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===1974 gubernatorial race===

===1974 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], Jr., 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 like Granberry a United States Air Force veteran,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25419623/odell-lavon-mcbrayer|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.

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]], Jr., 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 like Granberry a United States Air Force veteran,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25419623/odell-lavon-mcbrayer|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 President Nixon. Dolph Briscoe defeated Granberry in the strongly Democratic year. Briscoe polled 1,016,334 votes (61.4 percent), compared to Granberry's 514,725 (31.1 percent) and 93,295 for the [[Hispanic]] Raza Unida Party nominee, 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]], a state senator from [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], because of a much lower turnout in 1974.

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 President Nixon. Voters even punished Republican candidates who had nothing to do with Watergate. Briscoe defeated Granberry, 1,016,334 votes (61.4 percent), compared to Granberry's 514,725 (31.1 percent) and 93,295 for the [[Hispanic]] Raza Unida Party nominee, 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]], a state senator from [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], because of a much lower turnout in 1974.

[[Image:Jim Granberry of TX.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Granberry in his later years]]

[[Image:Jim Granberry of TX.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Granberry in his later years]]