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'''George Edwin Bailey Peddy''' (August 22, 1892 – June 13, 1951) was a [[Texas]] [[attorney]] and [[politician]] who ran in 1922 as a combination [[Independent voter||Independent]] [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] and [[Republican Party|Republican]] write-in candidate for the [[United States Senate]].

'''George Edwin Bailey Peddy''' (August 22, 1892 – June 13, 1951) was a [[Texas]] [[attorney]] and [[politician]] who ran in 1922 as a combination [[Independent voter|Independent]] [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] and [[Republican Party|Republican]] write-in candidate for the [[United States Senate]].

He was defeated by the  Democratic [[nominee]], Earle Bradford Mayfield (1881-1964), an outgoing member of the Texas Railroad Commission. A native of  Overton in East Texas, Mayfield carried the backing of the [[Ku Klux Klan]], which Peddy opposed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fma91|title=Mayfield, Earle Bradford|author=Frank H. Smyrl|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=July 9, 2020}}</ref>​

He was defeated by the  Democratic [[nominee]], Earle Bradford Mayfield (1881-1964), an outgoing member of the Texas Railroad Commission. A native of  Overton in East Texas, Mayfield carried the backing of the [[Ku Klux Klan]], which Peddy opposed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fma91|title=Mayfield, Earle Bradford|author=Frank H. Smyrl|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=July 9, 2020}}</ref>​

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 Stevenson|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/>​

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 Stevenson|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/>

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