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==Political career==

==Political career==

Kubiak entered the state House when his brother ran instead, unsuccessfully, for Texas land commissioner in the 1982 Democratic primary. Nominated and elected as land commissioner Garry Mauro, the last Democrat to have served as land commissioner. L. B. Kubiak did not seek reelection to the House in 1990 so that his brother could again seek the seat, which he had filled previously from 1969 to 1983.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/pub/user_form.asp?pers_id=3216|title=Daniel Kubiak|publisher=Texas State Cemetery|accessdate=April 6, 2020}}</ref>  

Kubiak entered the state House when his brother ran instead, unsuccessfully, for Texas land commissioner in the 1982 Democratic primary. Nominated and elected as land commissioner Garry Mauro (born 1948), who served from 1983 to 1999 as the last Democrat land commissioner. L. B. Kubiak did not seek reelection to the House in 1990 so that his brother could again seek the seat, which he had filled previously from 1969 to 1983.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/pub/user_form.asp?pers_id=3216|title=Daniel Kubiak|publisher=Texas State Cemetery|accessdate=April 6, 2020}}</ref>  

When his brother died in office in 1998 while campaigning for reelection to the Texas House in District 17, Kubiak, with the encouragement of [[Speaker]] James "Pete" Laney, sought to become the replacement Democratic nominee. Instead the Democratic county chairmen in the district nominated Theodora Vanderwerth "Teddy" Boehm of Brenham in Washington County in the southern portion of the district. She was married to  a former trustee president of Blinn College in Brenham. Kubiak not only refused to support Boehm but endorsed the successful [[Republican Party|Republican]] nominee, Charles B. Jones of College Station. In the [[general election]] held on November 3, 1998, Jones narrowly defeated Boehm, 16,034 votes (51 percent) to 15,406 (49 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 3, 1998.</ref>

When his brother died in office in 1998 while campaigning for reelection to the Texas House in District 17, Kubiak, with the encouragement of [[Speaker]] James "Pete" Laney, sought to become the replacement Democratic nominee. Instead the Democratic county chairmen in the district nominated Theodora Vanderwerth "Teddy" Boehm of Brenham in Washington County in the southern portion of the district. She was married to  a former trustee president of Blinn College in Brenham. Kubiak not only refused to support Boehm but endorsed the successful [[Republican Party|Republican]] nominee, Charles B. Jones of College Station. In the [[general election]] held on November 3, 1998, Jones narrowly defeated Boehm, 16,034 votes (51 percent) to 15,406 (49 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 3, 1998.</ref>