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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Waggoner Carr |
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Lubbock, Texas , United States |
| Email | None |
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October 01, 1918
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| Died | February 25, 2004
(85 years)
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| Contributor | DFWDem |
| Last Modifed | David
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| Info | Vincent Waggoner Carr
Elected to the Texas House of Representatives from the 119th District in 1950.
Elected to the Texas House of Representatives from District 97-1 in 1952, 1954, 1956, and 1958.
Carr was born in Fairlie in Hunt County to Vincent and Ruth Carr. The family moved in 1932 to Lubbock, where young Waggoner worked as a farmhand, magazine salesman and theater usher.
He graduated from Lubbock High School and from Texas Technological College in 1940 with a degree in political science. After serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, Carr earned a law degree from the University of Texas and married the former Ernestine Story.
Carr returned to Lubbock and was elected county attorney in 1948. He was elected in 1950 to the state House of Representatives, where he served 10 years. He served as House speaker from 1957 to 1961.
Carr was elected Texas attorney general, serving from 1963 to 1967. He held the state's top law enforcement job during one of the most shocking events in U.S. history, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas.
In 1966, Carr was selected as the nation's outstanding attorney general.
But, like many top Democrats of the era, Carr's political career was broadsided by the Sharpstown Bank scandal. In 1971, he was indicted on charges of fraud, conspiracy and filing false reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Carr, however, was acquitted in 1974 on all counts, saying, "I feel that I have now cleared my name."
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