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Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 (Item)
  • Leader of the Senate at the age of 44. Johnson won national attention as chairman of the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee during the Korean War. On November 2, 1954 he was re-elected to the U.S. Senate
Hodges, Luther Hartwell, 1898-1974 (Item)
  • committees or commissions in North Carolina. Hodges's appointment in 1944 to head the textile-pricing program of the Office of Price Administration (OPA) during World War II, and his selection as a special consultant to the secretary of agriculture, reflected
Hays, L. Brooks (Lawrence Brooks), 1898-1981 (Item)
  • designation as Indian Territory. His relatives were Democrats and Baptists, the dominant political and religious groups in Arkansas, and Hays was throughout his life identified with both groups. Hays attended the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville from
Matthews, Alwyn (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Executive Director, U.S. Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, 1957-1967
Dorbandt, Helen (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Representative, State Democratic Executive Committee, District 5, in LBJ's 1948 Senatorial race
Wilson, Marie (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Secretary, LBJ's Senate office, 1955-1959; Staff Assistant, Senate Democratic Policy Committee, 1959-1960
Dorbandt, Seth W. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Husband of Helen Dorbandt, who was on the State Democratic Executive Committee, District 5, in LBJ's 1948 Senatorial race
Horwitz, Solis (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Counsel, Special Senate Subcommittee which conducted Army-McCarthy hearings; Counsel, Senate Democratic Policy Committee, Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee, 1957-1960; Assistant Secretary
Sparkman, John, 1899-1985 (Item)
  • the University of Alabama law school. He was elected as a Democrat to the 75th Congress, serving from 1937 to 1946, and to the Senate, serving from 1946 to 1979. Senator Sparkman was chairman and co-chair of a number of key committees, including the Committee
Castro, Nash, 1920- (Item)
  • of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, New York-New Jersey, from 1969 to 1990. He was a member of the First Lady's Committee for a More Beautiful Capital, Assistant Regional Director of the National Capital Region, Chairman of the Committee for the Lyndon
  • LBJ Connection: Assistant Superintendent, National Capital Parks; Director, National Capital Region, National Park Service
Dellinger, David T., 1915- (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Vietnam protestor; Chairman, National Mobilization Committee, March on the Pentagon, 1967
Jenkins, Warwick Hoxie, III, 1921-2001 (Item)
  • at Jenkins & Jenkins until his death. Jenkins also served as attorney for the Ellis County Water District for more than 47 years, and a city attorney for a number of North Central Texas cities. He was a member of the State Democratic Executive Committee
  • LBJ Connection: Texas Democratic Party county chairman; member of the Texas State Democratic Executive Committee
Baker, Robert G. (Bobby) (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Senate Page, 1943-1952; Assistant Secretary to Senate Minority Leader, 1953-1955; Secretary to Senate Majority Leader, 1955-1963; Secretary, Treasurer of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, 1957-1960
Clements, Earle C., 1896-1985 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Governor, 1947-1950, Congressman, 1945-1948, and U.S. Senator, 1950-1957, Kentucky; Senate Majority Whip, 1953-1957; Chairman, Senate Democratic Campaign Committee
Calvert, Robert W. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Member, Texas House of Representatives; Speaker, 1937-1939; Criminal District Attorney, 1943-1947; Chairman, State Democratic Executive Committee, 1946-1948; Associate Justice, later Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court
Rowe, James H. (James Henry), 1909-1984 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Long-time friend and adviser to LBJ; Administrative Assistant to Franklin Roosevelt; Counsel to Democratic Policy Committee, 1956
Burleson, Omar Truman, 1906-1991 (Item)
  • Bio: Omar Truman Burleson (b. March 19, 1906, Anson, Tex.-d. May 14, 1991, Abilene, Tex.) was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Texas. He served as county attorney of Jones County, Texas from 1931 to 1934 and as Jones County judge from 1934
Fleming, Harold (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Southern Regional Council staff, 1947-1961; Founder, the Potomac Institute, 1961; Organizer, White House Conference To Fulfill These Rights 1966; Chairman, National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing; Member, Leadership
Holcomb, Luther J. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Baptist minister; Chairman, Texas Advisory Committee of Civil Rights Commission; National Advisory Committee on Community Relations; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Lehan, Frank W. (Item)
  • Bio: (1923-1997) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1944-1954; Ramel-Wooldridge Corporation, 1954-1958; Space Electronics Corporation, 1958-1963; President’s Science Advisory Committee member; National Reconnaissance Office; Assistant Secretary
  • LBJ Connection: Member, President’s Science Advisory Committee; Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, Department of Transportation
Galloway, Eilene M. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Specialist on national defense; Legislative Reference Service; Special Consultant, Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, 1959
Gorman, Thomas Francis (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Journalist; author; lobbyist; Executive Director, National Committee Against Mental Illness; member, U.S. Mental Health Delegation to the Soviet Union, 1967
Morton, Thruston B. (Thruston Ballard), 1907-1982 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: U.S. Congressman, 1947-1953 and Senator, 1957-1968, Kentucky; Chairman, Republican National Committee, 1959-1961
Alford, Dorothy Burkett, 1920-2012 (Item)
  • offices for Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson and Judge Ralph Yarborough. Alford also worked for the State Democratic Executive Committee as Executive Secretary during the tenure of Governor Preston Smith and as secretary to several committees at State
McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916- (Item)
  • Relations Committee, 1965; unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate, 1968; senior editor at Simon and Schuster, New York City 1973; author
Goldschmidt, Elizabeth Wickenden (Item)
  • Poverty, 1965-1966; member, National Advisory Committee to the Legal Services Program, Office of Economic Opportunity
Woodward, Warren (Item)
  • Bio: Warren Woodward was a member of the National Advisory Commission on Selective Service in the mid-1960s.
  • LBJ Connection: Long-time friend of LBJ; Assistant to Congressman and Senator Johnson, 1948-1953; Involved in most LBJ campaigns; Employee, KTBC; Member, National Advisory Committee on Selective Service, 1966; Vice President, American Airlines
Cain, James C. (James Clarence), 1913-1992 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: LBJ’s friend and personal physician; Member, National Advisory Heart Council, National Institutes of Health, National Advisory Committee on Medical Manpower
Ensley, Grover W. (Grover William), 1915-2000 (Item)
  • Bio: (1915- ) Fiscal analyst, U.S. Bureau of the Budget, 1941-1947; Technical adviser to Senator Ralph Flanders, 1947-1949; Executive Director, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, 1949-1957; Executive Vice President, National Association
  • LBJ Connection: Executive Director, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, 1949-1957
Murray, Hyde (Item)
  • Bio: Veteran, Korean War, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; lawyer; Minority Counsel, House Agriculture Committee, 1958-1979; President, Congressional Staff Club, 1965; Minority Counsel, House of Representatives and Counsel to the Minority Leader, 1980
  • LBJ Connection: Lawyer; Minority Counsel, House Agriculture Committee, 1958-1979; President, Congressional Staff Club, 1965
Lewis, Robert G. (Robert George), 1919- (Item)
  • Bio: Robert George Lewis (b. 1919) was an agricultural journalist and economic consultant. In 1960 he was director of national headquarters for Farmers for Kennedy and Johnson Committee. He served as Administrator for the Rural Community Development
  • LBJ Connection: Administrative Assistant to Senator William Proxmire, 1957-1959; Director, National Headquarters, Farmers for Kennedy-Johnson Committee, 1960; Administrator, Rural Community Development Service, Department of Agriculture, 1965-1967
Ellender, Allen Joseph, 1890-1972 (Item)
  • in the Artillery Corps, U.S. Army, during the First World War. He was a member of the State House of Representatives from 1924 to 1936, acting as floor leader and as speaker. He was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate, serving from 1937 until his death in 1972
Hayden, Carl Trumbull, 1877-1972 (Item)
  • as a Democrat to the U.S. Congress upon the admission of Arizona as a State. He served eight terms in the Congress from 1912 to 1927, before his election to the Senate where he served from 1927 to 1969. During World War I he was a major of Infantry in the U.S
Dean, Homer E., Jr., 1918-2008 (Item)
  • as Chairman of the Lyndon Johnson for Senator Committee in Jim Wells County during the 1948 senatorial election.
  • LBJ Connection: Alice, Texas, lawyer; Jim Wells County county attorney during LBJ's 1948 Democratic senatorial primary race against Coke Stevenson and the "Box 13" scandal.
Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971 (Item)
  • ) and was a member of the State House of Representatives from 1921 to 1931. He was the Governor of Georgia when elected in 1932 as a Democrat to the Senate, serving from 1933 until his death in 1971. Senator Russell served as President pro tempore for two Congresses
Minor, Michael, 1946-2008 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Member, Texas State Democratic Executive Committee; private collector of rare documents
McPherson, Harry C. (Harry Cummings), 1929- (Item)
  • Bio: Harry Cummings McPherson, Jr. (b. 1929) was a lawyer and government official. He served the U.S. Senate as assistant general counsel to Democratic policy committee, 1956 to 1959; associate counsel, 1959 to 1961; and general counsel, 1961
  • LBJ Connection: Assistant General Counsel, Senate Democractic Policy Committee, 1956-1959; Associate Counsel, 1959-1961; General Counsel, 1961-1963; Deputy Under Secretary for the Army for International Affairs, 1963-1964; Assistant Secretary
Smythe, Hugh H. (Hugh Heyne), 1913-1977 (Item)
  • Bio: Hugh Heyne Smythe (1913-1977) was a member of the U.S. Delegation to the 16th session of the United Nations General Assembly, and served as a senior advisor to several United Nations commissions and committees. He was the U.S. Ambassador
MacArthur, Diana Taylor, 1933- (Item)
  • Bio: Diana MacArthur is a co-founder of the Rockville-based Dynamac Corp. She was married to Donald M. MacArthur and is a niece to Lady Bird Johnson. Mrs. MacArthur was appointed by President Clinton to the President’s Committee of Advisors
Horowitz, Harold William, 1923-2000 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Associate General Counsel, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1961-1964; member, War on Poverty Task Force, 1964, and National Advisory Committee to Legal Services Program, Office of Economic Opportunity, 1965-1973