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===Disputed 1948 U.S. Senate runoff election===
===Disputed 1948 U.S. Senate runoff election===
In 1946, Mayborn was elected to the Texas Democratic State Central Committee. While on the committee, he played a crucial role in the disputed senatorial [[primary]] runoff election of 1948 for the seat vacated by the retiring Willard Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel (1890-1969).
In 1946, Mayborn was elected to the Texas Democratic State Central Committee. While on the committee, he played a crucial role in the disputed senatorial [[primary]] runoff election of 1948 for the seat vacated by the retiring Willard Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel (1890-1969).
The state committee was asked to declare the winner of the primary after supporters of former Governor Coke Robert Stevenson (1888-1975), a [[conservative]] Democrat, accused Johnson's campaign of fraudulent voting practices, particularly in Jim Wells County, one of the south Texas "machine" counties controlled by [[George Parr]], the Duval County political boss. Eighty-seven primary votes were in dispute.
The state committee was asked to declare the winner of the primary after supporters of former Governor Coke Robert Stevenson (1888-1975), a [[conservative]] Democrat, accused Johnson's campaign of fraudulent voting practices, particularly in Jim Wells County, one of the south Texas "machine" counties controlled by [[George Parr]], the Duval County political boss. Eighty-seven primary votes were in dispute.
John Connally, then Johnson's campaign manager, summoned Mayborn from a business trip in Nashville, where Mayborn owned a radio station, to cast the deciding vote in what was to be the committee's 29-28 decision to declare Johnson the winner of the Democratic senatorial nomination.<ref>[http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fmazz TSHA Online - Texas State Historical Association<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> [[U.S. Supreme Court]] Justice [[Hugo Black]], a former [[U.S. Senator]] from [[Alabama]], declared that the Democratic committee would have the sole power to select the nominee, a crushing blow to the Stevenson campaign. Stevenson, thereafter, embittered at the outcome of the senatorial nomination, headed the "Democrats for Nixon" Committee in Texas in 1960,, when Johnson was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee on the ticket headed by then Senator [[John F. Kennedy]] of [[Massachusetts]] and also a candidate for senatorial reeledction opposed by the Republican [[John Tower]].
John Connally, then Johnson's campaign manager, summoned Mayborn from a business trip in Nashville, where Mayborn owned a radio station, to cast the deciding vote in what was to be the committee's 29-28 decision to declare Johnson the winner of the Democratic senatorial nomination.<ref>[http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fmazz TSHA Online - Texas State Historical Association<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> [[U.S. Supreme Court]] Justice [[Hugo Black]], a former [[U.S. Senator]] from [[Alabama]], declared that the Democratic committee would have the sole power to select the nominee, a crushing blow to the Stevenson campaign. Stevenson, thereafter, embittered at the outcome of the senatorial nomination, headed the "Democrats for Nixon" Committee in Texas in 1960,, when Johnson was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee on the ticket headed by then Senator [[John F. Kennedy]] of [[Massachusetts]] and also a candidate for senatorial reeledction opposed by the Republican [[John Tower]].
==Legacy==
==Legacy==
Odie B. Faulk and Laura E. Faulk titled their Mayborn biography ''Frank Mayborn: A Man Who Made a Difference.'' Indeed Mayborn was involved in the development of many Bell County institutions. He served on the advisory board of the acclaimed Scott & White Memorial Hospital and played an important role in the location of the [[Texas A&M University]] Medical Center in Temple. A longtime advocate of a convention center for Temple, Mayborn donated more than fifteen acres of land for the Frank W. Mayborn Convention Center, which was completed in 1982, five years before his death. The facility includes the Mayborn Museum Complex.
Odie B. Faulk and Laura E. Faulk entitled their Mayborn biography, ''Frank Mayborn: A Man Who Made a Difference.'' Indeed Mayborn was involved in the development of many Bell County institutions. He served on the advisory board of the acclaimed Scott & White Memorial Hospital and played an important role in the location of the [[Texas A&M University]] Medical Center in Temple. A longtime advocate of a convention center for Temple, Mayborn donated more than fifteen acres of land for the Frank W. Mayborn Convention Center, which was completed in 1982, five years before his death. The facility includes the Mayborn Museum Complex.
As an advocate for education, Mayborn was active in the founding of the two-year Central Texas College near Killeen, which services many military personnel from Fort Hood. He also started the annual Bell County spelling be]. He endowed a chair at [[Texas Tech University]] in [[Lubbock]]. Mayborn served on journalism advisory boards at both the [[University of Texas]] and Texas A&M. Mayborn established a journalism chair at [[Baptist]]-affiliated [[Baylor University]] of Waco. He was a trustee and a donor to George Peabody College in Nashville. The large Frank and Sue Mayborn Campus Center was endowed after his death at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton in Bell County.
As an advocate for education, Mayborn was active in the founding of the two-year Central Texas College near Killeen, which services many military personnel from Fort Hood. He also started the annual Bell County spelling be]. He endowed a chair at [[Texas Tech University]] in [[Lubbock]]. Mayborn served on journalism advisory boards at both the [[University of Texas]] and Texas A&M. Mayborn established a journalism chair at [[Baptist]]-affiliated [[Baylor University]] of Waco. He was a trustee and a donor to George Peabody College in Nashville. The large Frank and Sue Mayborn Campus Center was endowed after his death at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton in Bell County.
* Frank M. Burke, Jr., obituary, ''The Dallas Morning News,'' July 29, 2010.
* Frank M. Burke, Jr., obituary, ''The Dallas Morning News,'' July 29, 2010.
==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==