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Aug 9, 2024 · SAM RAYBURN, born on a farm in Roane County, Tennessee in 1882, grew up outside Bonham, Texas and became a famous and powerful Speaker of the House in Washington, D.C. Rayburn was the eighth of…
Sep 3, 2024 · Sam Rayburn, a Democrat from the State of Texas, was the longest-serving Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He served in the House for 48 years, stating late in his career: “I am one man in public life who is satisfied, who has achieved every ambition of his youth.”
4 days ago · Rayburn was born in January 1882 on a small farm in east central Tennessee. Like so many other southerners of the time, life in a rural agricultural region was difficult, to say the least. Sam was the seventh of what would eventually be 10 children, and he and his family scraped out a living from the land. But when Rayburn was 5, his father ...
Jan 27, 2024 · It was built in the early 1940s thanks largely to the political clout of Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn. Originally from nearby Bonham, Texas, Rayburn was known as an unflaggingly loyal, straight-talking, good-to-his-word legislator.
Jan 28, 2024 · For 48 years, Sam Rayburn was an unforgettable presence in Congress and a devoted servant to the people of Northeast Texas. He served with eight presidents and was Speaker of the House of...
5 days ago · Sam Rayburn was a fine student and received a scholarship to attend East Texas Normal College (now Texas A&M-Commerce) in Commerce. He intended to make teaching his career and finished his degree in three years despite holding down a job as a public school teacher at the same time he attended classes.
Jan 17, 2024 · Sam Rayburn, then the speaker of the House, urged a reporter to keep quiet about anything he might have heard. Credit... Getty Images
Dec 21, 2023 · Samuel Taliaferro "Sam" Rayburn (January 6, 1882 – November 16, 1961) a Democratic lawmaker from Bonham, Texas, who served as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives for seventeen years, the longest tenure in U.S. history.
Oct 7, 2023 · Sam Rayburn was the most prominent, and longest serving Speaker of the House in American history, serving a total of 17 years in three rounds as Speaker, from 1941=1947, 1949-1953, and from 1955 to near the end of 1961, when he died in office. A House Office Building is named after him, and only he and Henry Clay served three ...
Jan 27, 2024 · For 48 years, Sam Rayburn was an unforgettable presence in Congress and a devoted servant to the people of Northeast Texas. He served with eight presidents and was Speaker of the House of...
