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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Max Ray Sherman
| image=Max Sherman of TX.jpg
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
|office=[[Texa]] State Senator<br>for District 31 (Panhandle)
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|term_start=1971
|term_end=1977
|preceded=[[Grady Hazlewood]]
|succeeded=Robert Dale "Bob" Price
|office2=[[List of Presidents pro tempore of the Texas Senate|Texas Senate President Pro Tempore]]
|term_start2=1974
|term_end2=1974
|preceded2=[[O.H. "Ike" Harris]]
|succeeded2=James P. Wallace
|birth_date=January 19, 1935
|birth_place=Viola, Fulton County,<br> [[Arkansas]
|death_date=
|death_place=
|residence=[[Austin]], Texas
|occupation=[Attorney]]<br>College president
|alma_mater=[[Baylor University]]<br>
[[University of Texas]] Law School
|spouse=Gene Alice Wienbroer (married 1961)
|children=Two children
|footnotes='''Note''':
Sherman was voted the "Best Member of the Legislature" by ''Texas Monthly'' [[magazine]] during his state senate tenure.
|branch=[[United States Army]]
|rank=[[Captain]] in Judge Advocate General's Corps
}}
'''Max Ray Sherman''' (born January 19, 1935) is a former [[Texas]] state senator who represented from 1971 to 1977 the Panhandle district encompassing [[Amarillo]] and the Panhandle. He was also president of West Texas A&M University in Canyon in Randall County and the dean of the [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] School of Public Affairs at the [[University of Texas]] [[Austin]].
==Bakground==
Sherman was born in Vilola in Fulton County in northern [[Arkansas]], next to the [[Missouri]] state line. As an infant, he moved to the now ghost town of Phillips in Hutchinson County in the Texas Panhandle. At Phillips High School, he was the student body and class president. He received a scholarship from Phillips Petroleum Company and served as a monitor in a freshman dormitory to pay his expenses in attending [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]]. He also sold [[Bible]]s door-to-door during the summers. At Baylor, Sherman was elected student body president and designated the "Most Representative" senior male student. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1957 and then enrolled in law school in Austin, where he currently resides. He graduated from law school with honors in 1960.<ref name=agn>{{cite web|url=http://www.amarillo.com/stories/051900/his_sherman.html|author=Greg Cunningham |title=Max Sherman |date=May 19, 2000|publisher=''Amarillo Globe-News''|accessdate=April 15, 2010}}</ref> After graduation, Sherman enlisted in the [[United States Army]] and was thereafter commissioned as a [[Captain]] in the [[Judge Advocate General's Corps]].<ref name=agn/>
==Legislator and college official==
Upon leaving the army, Sherman joined the Amarillo law firm of Gibson, Ochsner, Adkins, Harlan, and Hankins. In time, he became a partner.<ref name=agn/>
In November 1970, he was elected as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] to state Senate District 31. He defeated the [[Republican Party)|Republican]] [[nominee]], [[Malouf Abraham, Sr.]], an oilman and two-term state representative from Canadian in Hemphill County. Sherman received 37,593 votes (52.8 percent) to Abraham's 33,637 (47.2 percent). In that same election, the [[Houston, Texas|Houston]] Democrat [[Lloyd M. Bentsen]] defeated future [[U.S. President]] [[George Herbert Walker Bush]], then a departing [[U.S. Representative]] from Houston, for one of the two Texas seats in the [[U.S. Senate]].<ref>''Texas Almanac 1972/1973," Election returns from November 3, 1970.</ref> Sherman served on several Senate committees and was the Senate President Pro Tempore in 1974. During his tenure, Sherman was named "Best Member of the Legislature" by ''Texas Monthly'' [[magazine]].<ref name=agn/>
In 1977, Sherman left the Senate to become president of then West Texas State University. He left the presidency in 1982 to run unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for Texas attorney general, a post vacated by [[Mark Wells White]], who instead ran successfully for [[governor]]. U.S. Representative [[Jim Mattox]] of [[Dallas]] won the nomination for attorney general and then defeated in the [[general election]] the Republican [[Bill Meier]], then a state senator from Tarrant County. In 1983, for several months, Sherman worked as special counsel in the administration of Governor White, who had unseated Republican [[Bill Clements]] of Dallas. In 1983, Sherman was named the dean of the LBJ School in Austin. He retired as administrator in 1997 but retained the chair in state and local government and taught courses thereafter on ethics and government.<ref name=agn/>
==Honors and legacy==
When Sherman announced his retirement as dean, the Texas Senate passed a resolution to honor him. At the ceremony, the late Senator [[Teel Bivins]], an Amarillo Republican, described Sherman as "our most distinguished Panhandle resident."<ref name=agn/> In 1988, the Lyndon B. Johnson Library published Sherman's book, ''The Future of Texas.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2237187?lookfor=author:%22Lyndon%20Baines%20Johnson%20Library%22&offset=8&max=11|title=''The Future of Texas''|publisher=catalogue.nla.gov|accessdate=April 15, 2010}}</ref> In 2007, Sherman edited the book, ''Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder,'' speeches from the late U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan of Texas.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=684Qqf1CTL4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Max+Sherman&source=bl&ots=TPDtv5vdgp&sig=UDSQ-SnzIUIdj2gdqwJOeR2KGrI&hl=en&ei=ymbHS9GoBZOi9QT9nsiZCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CBkQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=''Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder''|publisher=Google Books|accessdate=April 15, 2010}}</ref>
In 1998, Sherman was named "Texan of the Year" by the Advisory Committee of the Texas Legislative Conference. In 2000, Sherman, along with Malouf Abraham, Teel Bivins, Texas Railroad Commissioner [[Ernest O. Thompson]], [[Timothy Dwight Hobart]], the founder of Pampa, Texas, and the Amarillo [[clergy]]man [[W. Winfred Moore]], was named among the "100 Most Influential Persons of the High Plains" in the 20th century.<ref name=agn/>
In 1961, Sherman married the former Gene Alice Wienbroer (born c. 1937) of Borger, also in Hutchinson County. The couple has two children. Retired in Austin, Sherman has taken up the hobby of fly fishing.<ref name=agn/>
==References==
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[[Category:United States Army]]
| name=Max Ray Sherman
| image=Max Sherman of TX.jpg
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
|office=[[Texa]] State Senator<br>for District 31 (Panhandle)
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|term_start=1971
|term_end=1977
|preceded=[[Grady Hazlewood]]
|succeeded=Robert Dale "Bob" Price
|office2=[[List of Presidents pro tempore of the Texas Senate|Texas Senate President Pro Tempore]]
|term_start2=1974
|term_end2=1974
|preceded2=[[O.H. "Ike" Harris]]
|succeeded2=James P. Wallace
|birth_date=January 19, 1935
|birth_place=Viola, Fulton County,<br> [[Arkansas]
|death_date=
|death_place=
|residence=[[Austin]], Texas
|occupation=[Attorney]]<br>College president
|alma_mater=[[Baylor University]]<br>
[[University of Texas]] Law School
|spouse=Gene Alice Wienbroer (married 1961)
|children=Two children
|footnotes='''Note''':
Sherman was voted the "Best Member of the Legislature" by ''Texas Monthly'' [[magazine]] during his state senate tenure.
|branch=[[United States Army]]
|rank=[[Captain]] in Judge Advocate General's Corps
}}
'''Max Ray Sherman''' (born January 19, 1935) is a former [[Texas]] state senator who represented from 1971 to 1977 the Panhandle district encompassing [[Amarillo]] and the Panhandle. He was also president of West Texas A&M University in Canyon in Randall County and the dean of the [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] School of Public Affairs at the [[University of Texas]] [[Austin]].
==Bakground==
Sherman was born in Vilola in Fulton County in northern [[Arkansas]], next to the [[Missouri]] state line. As an infant, he moved to the now ghost town of Phillips in Hutchinson County in the Texas Panhandle. At Phillips High School, he was the student body and class president. He received a scholarship from Phillips Petroleum Company and served as a monitor in a freshman dormitory to pay his expenses in attending [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]]. He also sold [[Bible]]s door-to-door during the summers. At Baylor, Sherman was elected student body president and designated the "Most Representative" senior male student. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1957 and then enrolled in law school in Austin, where he currently resides. He graduated from law school with honors in 1960.<ref name=agn>{{cite web|url=http://www.amarillo.com/stories/051900/his_sherman.html|author=Greg Cunningham |title=Max Sherman |date=May 19, 2000|publisher=''Amarillo Globe-News''|accessdate=April 15, 2010}}</ref> After graduation, Sherman enlisted in the [[United States Army]] and was thereafter commissioned as a [[Captain]] in the [[Judge Advocate General's Corps]].<ref name=agn/>
==Legislator and college official==
Upon leaving the army, Sherman joined the Amarillo law firm of Gibson, Ochsner, Adkins, Harlan, and Hankins. In time, he became a partner.<ref name=agn/>
In November 1970, he was elected as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] to state Senate District 31. He defeated the [[Republican Party)|Republican]] [[nominee]], [[Malouf Abraham, Sr.]], an oilman and two-term state representative from Canadian in Hemphill County. Sherman received 37,593 votes (52.8 percent) to Abraham's 33,637 (47.2 percent). In that same election, the [[Houston, Texas|Houston]] Democrat [[Lloyd M. Bentsen]] defeated future [[U.S. President]] [[George Herbert Walker Bush]], then a departing [[U.S. Representative]] from Houston, for one of the two Texas seats in the [[U.S. Senate]].<ref>''Texas Almanac 1972/1973," Election returns from November 3, 1970.</ref> Sherman served on several Senate committees and was the Senate President Pro Tempore in 1974. During his tenure, Sherman was named "Best Member of the Legislature" by ''Texas Monthly'' [[magazine]].<ref name=agn/>
In 1977, Sherman left the Senate to become president of then West Texas State University. He left the presidency in 1982 to run unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for Texas attorney general, a post vacated by [[Mark Wells White]], who instead ran successfully for [[governor]]. U.S. Representative [[Jim Mattox]] of [[Dallas]] won the nomination for attorney general and then defeated in the [[general election]] the Republican [[Bill Meier]], then a state senator from Tarrant County. In 1983, for several months, Sherman worked as special counsel in the administration of Governor White, who had unseated Republican [[Bill Clements]] of Dallas. In 1983, Sherman was named the dean of the LBJ School in Austin. He retired as administrator in 1997 but retained the chair in state and local government and taught courses thereafter on ethics and government.<ref name=agn/>
==Honors and legacy==
When Sherman announced his retirement as dean, the Texas Senate passed a resolution to honor him. At the ceremony, the late Senator [[Teel Bivins]], an Amarillo Republican, described Sherman as "our most distinguished Panhandle resident."<ref name=agn/> In 1988, the Lyndon B. Johnson Library published Sherman's book, ''The Future of Texas.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2237187?lookfor=author:%22Lyndon%20Baines%20Johnson%20Library%22&offset=8&max=11|title=''The Future of Texas''|publisher=catalogue.nla.gov|accessdate=April 15, 2010}}</ref> In 2007, Sherman edited the book, ''Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder,'' speeches from the late U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan of Texas.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=684Qqf1CTL4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Max+Sherman&source=bl&ots=TPDtv5vdgp&sig=UDSQ-SnzIUIdj2gdqwJOeR2KGrI&hl=en&ei=ymbHS9GoBZOi9QT9nsiZCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CBkQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=''Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder''|publisher=Google Books|accessdate=April 15, 2010}}</ref>
In 1998, Sherman was named "Texan of the Year" by the Advisory Committee of the Texas Legislative Conference. In 2000, Sherman, along with Malouf Abraham, Teel Bivins, Texas Railroad Commissioner [[Ernest O. Thompson]], [[Timothy Dwight Hobart]], the founder of Pampa, Texas, and the Amarillo [[clergy]]man [[W. Winfred Moore]], was named among the "100 Most Influential Persons of the High Plains" in the 20th century.<ref name=agn/>
In 1961, Sherman married the former Gene Alice Wienbroer (born c. 1937) of Borger, also in Hutchinson County. The couple has two children. Retired in Austin, Sherman has taken up the hobby of fly fishing.<ref name=agn/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sherman, Max}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Arkansas]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Texas lawyers]]
[[Category:United States Army]]