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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Texas / USSamuel Taliaferro RAYBURN
(1882-1961)
RAYBURN, Samuel
Taliaferro, a Representative from Texas; born near Kingston,
Roane County, Tenn., January 6, 1882; moved to Fannin County, Tex.,
in 1887 with his parents who settled near Windom; attended the
rural schools and was graduated from the East Texas Normal College,
Commerce, Tex., in 1903; studied law at the University of Texas at
Austin; was admitted to the bar in 1908 and commenced practice in
Bonham, Fannin County, Tex.; member of the State house of
representatives 1907-1913, and served as speaker during the last
two years; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the
twenty-four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1913,
until his death; chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce (Seventy-second, Seventy-third, and Seventy-fourth
Congresses); majority leader (Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth
Congresses), minority leader (Eightieth and Eighty-third
Congresses); elected Speaker of the House of Representatives
September 16, 1940, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Speaker William B. Bankhead; reelected Speaker in the
Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, Eighty-first,
Eighty-second, Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, Eighty-sixth, and
Eighty-seventh Congresses; died in Bonham, Tex., November 16, 1961;
interment in Willow Wild Cemetery.
Bibliography
Champagne, Anthony. Congressman Sam Rayburn. New Brunswick,
N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1984; Hardeman, D.B., and Donald C.
Bacon. Rayburn: A Biography. Austin: Texas Monthly Press,
1987; Steinberg, Alfred. Sam Rayburn: A Biography. New York:
Hawthorn Books, 1975.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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