George H. Mahon

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Congressman Gerald Ford , MSFC Director Wernher von Braun , Congressman George H. Mahon and NASA Administrator James E. Webb when you visited the Marshall Space Flight Center on April 28, 1964 to present the Saturn program

George Herman Mahon (born September 22, 1900 in Mahon near Haynesville , Claiborne Parish , Louisiana , † November 19, 1985 in San Angelo , Texas ) was an American politician . He represented the state of Texas as a member of the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Mahon was born in September 1900 near Haynesville, Louisiana. His family then moved to Texas, where they settled on a farm in Loraine , Mitchell County . Mahon attended public school there and graduated from high school in 1918. He then attended Simmons University in Abilene and graduated there in 1924 with a Bachelor of Arts . He then made his Bachelor of Laws at the University of Texas at Austin in 1925 . He also studied at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis . He was admitted to the bar in 1925 and then opened a practice in Colorado . He was then elected as a Mitchell County District Attorney in 1926. He then served as the District Attorney for the 32nd Judicial District of Texas between 1927 and 1933.

politics

Mahon was a delegate to all Democratic National Conventions between 1936 and 1964. He also headed the Smithsonian Institution between 1964 and 1978 . He was also elected as a Democrat in the 74th and 21 subsequent Congresses. His term of office ran from January 3, 1935 to January 3, 1979. In 1978 he decided not to run for the 96th Congress. During his tenure in Congress, he chaired the Committee on Appropriations (88th to 95th Congress) and the Joint Committee on Reduction of Federal Expenditures (90th to 93rd Congress). He also refused to sign the Southern Manifesto in 1956 , which spoke out against racial integration in public institutions.

George Mahon died on November 19, 1985 in San Angelo. He was buried in the City Cemetery in Loraine.

Web links

  • George H. Mahon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Mahon, George H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahon, George Herman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH near Haynesville , Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1985
Place of death San Angelo , Texas