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  Mahon, George H.
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AffiliationDemocratic   
NameGeorge H. Mahon
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Lubbock, Texas , United States
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Born September 22, 1900
Died November 19, 1985 (85 years)
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InfoGeorge Herman Mahon

born in the village of Mahon, near Haynesville, Claiborne Parish, La., September 22, 1900; moved to Texas in 1908 with his family, who settled on a farm near Loraine, Mitchell County; attended the public schools; was graduated from the high school at Loraine, Tex., in 1918; Simmons University, Abilene, Tex., B.A., 1924, and from the law department of the University of Texas at Austin, LL.B., 1925; also attended the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis; was admitted to the bar in 1925 and commenced practice in Colorado (now Colorado City), Tex.; elected county attorney of Mitchell County, Tex., in 1926; district attorney of the thirty-second judicial district of Texas, 1927-1933; delegate to each Democratic National Convention 1936-1964; regent of the Smithsonian Institution, 1964-1978; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the twenty-one succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1979); chairman, Committee on Appropriations (Eighty-eighth through Ninety-fifth Congresses), Joint Committee on Reduction of Federal Expenditures (Ninetieth through Ninety-third Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; was a resident of Colorado City, Tex., until his death on November 19, 1985, in San Angelo, Tex.; interment in Loraine City Cemetery, Loraine, Tex.

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  11/02/1976 TX District 19 Won 54.64% (+9.27%)
  11/05/1974 TX District 19 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/07/1972 TX District 19 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/03/1970 TX District 19 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/05/1968 TX District 19 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/08/1966 TX District 19 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/03/1964 TX District 19 Won 77.62% (+55.24%)
  11/06/1962 TX District 19 Won 67.09% (+34.17%)
  11/08/1960 TX District 19 Won 85.67% (+71.33%)
  11/04/1958 TX District 19 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/06/1956 TX District 19 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/02/1954 TX District 19 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/04/1952 TX District 19 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/07/1950 TX District 19 Won 93.88% (+87.76%)
  07/22/1950 TX District 19 - D Primary Won 89.16% (+78.33%)
  11/02/1948 TX District 19 Won 95.56% (+91.11%)
  11/05/1946 TX District 19 Won 94.59% (+89.18%)
  07/27/1946 TX District 19 - D Primary Won 62.34% (+24.68%)
  11/07/1944 TX District 19 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  07/22/1944 TX District 19 - D Primary Won 66.14% (+32.29%)
  11/03/1942 TX District 19 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/05/1940 TX District 19 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  07/27/1940 TX District 19 - D Primary Won 75.61% (+60.82%)
  11/08/1938 TX District 19 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/03/1936 TX District 19 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/06/1934 TX District 19 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
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