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'''Frank Kell Cahoon, Sr.''' (June 20, 1934 – January 30, 2013),<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.npwelch.com/services.asp?page=odetail&id=56390&locid=1|title=Frank Kell Cahoon (1934–2013)|publisher=Npwelch.com|accessdate=April 10, 2013}}</ref> was an [[oil]]man and [[natural gas]] entrepreneur from [[Midland, Texas|Midland]], [[Texas]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manta.com/c/mm465n0/frank-cahoon|title=Frank Cahoon|publisher=manta.com|accessdate=March 13, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.powerprofiles.com/profile/0000027645662/FRANK+CAHOON+KELL-MIDLAND-TX|title=Frank Kell Cahoon|publisher=powerprofiles.com|accessdate=March 13, 2011}}</ref> who was the only [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Texas House of Representatives in the regular 1965 legislative session following [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]'s landslide over [[Barry Goldwater]] in the 1964 presidential election.
'''Frank Kell Cahoon, Sr.''' (June 20, 1934 – January 30, 2013),<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.npwelch.com/services.asp?page=odetail&id=56390&locid=1|title=Frank Kell Cahoon (1934–2013)|publisher=Npwelch.com|accessdate=April 10, 2013}}</ref> was an [[oil]]man and [[natural gas]] entrepreneur from [[Midland]], [[Texas]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manta.com/c/mm465n0/frank-cahoon|title=Frank Cahoon|publisher=manta.com|accessdate=March 13, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.powerprofiles.com/profile/0000027645662/FRANK+CAHOON+KELL-MIDLAND-TX|title=Frank Kell Cahoon|publisher=powerprofiles.com|accessdate=March 13, 2011}}</ref> who was the only [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Texas House of Representatives in the regular 1965 legislative session following [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]'s landslide over [[Barry Goldwater]] in the 1964 presidential election.
L<ref>{{cite web|url=http://texasweekly.com/newsletter/tw19991206.html|title="Testing the Teflon", December 6, 1999|publisher=texasweekly.com|accessdate=March 13, 2011}}</ref> Cahoon served two terms in the legislature from 1965 to 1969.<ref name=legis>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=792&leg=60&from=sessionList|title=Frank Cahoon|publisher=lrl.state.tx.us|accessdate=March 13, 2011}}</ref>
L<ref>{{cite web|url=http://texasweekly.com/newsletter/tw19991206.html|title="Testing the Teflon", December 6, 1999|publisher=texasweekly.com|accessdate=March 13, 2011}}</ref> Cahoon served two terms in the legislature from 1965 to 1969.<ref name=legis>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=792&leg=60&from=sessionList|title=Frank Cahoon|publisher=lrl.state.tx.us|accessdate=March 13, 2011}}</ref>
Cahoon was not the first Republican member of the chamber since [[Reconstruction]] but was outnumbered in his first term, 149 to 1.<ref name=uta/> By 2011, Republicans in the Texas House had reached their high of 101 members to 49 for the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ramparts360.com/uncategorized/two-democrats-defections-give-republicans-supermajority-in-texas-house/|author=Sibyl West|title="Two Democrats' defections give Republicans SUPERMAJORITY in Texas House"|date=December 14, 2010|publisher=Ramparts360.com|accessdate=March 14, 2011}}</ref> In January 2013,the month of Cahoon's death, there were ninety-five Republicans and fifty-five Democrats in the state House; by 2019, with losses in the mid-term elections in 2018, the number dropped to eighty-three Republicans with sixty-seven Democrats.
Cahoon was not the first Republican member of the chamber since [[Reconstruction]] but was outnumbered in his first term, 149 to 1.<ref name=uta/> By 2011, Republicans in the Texas House had reached their high of 101 members to 49 for the [[Democratic Party|Democrats]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ramparts360.com/uncategorized/two-democrats-defections-give-republicans-supermajority-in-texas-house/|author=Sibyl West|title="Two Democrats' defections give Republicans SUPERMAJORITY in Texas House"|date=December 14, 2010|publisher=Ramparts360.com|accessdate=March 14, 2011}}</ref> In January 2013,the month of Cahoon's death, there were ninety-five Republicans and fifty-five Democrats in the state House; by 2019, with losses in the mid-term elections in 2018, the number dropped to eighty-three Republicans with sixty-seven Democrats.
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