Wayne Wright Connally (March 19, 1923 - December 20, 2000) is a Texas rancher, a Democrat from both houses in the Texas State Legislature, and brother of former US Governor and Finance Minister John Bowden Connally, Jr. , and Merrill Lee Connally, Sr., an actor and a former county judge.
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Connally was born into a family of seven and raised in Floresville, Wilson County seat about thirty miles southeast of San Antonio. His father, John Connally, Sr., was a tenant farmer who had run for county employment. Her mother, former Lela Wright, gave her her middle name. After attending public schools in Floresville and San Antonio, Connally studied at the University of Texas at Austin. He was later enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Force Army, the pioneer of the Air Force.
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In 1964, when John Connally swiftly won for the second of three consecutive two-year periods as governor, Wayne Connally was elected 44 seats in the Texas Representative Council. In 1966, Wayne Connally was elected a member of the state Senate from District 21 and served until January 1973. In 1970's Democrats, he defeated Hispanic activist Erasmo Andrade. With the increasing influence of minorities in the Democratic primaries, Andrade is considered a serious contender. Andrade questioned why Connally opted against the state minimum wage proposal, a teacher pays rise, and supports maintaining state sales tax on food. Wayne Connally, like his brother, a protà ©  © Lyndon B. Johnson, retained his position from an unexpected challenge.
On October 7, 1971, Connally was honored as "Governor for the Day", a tradition among state senators. He was also named president of the Senate pro tempore in both special sessions and for the so-called fourth session during his final two years in office.
Wayne Connally worked with John Connally to lay the groundwork for the first high-level institution in Laredo, the center of Webb County. Texas A & amp; I University in Laredo opened in 1969. In 1993, the institute was expanded and moved as Texas A & amp; M International University.
Connared's chief of staff was Laredo's lawyer, Carlos Zaffirini, Sr., (born 1944). Zaffirni's wife, Judith Zaffirini (born 1946), has occupied the previous Senate seat since her first election in 1986. She is a part-time media assistant for Connally.
Death and inheritance
Connally died in Cody, Wyoming, where he moved in his final years to be near his children. The survivors included two sons, Wyatt Connally and Wesley Connally, and a daughter of Pamela; four grandchildren; his brother, Merrill (who died the following year), and his sister, Blanche Connally Kline. The Texas State Senate introduced a resolution on March 19, 2001, on what would become Connugh's 77th birthday, to recognize his public ministry.
Connally was cremated and his ashes scattered on a family farm in Floresville. A cenotaph was established in his honor at Texas State Cemetery in Austin.
Ralph M. Hall (also born in 1923 and hence a senior member of the Texas delegation to the United States House of Representatives) from Rockwall near Dallas, worked with Connally in the state Senate. The two also faced each other with Lieutenant Governor in the 1972 primary Democrat. Both were defeated by William P. Hobby, Jr., whose mother, Oveta Culp Hobby, owns the Houston Post newspaper. After Connally's death, Hall introduced into his congressional Records his personal honor to his fallen friend: "He is a great senator, really dedicated... so very capable of friendship, and... always responsive to anyone who needs Wayne's overkill is to uphold integrity and responsibility in government... Wayne embodies the Texas persona - and he leaves a legacy of service loyal to the people of his native country whom he loves so much. "
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