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After thirteen years in private law practice in Wichita Falls, Farabee entered the 1974 Democratic primary for the state Senate. He defeated veteran State Representative Charles Finnell of Holliday in Archer County.<ref name=google>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ykEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=Ray+Farabee&source=bl&ots=9tybsGokUI&sig=o6hEDXAjyKLoWNW1xKX6OaalDeg&hl=en&ei=mkocS6biIYiWtgeh39XUAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CBwQ6AEwCTgo#v=onepage&q=Ray%20Farabee&f=false|title=Country Boys: When rural Democrats got together to fill a vacancy on the ballot, they weren’t about to choose a city girl|author=Patricia Kilday Hart|publisher=''Texas Monthly''|volume=16|issue=7|pages=90–95|accessdate=December 5, 2009}}</ref>
After thirteen years in private law practice in Wichita Falls, Farabee entered the 1974 Democratic primary for the state Senate. He defeated veteran State Representative Charles Finnell of Holliday in Archer County.<ref name=google>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ykEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=Ray+Farabee&source=bl&ots=9tybsGokUI&sig=o6hEDXAjyKLoWNW1xKX6OaalDeg&hl=en&ei=mkocS6biIYiWtgeh39XUAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CBwQ6AEwCTgo#v=onepage&q=Ray%20Farabee&f=false|title=Country Boys: When rural Democrats got together to fill a vacancy on the ballot, they weren’t about to choose a city girl|author=Patricia Kilday Hart|publisher=''Texas Monthly''|volume=16|issue=7|pages=90–95|accessdate=December 5, 2009}}</ref>
The incumbent state senator, Jack Hightower, ran instead for the [[United States House of Representatives]] and unseated the [[Republican Party|Republican]] Robert Dale "Bob" Price (1927-2004), who had first been elected in the Panhandle-area district in 1966. The U.S. House district was altered after the 1970 census to include Wichita Falls and [[Amarillo]] and territory in between in the same sprawling district.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lrl.texas.gov/|title=Ray Farabee|publisher=Texas Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=August 21, 2019}}</ref>
The incumbent state senator, Jack English Hightower (1926-2013), ran instead for the [[United States House of Representatives]] and unseated the [[Republican Party|Republican]] Robert Dale "Bob" Price (1927-2004), who had first been elected in the Panhandle-area district in 1966. The U.S. House district was altered after the 1970 census to include Wichita Falls and [[Amarillo]] and territory in between in the same sprawling district.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lrl.texas.gov/|title=Ray Farabee|publisher=Texas Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=August 21, 2019}}</ref>
Meanwhile, after the 1980 census, Farabee's District 30 encompassed a huge swath of North and West Texas, including part of Denton County and all of his own Wichita County, as well as Wilbarger, Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Childress, Clay, Cooke, Cottle, Dickens, Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Grayson, Hardeman, Haskell, Jack, Jones, Kent, King, Knox, Mitchell, Montague, Motley, Scurry, Shackleford, Stonewall, Throckmorton, and Young counties.
Meanwhile, after the 1980 census, Farabee's District 30 encompassed a huge swath of North and West Texas, including part of Denton County and all of his own Wichita County, as well as Wilbarger, Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Childress, Clay, Cooke, Cottle, Dickens, Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Grayson, Hardeman, Haskell, Jack, Jones, Kent, King, Knox, Mitchell, Montague, Motley, Scurry, Shackleford, Stonewall, Throckmorton, and Young counties.