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During [[World War II]], Peddy, then in his early fifties, volunteered for further military service and attained the rank of [[lieutenant colonel]]. He served as a staff officer for the United States Third Army from the invasion of [[Normandy]] until the end of the war in [[Europe]] in May 1945. Peddy was then named as the deputy military governor of [[Frankfurt]], [[Germany]]. He was awarded both the [[Bronze Star]] and the French Croix de Guerre.<ref name=tshaonline/>
During [[World War II]], Peddy, then in his early fifties, volunteered for further military service and attained the rank of [[lieutenant colonel]]. He served as a staff officer for the United States Third Army from the invasion of [[Normandy]] until the end of the war in [[Europe]] in May 1945. Peddy was then named as the deputy military governor of [[Frankfurt]], [[Germany]]. He was awarded both the [[Bronze Star]] and the French Croix de Guerre.<ref name=tshaonline/>
In 1948, Peddy entered the Democratic primary for United States Senator from Texas to succeed the retiring W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel (1890-1969) and polled nearly 20 percent of the vote, sufficient to force his two major opponents, former Governor Coke Robert Stevenson (1888-1975) and then [[U.S. Representative]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] into a runoff election in which Johnson was long criticized for stealing the election with eighty-seven disputed ballots in Jim Wells County, a machine county, in South Texas.
In 1948, Peddy entered the Democratic primary for United States Senator from Texas to succeed the retiring Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel (1890-1969) and polled nearly 20 percent of the vote, sufficient to force his two major opponents, former Governor Coke Robert Stevenson (1888-1975) and then [[U.S. Representative]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] into a runoff election in which Johnson was long criticized for stealing the election with eighty-seven disputed ballots in Jim Wells County, a machine county, in South Texas. He ran on a strongly [[states' rights]] and [[Communism|anticommunist]] platform.<ref name=tshaonline/>
Peddy died shortly before his 59th birthday while he was serving as the chairman of the Texas Cancer Crusade in Houston. He is interred at Ramah Cemetery in Tenaha.<ref name=tshaonline/>
Peddy died shortly before his 59th birthday while he was serving as the chairman of the Texas Cancer Crusade in Houston. He is interred at Ramah Cemetery in Tenaha.<ref name=tshaonline/>