Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel was a radio personality and a Democratic Party politician from Texas. O'Daniel was born in Malta, Ohio, and as a young child moved to Reno County, Kansas. He worked in the flour milling business and moved to Fort Worth, Texas, in 1925 to work for Burrus Mills. O'Daniel soon took over its radio advertising, wrote songs, and hired a group of musicians. His band was originally called the Light Crust Doughboys.
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- Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel was a radio personality and a Democratic Party politician from Texas. O'Daniel was born in Malta, Ohio, and as a young child moved to Reno County, Kansas. He worked in the flour milling business and moved to Fort Worth, Texas, in 1925 to work for Burrus Mills. O'Daniel soon took over its radio advertising, wrote songs, and hired a group of musicians. His band was originally called the Light Crust Doughboys. Notable musicians such as Bob Wills got their start with O'Daniel. After the Doughboys split up, O'Daniel formed the Western Swing band Pappy O'Daniel and his Hillbilly Boys. The new group was named after O'Daniel's Hillbilly Flour Company. see Pat O'Daniel and his Hillbilly Boys In 1938, he ran for governor of Texas as a Democrat. O'Daniel's campaign hailed his flour and the need for pensions and tax cuts. He promised to block a sales tax and raise pensions. O'Daniel won the Democratic party primary election easily with 51% of the vote over 12 opponents. In office, he proposed a new sales tax, which was voted down by the Texas Legislature. He handily won re-election in 1940. In both elections, his main competition came from Texas Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson, the former mayor of Amarillo. In 1941, O'Daniel ran for the United States Senate in a special election. He defeated Lyndon Johnson by 1,306 votes in one of the more controversial elections in state history. His victory made him the only person to ever defeat Johnson for elected office. As a senator, O'Daniel was ineffective, and most of his legislation was defeated. He endorsed the Texas Regulars in the 1944 presidential election. O'Daniel refused to run for another term in 1948, but ran for governor of Texas in 1956 and 1958 and claimed that the Brown v. Board of Education decision was part of a communist conspiracy. He finished third in the Democratic primaries both times. The film O Brother, Where Art Thou? featured a character named Menelaus "Pappy" O'Daniel as governor of Mississippi, loosely based on the real O'Daniel. The film's character was played by Charles Durning.
- Wilbert Lee O’Daniel war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker und von 1939 bis 1941 Gouverneur des Bundesstaates Texas. Zwischen 1941 und 1949 vertrat er seinen Staat im US-Senat.
- Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel, född 11 mars 1890 i Malta, Ohio, död 11 maj 1969 i Dallas, Texas, var en amerikansk demokratisk politiker och radiopersonlighet. Han var guvernör i delstaten Texas 1939-1941. Han representerade Texas i 1941-1949. O'Daniel gifte sig 30 juni 1917 med Merle Estella Butcher i Hutchinson, Kansas. Paret fick tre barn. Familjen flyttade 1925 till Fort Worth där O'Daniel anställdes av Burrus Mills. Han fick 1928 ansvaret för företagets radioreklam. Han grundade musikgruppen Light Crust Doughboys och skrev låtar, allt för att sälja mjöl. O'Daniels band, där Bob Wills och Milton Brown medverkade, var betydelsefull för utvecklingen av musikstilen western swing. Senare bildades bandet Pat O'Daniel and His Hillbilly Boys där O'Daniels son Pat var orkesterledare. I det femton minuter långa radioprogrammet spelade bandet låtar som gjorde reklam för Hillbilly Brand-mjöl och Pappy O'Daniel predikade. I demokraternas primärval inför guvernörsvalet i Texas 1938 fick O'Daniel 51% av rösterna. Han hade tolv motkandidater i primärvalet. Han vann sedan själva guvernörsvalet och omvaldes två år senare. I fyllnadsvalet 1941 besegrade Pappy O'Daniel knappt kongressledamoten Lyndon B. Johnson och efterträdde Andrew Jackson Houston som senator för Texas. O'Daniel omvaldes 1942. Han stödde gruppen Texas Regulars som ville förhindra återvalet av Franklin D. Roosevelt i presidentvalet i USA 1944. Texas Regulars bestod av konservativa demokrater i Texas som var missnöjda med regeringens politik. O'Daniel kandiderade inte till omval i senatsvalet 1948 och efterträddes som senator av Johnson. O'Daniel var baptist. Hans grav finns på begravningsplatsen Hillcrest Memorial Park i Dallas. I filmen O Brother, Where Art Thou? finns en fiktiv guvernör i Mississippi som heter Menelaus "Pappy" O'Daniel.
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- Wilbert Lee O’Daniel war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker und von 1939 bis 1941 Gouverneur des Bundesstaates Texas. Zwischen 1941 und 1949 vertrat er seinen Staat im US-Senat.
- Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel, född 11 mars 1890 i Malta, Ohio, död 11 maj 1969 i Dallas, Texas, var en amerikansk demokratisk politiker och radiopersonlighet. Han var guvernör i delstaten Texas 1939-1941. Han representerade Texas i 1941-1949. O'Daniel gifte sig 30 juni 1917 med Merle Estella Butcher i Hutchinson, Kansas. Paret fick tre barn. Familjen flyttade 1925 till Fort Worth där O'Daniel anställdes av Burrus Mills. Han fick 1928 ansvaret för företagets radioreklam.
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