On a campaign stop in Plainview on Jun. 21, 1941, U.S. Senate candidate Gerald C. Mann denounced a disgraceful attempt to buy the election “with the invasion of money from Washington.”
Sen. Morris Sheppard had died on Apr. 9 two years into his fifth term. Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel appointed Andrew Jackson Houston, the San Jacinto hero’s 87 year old son, to keep the seat warm until ...