Sam Rayburn

Lyndon was born in Texas on august 27, 1908 his family had settled prior to the Civil War. He was born in a nearby town called Johnson City. His father was a rancher and part time politician, but Lyndon did not inherit the family’s ranching talent. Which caused Lyndon to run into finical difficulty losing the family ranch at an early teenage year. Lyndon’s family was some of the earliest settlers in Texas before they all had been cattlemen, cotton farmers and soldiers for the confederacy. Lyndon…

1.Columbus Marion (dad) Joiner, son of James and Lucy Joiner, was born near Center Star, Alabama on March 12, 1860. C.M. Joiner began law practice in Tennessee and was a member of the legislature of that state from 1889-1891. Joiner moved to Oklahoma in 1897 where he started his journey in the oil industry but unfortunately failed two times before moving to Texas in 1926. Despite being put down and discouraged by geologists, Joiner was sure of the possibility of the oil deposits east of the…

George Washington said to use measures to avoid the political problems that plagued political parties. Nonetheless less two parties became the two major parties in politics at the time. They were the Federalist Party founded in 1789 and led by American founding father Alexander Hamilton and the Democratic-Republican Party was founded in 1791 led by founding father and third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Washington’s warning about political parties didn’t last very long and…