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MAVERICK, Fontaine Maury, (cousin of Abram P. Maury, nephew of James L. Slayden, and cousin of John W. Fishburne),
a Representative from Texas; born in San Antonio, Tex., October 23, 1895;
attended the common schools of Texas, Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, and the University of
Texas at Austin; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1916 and commenced practice in San
Antonio, Tex.; during the First World War served as a first lieutenant in the One Hundred and
Fifty-seventh Infantry, Fortieth Division, and was overseas with the Twenty-eighth Infantry, First
Division; awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart; engaged in the lumber, building-material,
housing, and mortgage businesses 1925-1930; collector of taxes of Bexar County, Tex., 1929-1931;
delegate to several Democratic State conventions and to the Democratic National Conventions in 1928
and 1940; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3,
1935-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1938; mayor of San Antonio
1939-1941; divisional director and later vice chairman of the War Production Board and chairman of
the Smaller War Plants Corporation, Washington, D.C., 1941-1946; resumed the practice of law;
died in San Antonio, Tex., June 7, 1954; interment in San Jose Burial Park, San Antonio, Tex.
BibliographyDoyle, Judith Kaas. Out of Step: Maury Maverick and
the Politics of the Depression and the New Deal. Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1989;
Henderson, Richard B. Maury Maverick: A Political Biography. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1970; Weiss, Stuart L. Maury Maverick and the Liberal Bloc. Journal of
American History 57 (March 1971): 880-95.
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