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==Background==
==Background==
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 because it was located 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 ''The 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/>
==Texas media mogul==
==Texas media mogul==