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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=George Edwin Bailey Peddy
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office= [[Texas]] State Representative for District 8 (Shelby County)
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| term_start=January 9, 1917
| term_end=September 10, 1917
| preceded=Willie B. Savage<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=2734&searchparams=chamber=H~city=~countyID=0~RcountyID=~district=8~first=~gender=~last=~leaderNote=~leg=34~party=Democrat~roleDesc=~Committee=|title=Willie Savage|publisher=lrl.state.tx.us|accessdate=July 9, 2020}}</ref>
| succeeded=John C. Rogers
| birth_place=Tenaha, Shelby County, Texas
| birth_date=August 22, 1892
| death_date=June 13, 1951 (aged 58)
| death_place=[[Houston, Texas|Houston]], Texas
| resting_place=Ramah Cemetery in Tenaha, Texas
| occupation=[[Attorney]] for Vinson & Elkins
| spouse=Gertrude Irwin Peddy (married 1921-1951, his death)
| children=Reared two of his nephews by marriage
| alma_mater=[[University of Texas]]<br>
University of Texas School of Law
| branch=[[United States Army]]
| rank=[[Lieutenant colonel]]
| battles=[[World War I]]<br>
[[World War II]] - Invasion of [[Normandy]]
|awards=[[Bronze Star]]<br>
Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (France)]]}}
'''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|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=July 9, 2020}</ref>
==Background==
Peddy was born on a farm near Tenaha Shelby County, also in East Texas. He was the seventh son of William Henry Peddy and the former Laura Gertrude Chambers. His father died soon after Peddy's birth, and Peddy worked as a young man to help support his mother.
He completed his undergraduate studies at the [[University of Texas]] in [[Austin]]. In 1920, he graduated from the University of Texas School of Law.<ref name=tshaonline/>
==Early political career==
Peddy was the UT student body president in 1917 as well as the District 8 state representative for Shelby County. He opposed the policies of [[Governor]] James Edward "Pa" Ferguson (1871-1944)ies regarding UT funding and procedures but, like Ferguson, was a strong opponent of the Klan. During [[World War I]], Peddy accepted a commission as a captain in the [[United States Army]].<ref name=tshaonline>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fpe13|title=George Edwin Bailey Peddy|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=July 9, 2020}}</ref>
While in training at Camp Funston in [[Kansas]], he obtained leave to attend the [[impeachment]] proceedings against Governor Ferguson, which resulted in Ferguson's conviction in the state Senate and removal from office. Ferguson was succeeded by then Lieutenant Governor William Pettus Hobby, Sr. (1978-1964), to the governorship. Peddy resigned his House seat on September 10, 1917 to complete his military duties.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=2776&searchparams=chamber=~city=~countyID=0~RcountyID=~district=~first=George~gender=~last=Peddy~leaderNote=~leg=~party=~roleDesc=~Committee=|title=George Edwin Bailey Peddy|publisher=Legislative Reference Library of Texas|accessdate=July 9, 2020}}</ref>
With his law degree in hand, Peddy and two former classmates established a law practice in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]. For two years, he was the assistant district attorney for Harris County. Peddy was then appointed as the assistant United States Attorney assigned to prosecute [[mail fraud]] cases.<ref name=tshaonline/>
==Senate race==
Because the Klan was backing Mayfield for the Senate, a group known as the "Independent Democrats" met in [[Dallas]] on September 16, 1922 to nominate Peddy to run in the [[general election]] scheduled for November 7. The longtime incumbent senator, Charles Allen Culberson (1855-1925), had been eliminated in the primary in which Peddy had supported Ferguson against Mayfield because of the Klan question.
Democratic Party regulars managed to keep Peddy's name off the general election ballot, and so Mayfield was unopposed. Mayfield's critics said that his ties to the Klan disqualified him from being a Democrat. Mayfield, like the Klan, supported [[prohibition]], but Ferguson favored legal sales of alcoholic beverages despite being illegal anywhere in the United States by the former [[18th Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]]. The Republican leadership endorsed Peddy, but it was too late to place a candidate for senator on the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] line.<ref name=tshaonline/>
Among those working to elect Peddy to the Senate by encouraging the write-in against Mayfield and raising campaign funds were two Republican industrialists from [[Wichita Falls]] in North Texas, [[Frank Kell|Franklin Marian "Frank" Kell]] (1859-1941) and his son-in-law, [[Orville Bullington]], later the GOP state party chairman.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=1LV8z4R_6_wC&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=Frank+Kell+and+the+1920+Republican+presidential+campaign&source=bl&ots=GiAZcdmonF&sig=KqxZ8K2EjajQ6TDAbh6q_2UJn4I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pXNsUYOnG4LrqQGMwIGwBA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=one|page=122|publisher=[[Texas A&M University]] ''Southwestern Studies''|date=1984|isbn=0-89096-157-3|accessdate=April 16, 2013}}</ref>
Peddy polled 130,744 (33 percent) write-in votes, compared to Mayfield's 264,260 ballots (67 percent. Thereafter, Peddy challenged Mayfield's election before the Senate itself, mostly because Peddy had been kept off the ballot because of filing deadlines. The challenge succeeded only in delaying Mayfield's seating by nine months.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/contested_elections/103Peddy_Mayfield.htm|title=The Election Case of George E. B. Peddy v. Earle B. Mayfield of Texas|date=1925|publisher=[[United States Senate]]senate.gov|accessdate=April 16, 2013}}</ref> Mayfield was unseated for a second term in the Democratic runoff primary in 1928 by fellow Democrat Thomas Terry "Tom" Connally (1877-1963).
==Later life==
From 1925 to 1942, Peddy practiced with the prominent Houston firm Vinson & Elkins.<ref name=tshaonline/>
==Later years==
During [[World War II]], Peddy, then in his early fifties, volunteered for further military service and attained the rank of [[lieutenant colonel]]. He served as a staff officer for the United States Third Army from the invasion of [[Normandy]] until the end of the war in [[Europe]] in May 1945. Peddy was then named as the deputy military governor of [[Frankfurt]], [[Germany]]. He was awarded both the [[Bronze Star]] and the French Croix de Guerre.<ref name=tshaonline/>
In 1948, Peddy entered the Democratic primary for United States Senator from Texas to succeed the retiring W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel (1890-1969) and polled nearly 20 percent of the vote, sufficient to force his two major opponents, former Governor 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.
Peddy ran on a strongly [[states' rights]] and [[Communism|anticommunist]] platform.<ref name=tshaonline/>
In 1921, Peddy married the former Gertrude Irwin; they reared two of her nephews. 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/>
==References==
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[[Category:Democrats]]
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[[Category:Anti-Communism]]
| name=George Edwin Bailey Peddy
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office= [[Texas]] State Representative for District 8 (Shelby County)
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| term_start=January 9, 1917
| term_end=September 10, 1917
| preceded=Willie B. Savage<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=2734&searchparams=chamber=H~city=~countyID=0~RcountyID=~district=8~first=~gender=~last=~leaderNote=~leg=34~party=Democrat~roleDesc=~Committee=|title=Willie Savage|publisher=lrl.state.tx.us|accessdate=July 9, 2020}}</ref>
| succeeded=John C. Rogers
| birth_place=Tenaha, Shelby County, Texas
| birth_date=August 22, 1892
| death_date=June 13, 1951 (aged 58)
| death_place=[[Houston, Texas|Houston]], Texas
| resting_place=Ramah Cemetery in Tenaha, Texas
| occupation=[[Attorney]] for Vinson & Elkins
| spouse=Gertrude Irwin Peddy (married 1921-1951, his death)
| children=Reared two of his nephews by marriage
| alma_mater=[[University of Texas]]<br>
University of Texas School of Law
| branch=[[United States Army]]
| rank=[[Lieutenant colonel]]
| battles=[[World War I]]<br>
[[World War II]] - Invasion of [[Normandy]]
|awards=[[Bronze Star]]<br>
Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (France)]]}}
'''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|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=July 9, 2020}</ref>
==Background==
Peddy was born on a farm near Tenaha Shelby County, also in East Texas. He was the seventh son of William Henry Peddy and the former Laura Gertrude Chambers. His father died soon after Peddy's birth, and Peddy worked as a young man to help support his mother.
He completed his undergraduate studies at the [[University of Texas]] in [[Austin]]. In 1920, he graduated from the University of Texas School of Law.<ref name=tshaonline/>
==Early political career==
Peddy was the UT student body president in 1917 as well as the District 8 state representative for Shelby County. He opposed the policies of [[Governor]] James Edward "Pa" Ferguson (1871-1944)ies regarding UT funding and procedures but, like Ferguson, was a strong opponent of the Klan. During [[World War I]], Peddy accepted a commission as a captain in the [[United States Army]].<ref name=tshaonline>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fpe13|title=George Edwin Bailey Peddy|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=July 9, 2020}}</ref>
While in training at Camp Funston in [[Kansas]], he obtained leave to attend the [[impeachment]] proceedings against Governor Ferguson, which resulted in Ferguson's conviction in the state Senate and removal from office. Ferguson was succeeded by then Lieutenant Governor William Pettus Hobby, Sr. (1978-1964), to the governorship. Peddy resigned his House seat on September 10, 1917 to complete his military duties.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=2776&searchparams=chamber=~city=~countyID=0~RcountyID=~district=~first=George~gender=~last=Peddy~leaderNote=~leg=~party=~roleDesc=~Committee=|title=George Edwin Bailey Peddy|publisher=Legislative Reference Library of Texas|accessdate=July 9, 2020}}</ref>
With his law degree in hand, Peddy and two former classmates established a law practice in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]. For two years, he was the assistant district attorney for Harris County. Peddy was then appointed as the assistant United States Attorney assigned to prosecute [[mail fraud]] cases.<ref name=tshaonline/>
==Senate race==
Because the Klan was backing Mayfield for the Senate, a group known as the "Independent Democrats" met in [[Dallas]] on September 16, 1922 to nominate Peddy to run in the [[general election]] scheduled for November 7. The longtime incumbent senator, Charles Allen Culberson (1855-1925), had been eliminated in the primary in which Peddy had supported Ferguson against Mayfield because of the Klan question.
Democratic Party regulars managed to keep Peddy's name off the general election ballot, and so Mayfield was unopposed. Mayfield's critics said that his ties to the Klan disqualified him from being a Democrat. Mayfield, like the Klan, supported [[prohibition]], but Ferguson favored legal sales of alcoholic beverages despite being illegal anywhere in the United States by the former [[18th Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]]. The Republican leadership endorsed Peddy, but it was too late to place a candidate for senator on the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] line.<ref name=tshaonline/>
Among those working to elect Peddy to the Senate by encouraging the write-in against Mayfield and raising campaign funds were two Republican industrialists from [[Wichita Falls]] in North Texas, [[Frank Kell|Franklin Marian "Frank" Kell]] (1859-1941) and his son-in-law, [[Orville Bullington]], later the GOP state party chairman.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=1LV8z4R_6_wC&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=Frank+Kell+and+the+1920+Republican+presidential+campaign&source=bl&ots=GiAZcdmonF&sig=KqxZ8K2EjajQ6TDAbh6q_2UJn4I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pXNsUYOnG4LrqQGMwIGwBA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=one|page=122|publisher=[[Texas A&M University]] ''Southwestern Studies''|date=1984|isbn=0-89096-157-3|accessdate=April 16, 2013}}</ref>
Peddy polled 130,744 (33 percent) write-in votes, compared to Mayfield's 264,260 ballots (67 percent. Thereafter, Peddy challenged Mayfield's election before the Senate itself, mostly because Peddy had been kept off the ballot because of filing deadlines. The challenge succeeded only in delaying Mayfield's seating by nine months.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/contested_elections/103Peddy_Mayfield.htm|title=The Election Case of George E. B. Peddy v. Earle B. Mayfield of Texas|date=1925|publisher=[[United States Senate]]senate.gov|accessdate=April 16, 2013}}</ref> Mayfield was unseated for a second term in the Democratic runoff primary in 1928 by fellow Democrat Thomas Terry "Tom" Connally (1877-1963).
==Later life==
From 1925 to 1942, Peddy practiced with the prominent Houston firm Vinson & Elkins.<ref name=tshaonline/>
==Later years==
During [[World War II]], Peddy, then in his early fifties, volunteered for further military service and attained the rank of [[lieutenant colonel]]. He served as a staff officer for the United States Third Army from the invasion of [[Normandy]] until the end of the war in [[Europe]] in May 1945. Peddy was then named as the deputy military governor of [[Frankfurt]], [[Germany]]. He was awarded both the [[Bronze Star]] and the French Croix de Guerre.<ref name=tshaonline/>
In 1948, Peddy entered the Democratic primary for United States Senator from Texas to succeed the retiring W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel (1890-1969) and polled nearly 20 percent of the vote, sufficient to force his two major opponents, former Governor 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.
Peddy ran on a strongly [[states' rights]] and [[Communism|anticommunist]] platform.<ref name=tshaonline/>
In 1921, Peddy married the former Gertrude Irwin; they reared two of her nephews. 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/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Peddy, George}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Independents]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:World War I]]
[[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Bronze Star Medal]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (France)]]
[[Category:Anti-Communism]]