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|spouse=(1) Ruth Whitesides (married 1929-1946, divorced) <br>(2) Wythel Killen (married 1947-1972, divorced) <br>(3) Anyse Sue White (married 1981-1987, his death.<br>

|spouse=(1) Ruth Whitesides (married 1929-1946, divorced) <br>(2) Wythel Killen (married 1947-1972, divorced) <br>(3) Anyse Sue White (married 1981-1987, his death.<br>

'''Parents''':<br>

'''Parents''':<br>

Ward Carlton and Nellie Childs Welton Mayborn

Ward Carlton and Nellie Childs Welton Mayborn<br>

'''Alma mater''':<br>

'''Alma mater''':<br>

W. H. Adamson High School ([[Dallas]], Texas)<br>

W. H. Adamson High School ([[Dallas]])<br>

[[University of Colorado]]

[[University of Colorado]]

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Mayborn was born in Akron, [[Ohio]] to Ward Carlton Mayborn and the former Nellie Childs Welton. Ward Mayborn, who was an executive of the E. W. Scripps newspaper chain, moved the family in 1910 to Westminster, [[Colorado]],  a suburb of [[Denver]] that became the seventh largest city in the state. In 1919, the Mayborns relocated to [[Dallas]], Texas, where young Frank graduated in 1922 from W. H. Adamson High School, then known as Oak Cliff High School in the Oak Cliff neighborhood.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=​https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fmazz|title=Mayborn, Frank Willis|publisher=Texas State Historical Association: ''The Handbook of Texas''|accessdate=October 23, 2019}}</ref>

Mayborn was born in Akron, [[Ohio]] to Ward Carlton Mayborn and the former Nellie Childs Welton. Ward Mayborn, who was an executive of the E. W. Scripps newspaper chain, moved the family in 1910 to Westminster, [[Colorado]],  a suburb of [[Denver]] that became the seventh largest city in the state. In 1919, the Mayborns relocated to [[Dallas]], Texas, where young Frank graduated in 1922 from W. H. Adamson High School, then known as Oak Cliff High School in the Oak Cliff neighborhood.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=​https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fmazz|title=Mayborn, Frank Willis|publisher=Texas State Historical Association: ''The Handbook of Texas''|accessdate=October 23, 2019}}</ref>

In 1926, Mayborn received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the [[University of Colorado]] at Boulder. He worked as a correspondent for several publications while in high school (''The Dallas Dispatch'') and in college (''[[Denver Post]]'' and [[United Press International]]). Thereafter, he was an [[advertising]] salesman for the ''Dallas News'' (since ''Dallas Morning News'') and then served in management positions for the Northern Texas Traction Company in [[Fort Worth]].​<ref name=bio/>

In 1926, Mayborn received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the [[University of Colorado]] at Boulder. He worked as a correspondent for several publications while in high school (''The Dallas Dispatch'') and in college (''[[Denver Post]]'' and [[United Press International]]). Thereafter, he was an [[advertising]] salesman for the ''Dallas News'' (since ''The Dallas Morning News'') and then served in management positions for the Northern Texas Traction Company in [[Fort Worth]].​<ref name=bio/>

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==Texas media mogul==

==Texas media mogul==

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.<ref name=bio/>

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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fpa36|title=Parr, George Berham|publisher=Texas State Historical Association: ''The Handbook of Texas''|accessdate=October 23, 2019}}</ref>

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 name=bio/> [[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. Thereafter, embittered at the outcome of the senatorial nomination, Stevenson 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 reelection 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 name=bio/> [[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. Thereafter, embittered at the outcome of the senatorial nomination, Stevenson 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 reelection opposed by the Republican [[John Tower]].

==Legacy==

==Legacy==

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.​

Odie B. Faulk and Laura E. Faulk entitled their 1989 biography, ''Frank Mayborn: A Man Who Made a Difference.''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Frank-W-Mayborn-made-difference/dp/B0006ETCDQ|title=Frank W. Mayborn: A man who made a difference|author=Odie B. and Laura E. Faulk|publisher=Amazon.com|accessdate=October 23, 2019}}</ref>

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.​