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Senate Years of Service: 1941-1949 Party: Democrat
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MLK Library
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O'DANIEL, Wilbert Lee (Pappy), a Senator from Texas; born in Malta, Morgan County, Ohio, March 11, 1890;
reared on a cattle ranch near Arlington, Kans.; attended the public schools and business college in
Hutchinson, Kans.; engaged in the flour milling and merchandising business, Fort Worth, Tex.,
1909-1938; radio personality; elected Governor of Texas in 1938, reelected in 1940, and served
until August 3, 1941, when he resigned, having been elected to the Senate; elected on June 28, 1941,
as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Morris Sheppard;
reelected in 1942 and served from August 4, 1941, until January 3, 1949; was not a candidate for
renomination in 1948; unsuccessful candidate for the gubernatorial nomination in 1956; owned and
operated several life insurance companies in Texas; died in Dallas, Tex., May 11, 1969; interment in
Hillcrest Memorial Park.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography; American National Biography; Douglas, Claude Leroy, and Francis Miller.
The Life Story of W. Lee ODaniel. Dallas: Regional Press, 1938; Welch, June Rayfield.
W. Lee ODaniel Was a Radio Personality. In The Texas Senator, pp. 124-29.
Dallas: G.L.A. Press, 1978.
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