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==State senator==
==State senator==
After thirteen years in private law practice in Wichita Falls, Farabee entered the 1974 Democratic primary for the state Senate. He defeated veteran State Representative Charles Finnell of Holliday in Archer County.<ref name=google>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ykEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=Ray+Farabee&source=bl&ots=9tybsGokUI&sig=o6hEDXAjyKLoWNW1xKX6OaalDeg&hl=en&ei=mkocS6biIYiWtgeh39XUAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CBwQ6AEwCTgo#v=onepage&q=Ray%20Farabee&f=false|title=Country Boys: When rural Democrats got together to fill a vacancy on the ballot, they weren’t about to choose a city girl|author=Patricia Kilday Heart|publisher=''Texas Monthly''|volume=16|issue=7|pages=90–95|accessdate=December 5, 2009}}</ref>
After thirteen years in private law practice in Wichita Falls, Farabee entered the 1974 Democratic primary for the state Senate. He defeated veteran State Representative Charles Finnell of Holliday in Archer County.<ref name=google>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ykEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=Ray+Farabee&source=bl&ots=9tybsGokUI&sig=o6hEDXAjyKLoWNW1xKX6OaalDeg&hl=en&ei=mkocS6biIYiWtgeh39XUAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CBwQ6AEwCTgo#v=onepage&q=Ray%20Farabee&f=false|title=Country Boys: When rural Democrats got together to fill a vacancy on the ballot, they weren’t about to choose a city girl|author=Patricia Kilday Hart|publisher=''Texas Monthly''|volume=16|issue=7|pages=90–95|accessdate=December 5, 2009}}</ref>
The incumbent state senator, Jack Hightower, ran instead for the [[United States House of Representatives]] and unseated the [[Republican Party|Republican]] Robert "Bob" Price, who had been first elected to the Panhandle-area district in 1966. The U.S. House district was altered after the 1970 census to include Wichita Falls and [[Amarillo]] and territory in between in the same sprawling district.
The incumbent state senator, Jack Hightower, ran instead for the [[United States House of Representatives]] and unseated the [[Republican Party|Republican]] Robert "Bob" Price, who had been first elected to the Panhandle-area district in 1966. The U.S. House district was altered after the 1970 census to include Wichita Falls and [[Amarillo]] and territory in between in the same sprawling district.