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==Political career==

==Political career==

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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|author=Richard T. Fleming|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=July 9, 2020}}</ref>​

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) 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|author=Richard T. Fleming|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>​

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>​

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/>​

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]] 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='Southwestern Studies at [[Texas A&M University]]|date=1984|isbn=0-89096-157-3|accessdate=April 16, 2013}}</ref>​

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]] 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=Southwestern Studies at [[Texas A&M University]]|date=1984|isbn=0-89096-157-3|accessdate=JUly 9, 2020}}</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).

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=July 9, 2020}}</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 years==

==Later years==