Word: yarborough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defensive. In Chicago, Shivers' cautious side came out. He could not forget that, back home, Ralph Yarborough, an independent Democratic lawyer from Austin, was putting on a vigorous campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor. The primary was to be held the Saturday after the convention. Shivers, uneasy about Yarborough, was afraid his delegation might be thrown out of the Chicago convention. As a result, in Chicago he took a defensive rather than an aggressive stand...