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    • Jul 13, 1938
    With Texas gubernatorial candidate W. Lee O'Daniel invoking the name of late western-swing pioneer Milton Brown in campaign speeches, Brown's father, Barty, prints up fliers distancing his son from his former employer, saying O'Daniel was "insincere" and paid "starvation wages"
    Jul 23, 1938
    "Pappy" O'Daniel, who came to fame as the founder of The Light Crust Doughboys, wins Texas' Democratic primary for governor
    Nov 8, 1938
    W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel is elected governor of Texas. O'Daniel founded The Light Crust Doughboys, a western swing band that represented a Fort Worth flour mill. The band helped establish Milton Brown and Bob Wills
    Jun 28, 1941
    Texas governor Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel defeats Lyndon Baines Johnson in a special election for the U.S. Senate, winning by a narrow 1,311 votes. O'Daniel founded the pioneering western swing band The Light Crust Doughboys
    Oct 15, 1943
    The Sumner Press, of Gallatin, Tennessee, reports a petition has been filed that makes Roy Acuff the first candidate to run for governor. The action was apparently taken without Acuff's knowledge
    Oct 20, 1943
    A nominating petition is mailed to Tennessee's Democratic chairman, Russell Kramer, requesting that Roy Acuff's name be placed on the ballot in August in the state's primary for governor
    Oct 23, 1943
    Country singer Jimmie Davis announces in Jonesboro, Louisiana, that he intends to run for governor
    Jan 31, 1944
    Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jimmie Davis is advanced to a run-off vote in the first primary of the election season in Louisiana
    Feb 7, 1944
    Roy Acuff withdraws his candidacy for governor of Tennessee
    Feb 29, 1944
    Jimmie Davis is nominated as the Democratic candidate for governor in the Louisiana state primary



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