, lived there until 1952, when he moved to a small cottage on the property and donated the main house to the City of Uvalde as a ...
Young Dolph's longtime girlfriend, Mia Jaye, has broken her silence following his death on Wednesday. Jaye shares two young kids with the rapper, born Adolph Robert Thornton Jr., who was a rising ...
Incumbent Democratic governor Dolph Briscoe was easily re-elected to a second term, winning 61% of the vote to the 31% of Republican Jim Granberry, the former mayor of Lubbock. Raza Unida candidate Ramsey Muniz won 6%, while the remaining 2% were cast for other candidates. [1] Briscoe was sworn in for his second term on January 21, 1975.