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  • 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 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
    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 29, 1944
    Jimmie Davis is nominated as the Democratic candidate for governor in the Louisiana state primary
    Nov 7, 1944
    Roy Acuff loses $100 in a bet with Ernest Tubb when Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Thomas Dewey for president
    Nov 2, 1948
    Roy Acuff loses the Tennessee governor's race by a 2-1 margin to his friend, Democrat Gordon Browning
    Nov 4, 1952
    Dwight Eisenhower defeats Adlai Stevenson for president while singer/songwriter Stuart Hamblen, running on the Prohibition ticket, finishes fourth. Because of Stevenson's loss, Ernest Tubb loses $200 in a bet with Eddy Arnold
    Dec 5, 1959
    New Orleans mayor Delesseps Morrison and Jimmie Davis finish one-two among 11 Democratic candidates for governor of Louisiana. They're rematched in a runoff primary election five weeks later
    Jan 9, 1960
    Jimmie Davis wins a runoff election, earning the Democratic party's nomination for governor of Louisiana




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