Word: klebergs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undersigned Texas voters, hereby respectfully request you to publish the legislative record of the Honorable Richard M. Kleberg, Congressman from the 14th District of Texas...
...record of Representative Richard Mifflin Kleberg is as follows...
Career: If the U. S. were England, Richard Mifflin Kleberg would never have had to do any political campaigning. He would have grown up to inherit a seat in the House of Lords. For he is the elder son of Robert Justus Kleberg, who married Alice Gertrudis King, whose father, Captain Richard King, began in the 1850s to assemble what became not only the biggest ranch in the U. S. but one of the world's most impressive landholdings. Today, dominated by Klebergs, the King Ranch of 1,250,000 acres is twice as big as Rhode Island, nearly...
Little Richard Kleberg was brought to King Ranch at a tender age and grew up there, rough-riding over its vastnesses, clanking his spurs through the palatial ranch house, "Santa Gertrudis," which would put most Newport mansions to shame. His father sent him to law school at the University of Texas, after which he took up his duties as a King-Kleberg, helped manage the ranch from 1911 to 1924. Since then he has been the Kleberg front man. His younger brother Robert Justus Jr. sees to the King's 125,000 head of livestock, including the Klebergs...
Being the front man for a U. S. feudal barony is a job that gives Dick Kleberg plenty of work. For despite certain indications of independence, King is very much a part of the U. S. Its stake in politics may be judged by the fact that a if decline in beef prices shaves $200,000 from the King profits that year, that taxes have more than once exceeded the King payroll...