Clinton Manges was a controversial oil tycoon in Texas in the 1970s and 1980s.
16 Facts About Clinton Manges
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Clinton Manges began to amass his fortune in South Texas in the early 1970s, when he befriended Lloyd M Bentsen, Sr.
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Clinton Manges was a confidant and close friend of numerous officials, including the late Attorney General Jim Mattox, Garry Mauro and Lt.
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Unlike most of his contemporaries, Clinton Manges was an open, unashamed liberal.
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Clinton Manges was born to migrant farm workers in Cement, Oklahoma.
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Clinton Manges dropped out of grade school to pick cotton.
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Later, Clinton Manges attended high school in Port Aransas and worked as a shrimper.
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Clinton Manges met Ruth Richmond, daughter of a prosperous local farmer, and fellow employee at the Rio Theatre in Raymondville; they married in 1946.
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Clinton Manges agreed to pay legal expenses of Duval County District Judge O P Carillo in his impeachment trial.
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Clinton Manges owned the Mongoose bowling alley, and later the Mongoose cotton gin.
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Clinton Manges experienced financial problems in 1961, did not pay debts, and wrote bad checks to the state of Texas.
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Clinton Manges pleaded guilty in 1965 and paid a fine of $2500.
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In 1984, Clinton Manges persuaded the fledgling United States Football League into granting him an expansion franchise, the San Antonio Gunslingers.
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The players sued Clinton Manges to recover back pay, but that suit collapsed when he declared bankruptcy in 1987.
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Clinton Manges lost the 100,000-acre he had bought in 1968, Magic Kingdom ranch, to Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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Clinton Manges died in a nursing home in San Antonio.