Maury Maverick, Jr.
| Maury Maverick, Jr. | |
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| Texas House of Representatives | |
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In office 1950–1957 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | January 3, 1921 |
| Died | January 28, 2003 (aged 82) |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Julia Orynski Maverick |
| Religion | Episcopalian |
Maury Maverick, Jr. (January 3, 1921 – January 28, 2003) was an American lawyer, politician, activist, and columnist from the U.S. state of Texas. [1] A member of the prominent Maverick family, he was the great-grandson of Samuel Maverick, the rancher who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence and famously refused to his cattle, and the son of Maury Maverick, Sr., a two-term member of the United States House of Representatives.
After graduating from the Texas Military Institute in 1938 and receiving a bachelor's degree in economics in 1942 from another institution, he served in the Marine Corps during World War II, serving in the Quartermaster Corps and eventually seeing action in the Pacific Theater of Operations. At the end of the war, Maverick returned to San Antonio, where he earned a law degree at St. Mary's University in 1949.
The next year, Maverick was elected to the Texas House of Representatives as a Democrat. A committed liberal, he became well known during his term in office as a supporter of organized labor and civil rights for African Americans and an opponent of the persecution of suspected communists during the Red Scare. In one incident, he killed a bill to sentence convicted communists to the death penalty by inserting a poison pill amendment to sentence those who were only suspected of communism to life imprisonment. In 1956, he chose not to run for a fourth term.
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