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[[Image:Connally.jpg|right|275px|thumb|John Connally in 1976]] '''John Bowden Connally, Jr.''' (February 27, 1917 – June 15, 1993), was both a [[Democrat]] and [[Republican]] Party policitician who served as Governor of Texas from 1963-1969. He has the unique position of having served as a cabint secretary for two different Presidents in different political parties.
{{Infobox officeholder
|name=John Bowden Connally, Jr.
|image=Connally.jpg
|office=61st [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]]
|president= [[Richard Nixon]]
|term_start= February 11, 1971
|term_end= June 12, 1972
|predecessor=David M. Kennedy
|successor=[[George Shultz]]
|office2=39th [[Governor]] of [[Texas]]
|term_start2=January 15, 1963
|term_end2=January 21, 1969
|predecessor2=Price Daniel
|successor2=[[Preston Smith]]
|office3=[[United States Secretary of the Navy]]
|president3=[[John F. Kennedy]]
|term_start3=January 25, 1961
|term_end3=December 20, 1961
|predecessor3=William B. Franke
|successor3=Fred Korth
|birth_date=February 27, 1917
|birth_place=Floresville, Texas
|death_date=June 15, 1993
|death_place=[Houston, Texas|Houston]], Texas
|resting_place=[[Texas State Cemetery]] at [[Austin]]
|spouse=Nellie Brill Connally (married 1940-1993, his death)
|relations=Merrill Connally and Wayne Connally (brothers)
|children=Four children
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]-turned-[[Republican Party|Republican]] (1973)
|alma_mater=[[University of Texas at Austin]]<br>
UT School of Law
|occupation=[[Lawyer]]; [[business]]man<br>
[[United States Navy]] in [[World War II]]
}}
'''John Bowden Connally, Jr.''' (February 27, 1917 – June 15, 1993), was both a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] and [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[politician]] who served as [[governor]] of his native [[Texas]] from 1963 to 1969. He served in the Cabinet of both [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Richard M. Nixon]].
Connally was commissioned in the [[United States Navy]] Reserve in 1941, where he went through nine major air-sea battles in the [[Pacific]]. In April 1945 he endured fifty-two consecutive hours of Japanese kamikaze attacks. He was credited as a hero and rose to the rank of lieutenant commander. He returned home to work in politics and worked for [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]'s 1946 reelection campaign to [[Congress]] and his 1948 Senatorial Campaign. There where allegations that Connally had been involved in [[voter fraud]] after a suspicious late report of 200 votes in Box 13 from Jim Wells County came in for Johnson, resulting in his 87-vote victory.
Connally was commissioned in the [[United States Navy]] Reserve in 1941, where he went through nine major air-sea battles in the [[Pacific]]. In April 1945 he endured fifty-two consecutive hours of Japanese kamikaze attacks. He was credited as a hero and rose to the rank of lieutenant commander. He returned home to work in politics and worked for [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]'s 1946 reelection campaign to [[Congress]] and his 1948 Senatorial Campaign. There where allegations that Connally had been involved in [[voter fraud]] after a suspicious late report of 200 votes in Box 13 from Jim Wells County came in for Johnson, resulting in his 87-vote victory.
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