Malouf Abraham, Sr. was a self-made Texas multi-millionaire in the oil and natural gas business and a political and civic leader from Canadian, the seat of Hemphill County in the northeastern Texas Panhandle. He made his fortune in part by leasing mineral rights throughout the eastern Panhandle adjacent to Oklahoma. Abraham was elected to two two-year terms as mayor of his native Canadian in 1953 and again in 1955.

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  • Malouf Abraham, Sr. was a self-made Texas multi-millionaire in the oil and natural gas business and a political and civic leader from Canadian, the seat of Hemphill County in the northeastern Texas Panhandle. He made his fortune in part by leasing mineral rights throughout the eastern Panhandle adjacent to Oklahoma. Abraham was elected to two two-year terms as mayor of his native Canadian in 1953 and again in 1955. Twelve years later, Abraham entered the Texas House of Representatives (1967-1971) as a Republican member from District 84 (then District 79). In addition to his own Hemphill County, he represented Gray, Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts, and Wheeler counties.
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  • Phillip E. Cates
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  • Fritz Thompson
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  • Malouf Abraham, Jr. (born 1939)
    Betty Abraham Cooper (born 1942)
    Bill Ed Abraham (born 1945)
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  • Canadian, Texas
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  • Abraham once said that he was fortunate to have been defeated in a race in 1970 for the Texas State Senate so that he could devote full-time to his family and business interests. |Republican Abraham prided himself on returning much of his office expense funding to the state treasury. Of Lebanese descent, the Abrahams became one of the most influential families in Canadian, Hemphill County and the entire Texas Panhandle.
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  • Malouf Abraham, Sr.
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  • Fritz Thompson
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  • Iris Lewis Abraham (1918-2001)
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  • Phillip E. Cates
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  • 1957 (xsd:integer)
  • 1971 (xsd:integer)
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  • 1953 (xsd:integer)
  • 1967 (xsd:integer)
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  • 1967–1971
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  • Malouf Abraham, Sr. was a self-made Texas multi-millionaire in the oil and natural gas business and a political and civic leader from Canadian, the seat of Hemphill County in the northeastern Texas Panhandle. He made his fortune in part by leasing mineral rights throughout the eastern Panhandle adjacent to Oklahoma. Abraham was elected to two two-year terms as mayor of his native Canadian in 1953 and again in 1955.
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