\"Texas Congressman\" George H Mahon Hand Signed 8X10 B&W Photo For Sale

Up for sale "Texas Congressman" George H Mahon Hand Signed 8X10 B&W Photo. 

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George Herman Mahon (September 22,

1900 – November 19, 1985) was a Texas politician who served twenty-two consecutive terms

(1935–1979) as a member of the United

States House of Representatives from district. His legacies include the development of

federal farm programs, the establishment of the former Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock and Webb Air Force Base in Big Spring, leadership in the development of Interstate 27, a short connection between Amarillo and Lubbock, and disaster relief to West Texas. Mahon was born to John Kirkpatrick Mahon and the

former Lola Willis in the Mahon community near Haynesville in Claiborne the Arkansas state line. In 1908, Mahon's family moved

to Loraine in Mitchell County, Texas,

where young George graduated from Loraine High School. In 1924, he received

his bachelor's University in Abilene. While in college he married the former Helen

Stephenson, and they had one daughter. In 1925, Mahon graduated from the University of Texas Law

School in Austin. Mahon joined a friend, Charlie Thompson, in the

opening of a law firm in Colorado City. He was

elected county attorney for Mitchell County, Texas in

1926. Thereafter, Governor Dan Moody named Mahon district attorney of the thirty-second judicial district

of Texas, a position which he held from 1927 to 1933, having been elected once

after the initial gubernatorial appointment.