Ralph Yarborough

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Ralph Yarborough

Ralph Webster Yarborough (born June 8, 1903 in Chandler , Henderson County , Texas , † January 27, 1996 in Austin , Texas) was an American politician .

From 1919 to 1920 he attended West Point Military Academy . In 1922 he went to Germany and was an assistant at the American Chamber of Commerce in Berlin to study foreign economics there and to learn how to work. At the university he completed his law examination in 1927 and initially practiced as a lawyer in El Paso . He then served as Assistant Attorney General of Texas from 1931 to 1934 . In 1936 he was appointed district judge of the 53rd judicial district in Travis County , from 1941 he served in the 3rd judicial district.

From 1943 to 1946 he served in Europe and Japan in the army and left the army as a colonel . Shortly after his return to the United States, he ran for the nomination as a Democratic candidate in the gubernatorial elections in 1952, 1954 and 1956 . However, the attempt failed in the three attempts, in the last election he was narrowly defeated. In a by-election on April 2, 1957, he was elected as the Liberal wing of his party's Democrat as a US Senator for the state of Texas. He took office on April 29, 1957 and resigned on January 3, 1971 after losing the Democratic primary in 1970 to Lloyd Bentsen . Yarborough died on January 27, 1996 in Austin at the age of 92 and is buried in Texas State Cemetery in Austin.

Yarborough was an immediate eyewitness to the assassination attempt on President John F. Kennedy . On November 22, 1963, he was driving in a motorcade through Dallas with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson two cars behind Kennedy's when the fatal shots were fired at them.

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SURNAME Yarborough, Ralph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yarborough, Ralph Webster (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Chandler , Texas
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1996
Place of death Austin , Texas