• Odell McBrayer, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1974, proposed the televising of executions to deter violent crime?

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List of Governors of Texas

• J. Evetts Haley, the historian of the American West who ran in 1956 for governor of Texas, told Duval County political boss George Parr that "it will be my pleasure to lock you up"?

1903

• the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme included the world's then-longest fresh-water pipeline when it opened in Western Australia in 1903?

Governor of Utah

• Utah Governor Stephen S. Harding used his home in Milan, Indiana, to help slaves escape through the Underground Railroad in Indiana?