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==Political activities==
==Political activities==
Mayborn was also a political confidant of Texas [[Democratic Party|Democrats]], President Johnson, [[Governor]] [[John Connally]], and [[U.S. Representative]]s W. R. Poage and [[Sam Rayburn]], the long-term House Speaker. He also advised Oveta Culp Hobby, secretary of the former U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare](since Health and Human Services), and [[United States Secretary of Commerce]] Jesse H. Jones. By the 1970s, with the defection of Connally to the [[Republican Party]], Mayborn began to support some GOP candidates.<ref name=bio/>
Mayborn was also a political confidant of Texas [[Democratic Party|Democrats]], President Johnson, [[Governor]] [[John Connally]], and [[U.S. Representative]]s W. R. Poage and [[Sam Rayburn]], the long-term House Speaker. He also advised Oveta Culp Hobby, secretary of the former U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (since the Department of Health and Human Services), and [[United States Secretary of Commerce]] Jesse H. Jones. By the 1970s, with the defection of Connally to the [[Republican Party]], Mayborn began to support some GOP candidates.<ref name=bio/>
===Disputed 1948 U.S. Senate runoff election===
===Disputed 1948 U.S. Senate runoff election===