Maury Maverick is best remembered for his independence from the party and for coining the term "gobbledygook" for obscure and euphemistic bureaucratic language.
11 Facts About Maury Maverick
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Maury Maverick's grandparents were Samuel Maverick, one of the signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the source of the word maverick, and Mary Ann Adams Maverick.
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Maury Maverick studied at Texas Military Institute, the Virginia Military Institute, and the University of Texas.
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Maury Maverick was admitted to the bar in 1916 and practiced law in San Antonio.
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Maury Maverick was a first lieutenant in the infantry in World War I and earned the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
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Maury Maverick was elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress in 1934, with support from the Hispanic population of his district, and re-elected in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth.
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Maury Maverick angered the conservative Democrats running the party back in Texas, including John Nance Garner.
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Maury Maverick was the sole Texas Democrat to vote for the Anti-Lynching Bill of 1937.
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Maury Maverick was defeated in the primary for a third term in 1938.
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Maury Maverick returned to Texas where he was elected Mayor of San Antonio, again with support from minority voters, serving from 1939 to 1941, when he was labeled a Communist and defeated.
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Maury Maverick married Terrell Louise Dobbs and had a daughter and a son, San Antonio newspaper editorialist Maury Maverick, Jr.