• in 1948, Frank W. Mayborn, a Texas newspaper publisher, cast the tie-breaking vote to certify Lyndon B. Johnson as the Democratic party's U.S. Senate nominee?

Facts on topics related to Frank W. Mayborn

Dallas

• John McClannahan Crockett was the second mayor of Dallas, and the Lieutenant Governor of Texas from 1861 to 1863?
• the Comerica Bank New Year's Parade, originally held for the Cotton Bowl Classic, is still held annually in Dallas even though the Cotton Bowl has moved to Arlington, Texas?

Austin, Texas

• Jesse Sublett was a pioneer of the Austin, Texas, punk rock scene, authored a series of mystery novels, and wrote a history of the Texas Turnpike Authority?
• as part of a publicity stunt, the 1927 Texas Relays held a 89 mile (143 km) running race from San Antonio to Austin?
• the unusual configuration of the running track at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas – 84 m straights and 118 m curves – has garnered it a reputation as one of the fastest tracks in the world?
• when Jester Center was built in 1969, it was the largest dormitory in North America, the largest building in Austin, Texas, and the largest building project by the University of Texas at Austin?

Lyndon B. Johnson

• U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman once lived in the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building?
• Howard Zahniser died a few months before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law, after spending eight years authoring and promoting it?
• The University of Texas Longhorn Band performed for inaugurations of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush?
• in 1948, Frank W. Mayborn, a Texas newspaper publisher, cast the tie-breaking vote to certify Lyndon B. Johnson as the Democratic party's U.S. Senate nominee?

Colorado

• Colorado state representative Cherylin Peniston won two Fulbright Scholarships while a public school teacher?
• Colorado state representative Joe Rice (pictured) resigned from the Glendale city council in 2003 when called up to serve in the U.S. Army in Iraq, where he advised the Baghdad city council?
• Colorado state representative Spencer Swalm spent time as a Christian missionary in Bolivia?
• Colorado state representative Victor Mitchell secured state funding for Project Lifesaver programs that would provide tracking bracelets for the cognitvely impaired?
• Colorado state senator Chris Romer has proposed using a wiki-like web site to involve citizens in drafting legislation?
• Colorado Rep. Stella Garza-Hicks dropped out of high school in the ninth grade?
• Colorado Sen. Nancy Spence's bill to create a statewide school voucher program was the first to be enacted into law in the U.S. — and then overturned by state courts — after Zelman v. Simmons-Harris?
• Colorado state representative Amy Stephens wrote an abstinence-based sex education curriculum that was translated into over a dozen languages?
• Colorado state senator John Morse worked as an emergency medical technician, accountant, and police chief before entering the legislature?
• state representative Dianne Primavera, a breast and cervical cancer survivor, sponsored legislation for the Colorado Breast and Women's Reproductive Cancers Fund?

Massachusetts

• child actor Johnny Washbrook, though educated at two London art academies, spent his later adult years as a banker in Massachusetts?
• Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, was founded by Jonas Gilman Clark in 1887?
• philanthropist Harriet Nevins left an animal shelter, a fountain, and a John LaFarge stained glass window to the people of Massachusetts?
• Bridge Island Meadows is an inaccessible nature reserve on the floodplains of the Charles River in Massachusetts?
• Eastern Bank is the largest independent, mutually owned bank in New England, and the largest community bank in Massachusetts?
• Pythagoras, Kepler, and Galileo reside in a subway station under Cambridge, Massachusetts?
• Rachel Wall was the first American-born female pirate, and the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts?
• Schwartz Communications, the largest PR agency in Massachusetts, started by making campaigns for baby food before specializing on counseling pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies?
• Wonderland Greyhound Park in Revere, Massachusetts features over Template:Unit mile of underground piping which heats the race track on cold and wet days?
• architect H. Neill Wilson designed massive summer cottages in Massachusetts' Berkshire County, including Shadowbrook where Andrew Carnegie died?