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| death_place=Hideaway, Smith County
| death_place=Hideaway, Smith County
| resting_place=Hopewell Cemetery in Swan in Smith County
| resting_place=Hopewell Cemetery in Swan in Smith County
| occupation=Orthodontist from 1961 to 1983<br>
| occupation=[[Dentist]] from 1961 to 1983<br>
[[Business]]man
[[Business]]man
| residence=Hideway, Smith County, Texas
| residence=Hideway, Smith County, Texas
==Political career==
==Political career==
Granberry was a member of the Texas State Republican Executive Committee and a delegatd to the 1972 [[Republican National Convention]], which met in [[Miami Beach, [[Florida]], to re-nominate the [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]]-[[Spiro Agnew|Agnew]] ticket. He served on the Lubbock City Council from 1966 to 1970 and was mayor pro tempore in 1966.<ref name=obit/>
Granberry was a member of the Texas State Republican Executive Committee and a delegate to the 1972 [[Republican National Convention]], which met in [[Miami Beach, [[Florida]], to re-nominate the [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]]-[[Spiro Agnew|Agnew]] ticket. He served on the Lubbock City Council from 1966 to 1970 and was mayor pro tempore in 1966.<ref name=obit/>
In 1970, he was handily elected as Lubbock’s youngest mayor in history. Only nineteen days in office, Lubbock was struck by a devastating tornado which struck the heart of the citya and left twenty-six person daead and thousands injured or homeless. Because of his management of tornado reconstruction, President Nixon appointed him to serve on the Peruvian Earthquake Voluntary Assistance Group, in which capacity he traveled four times to [[Peru]] to help in the recovery from their 1970 earthquake.<ref name=obit/>
In 1970, he was handily elected as Lubbock’s youngest mayor in history. Only nineteen days in office, Lubbock was struck by a devastating tornado which struck the heart of the citya and left twenty-six person daead and thousands injured or homeless. Because of his management of tornado reconstruction, President Nixon appointed him to serve on the Peruvian Earthquake Voluntary Assistance Group, in which capacity he traveled four times to [[Peru]] to help in the recovery from their 1970 earthquake.<ref name=obit/>