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{{Infobox officeholder
| image=Jim and Edwina Granberry of TX.jpg
| name=James Harlan "Jim" Granberry, Sr.
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office= [[Mayor]] of [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]], [[United States|USA]]
| party=[[Republican Party |Republican Party]]
| term_start=April 23, 1970
| term_end=1972
| preceded=W. D. "Dub" Rogers, Jr.
| succeeded=[[Morris W. Turner]]
| office2=Lubbock City Councilman
| term_start2=1966
| term_end2=1970
| birth_date=June 23, 1932
| death_date=March 5, 2021 (aged 89)
| birth_place=Lindale, Smith County, Texas
| death_place=
| resting_place=
| occupation=[[Orthodontist]] and [[Business]]man
| residence=Hideway near [[Tyler, Texas|Tyler]]<br>Smith County, Texas
| spouse= Edwina Brown Granberry (married 1954-2021, his death)
| children=Leslie Granberry Hamilton (born 1961)<br>
James Granberry, Jr. (born 1965)<br>
Zachary Granberry (born 1967)<br>
Tim Granberry (born 1968)<br>
Susan Jane Granberry Mitchell (born 1970)<br>
Grandchildren: May not be full list<br>
Allie Granberry (born 1997)<br>
Ryan Granberry (born 1997)<br>
Grant Granberry (born 1999)<br>
McKenna Granberry (born 1999)<br>
Aidan Granberry (born 2001)<br>
Brooke Granberry (born 2007)<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Henry and Mary Granberry
| religion=
}}
'''James Harlan Granberry, Sr.''', known as '''Jim Granberry''' (June 23, 1932 – March 5, 2021 ), was an [[orthodonitst]] and [[business]]man remembered as the [[mayor]] of [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]], who guided the city through a series of [[tornado]]es that shattered the region on May 11, 1970.<ref>{{cite web|url=Former Lubbock Mayor Granberry, who helped lead city after 1970 tornado, dies at 89 (lubbockonline.com)|title=Former Lubbock Mayor Granberry, who helped lead city after 1970 tornado, dies at 89|author=Adam D. Young|publisher=''the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=March 7, 2021|accessdate=March 9, 2021}}</ref>
Nineteen days after he became mayor, the tornadoes struck the city. Granberry said that he and a united city council mobilized to direct the rebuilding of the city. He said that he was limited in what could be accomplished but termed Mayor Pro Tempore [[Deaton Rigsby]] his "right-hand man" in the reconstruction.<ref>{{cite web|url=Former Lubbock councilman, school trustee Rigsby dies - News - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - Lubbock, TX (lubbockonline.com)|title=Former Lubbock councilman, school trustee Rigsby dies|author=Adam D. Young|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=May 6, 2019|accessdate=March 9, 2021}}</ref>
Granberry did not seek reelection in 1972 and was succeeded by [[Morris W. Turner]]. Earlier from 1966 to 1970, he was a member of the city council. Mayors and council members in Texas are all officially [[nonpartisan]], but Granberry was known to be a [[Republican Party|Republican]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mylife.com/James Granberry/e332317423356|title=James Granberry (H), 88 - Hideaway, TX|publisher=mylife.com|accessdate=March 9, 2021}}</ref>
Granberry was one of ten children of Henry and Mary Granberry. He was reared in Lindale in Smith County, south of [[Tyler, Texas|Tyler]] in East Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=Travis Dean Granberry (1935-2004) |publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate =March 7, 2021}}</ref>
==Gubernatorial race==
In 1974, Granberry was the GOP nominee for [[governor]] of Texas but carried only 7 of the 254 counties and hence lost the [[general election]] by a wide margin to [[incumbent]] [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Governor [[Dolph Briscoe]] of Uvalde. Granberry was opposed for the Republican gubernatorial nomination by [[Odell McBrayer]], the candidate of what later became known as the "Religious Right." Granberry handily defeated McBrayer, an [[attorney]] and [[United States Air Force]] veteran,<ref>{{cite web|url=Odell Lavon McBrayer (1930-2008)|title=Odell McBrayer|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=March 9, 2021}}</ref> Granberry polled 53,617 votes (77.6 percent) to McBrayer's 15,489 ballots (22.4 percent) in a low-turnout [[primary]] election.
Granberry was the choice of Republican [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Tower]], the nominal head of the Texas GOP at the time. He would carry his party's tattered banner in the year in which the national party was dragged down by the [[Watergate]] affair, which had forced the resignation of [[U.S. President]] [[Richard M. Nixon]].
Dolph Briscoe hence defeated Granberry in the strongly Democratic year. Briscoe polled 1,016,334 votes (61.4 percent), compared to 514,725 (31.1 percent) for Granberry, and 93,295 for the [[Hispanic]] Raza Unida Party nominee, [[Ramsey Muniz|Ramsey Muñiz]], who had also been the La Raza candidate in 1972 against Briscoe. Another approximately thirty thousand ballots were cast in the 1974 contest for other candidates. Briscoe, who had served the last two-year gubernatorial term in Texas, therefore became the first Texas governor to win a four-year term since the establishment of the Texas Constitution of 1876.<ref>Texas Secretary of State, General election returns, November 5, 1974.</ref> Briscoe polled 617,159 fewer votes against Granberry than he had with his initial election in 1972 against the [[conservative]] Republican [[Henry C. Grover]]of [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], because of a much lower turnout in 1974.
==Later years==
In 1989, [[Bill Clements|William Perry "Bill" Clements, Jr.]], the first Texas Republican governor since [[Reconstruction], appointed Granberry as chairman of the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. He resigned in the summer of 1991. He left Lubbock in 1993.
Granberry and his surviving widow, the former Edwina Brown (born 1937) have five children, James H. Granberry, Jr. (born 1965), who practices law in [[Bryan, Texas|Bryan]] in Brazos County. Another son, Zach Granberry (born 1967), lives in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]. The other children are Tim Granberry, Susan Granberry Mitchell, and Leslie Granberry Hamilton (formerly Lesie Meekis).
In his later years, Granberry, an [[orthodontist]], returned in 1993 to his native Smith County in East Texas and was living in Hideaway in Smith County.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Granberry, James}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Dentists]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Mayors]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
| image=Jim and Edwina Granberry of TX.jpg
| name=James Harlan "Jim" Granberry, Sr.
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office= [[Mayor]] of [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]], [[United States|USA]]
| party=[[Republican Party |Republican Party]]
| term_start=April 23, 1970
| term_end=1972
| preceded=W. D. "Dub" Rogers, Jr.
| succeeded=[[Morris W. Turner]]
| office2=Lubbock City Councilman
| term_start2=1966
| term_end2=1970
| birth_date=June 23, 1932
| death_date=March 5, 2021 (aged 89)
| birth_place=Lindale, Smith County, Texas
| death_place=
| resting_place=
| occupation=[[Orthodontist]] and [[Business]]man
| residence=Hideway near [[Tyler, Texas|Tyler]]<br>Smith County, Texas
| spouse= Edwina Brown Granberry (married 1954-2021, his death)
| children=Leslie Granberry Hamilton (born 1961)<br>
James Granberry, Jr. (born 1965)<br>
Zachary Granberry (born 1967)<br>
Tim Granberry (born 1968)<br>
Susan Jane Granberry Mitchell (born 1970)<br>
Grandchildren: May not be full list<br>
Allie Granberry (born 1997)<br>
Ryan Granberry (born 1997)<br>
Grant Granberry (born 1999)<br>
McKenna Granberry (born 1999)<br>
Aidan Granberry (born 2001)<br>
Brooke Granberry (born 2007)<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Henry and Mary Granberry
| religion=
}}
'''James Harlan Granberry, Sr.''', known as '''Jim Granberry''' (June 23, 1932 – March 5, 2021 ), was an [[orthodonitst]] and [[business]]man remembered as the [[mayor]] of [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]], who guided the city through a series of [[tornado]]es that shattered the region on May 11, 1970.<ref>{{cite web|url=Former Lubbock Mayor Granberry, who helped lead city after 1970 tornado, dies at 89 (lubbockonline.com)|title=Former Lubbock Mayor Granberry, who helped lead city after 1970 tornado, dies at 89|author=Adam D. Young|publisher=''the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=March 7, 2021|accessdate=March 9, 2021}}</ref>
Nineteen days after he became mayor, the tornadoes struck the city. Granberry said that he and a united city council mobilized to direct the rebuilding of the city. He said that he was limited in what could be accomplished but termed Mayor Pro Tempore [[Deaton Rigsby]] his "right-hand man" in the reconstruction.<ref>{{cite web|url=Former Lubbock councilman, school trustee Rigsby dies - News - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - Lubbock, TX (lubbockonline.com)|title=Former Lubbock councilman, school trustee Rigsby dies|author=Adam D. Young|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=May 6, 2019|accessdate=March 9, 2021}}</ref>
Granberry did not seek reelection in 1972 and was succeeded by [[Morris W. Turner]]. Earlier from 1966 to 1970, he was a member of the city council. Mayors and council members in Texas are all officially [[nonpartisan]], but Granberry was known to be a [[Republican Party|Republican]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mylife.com/James Granberry/e332317423356|title=James Granberry (H), 88 - Hideaway, TX|publisher=mylife.com|accessdate=March 9, 2021}}</ref>
Granberry was one of ten children of Henry and Mary Granberry. He was reared in Lindale in Smith County, south of [[Tyler, Texas|Tyler]] in East Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=Travis Dean Granberry (1935-2004) |publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate =March 7, 2021}}</ref>
==Gubernatorial race==
In 1974, Granberry was the GOP nominee for [[governor]] of Texas but carried only 7 of the 254 counties and hence lost the [[general election]] by a wide margin to [[incumbent]] [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Governor [[Dolph Briscoe]] of Uvalde. Granberry was opposed for the Republican gubernatorial nomination by [[Odell McBrayer]], the candidate of what later became known as the "Religious Right." Granberry handily defeated McBrayer, an [[attorney]] and [[United States Air Force]] veteran,<ref>{{cite web|url=Odell Lavon McBrayer (1930-2008)|title=Odell McBrayer|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=March 9, 2021}}</ref> Granberry polled 53,617 votes (77.6 percent) to McBrayer's 15,489 ballots (22.4 percent) in a low-turnout [[primary]] election.
Granberry was the choice of Republican [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Tower]], the nominal head of the Texas GOP at the time. He would carry his party's tattered banner in the year in which the national party was dragged down by the [[Watergate]] affair, which had forced the resignation of [[U.S. President]] [[Richard M. Nixon]].
Dolph Briscoe hence defeated Granberry in the strongly Democratic year. Briscoe polled 1,016,334 votes (61.4 percent), compared to 514,725 (31.1 percent) for Granberry, and 93,295 for the [[Hispanic]] Raza Unida Party nominee, [[Ramsey Muniz|Ramsey Muñiz]], who had also been the La Raza candidate in 1972 against Briscoe. Another approximately thirty thousand ballots were cast in the 1974 contest for other candidates. Briscoe, who had served the last two-year gubernatorial term in Texas, therefore became the first Texas governor to win a four-year term since the establishment of the Texas Constitution of 1876.<ref>Texas Secretary of State, General election returns, November 5, 1974.</ref> Briscoe polled 617,159 fewer votes against Granberry than he had with his initial election in 1972 against the [[conservative]] Republican [[Henry C. Grover]]of [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], because of a much lower turnout in 1974.
==Later years==
In 1989, [[Bill Clements|William Perry "Bill" Clements, Jr.]], the first Texas Republican governor since [[Reconstruction], appointed Granberry as chairman of the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. He resigned in the summer of 1991. He left Lubbock in 1993.
Granberry and his surviving widow, the former Edwina Brown (born 1937) have five children, James H. Granberry, Jr. (born 1965), who practices law in [[Bryan, Texas|Bryan]] in Brazos County. Another son, Zach Granberry (born 1967), lives in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]. The other children are Tim Granberry, Susan Granberry Mitchell, and Leslie Granberry Hamilton (formerly Lesie Meekis).
In his later years, Granberry, an [[orthodontist]], returned in 1993 to his native Smith County in East Texas and was living in Hideaway in Smith County.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Granberry, James}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Dentists]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Mayors]]
[[Category:Republicans]]