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    • Mar 11, 1890
    Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel is born in Malta, Ohio. The sales manager for the Burrus Mill founds the Milton Brown-led Light Crust Doughboys, a key development in the growth of western swing. He later becomes a Texas governor and a U.S. senator
    Jun 30, 1917
    Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel marries Merle Estella Butcher in Hutchinson, Kansas. He assembles western swing's Light Crust Doughboys in Fort Worth several years later while working as a sales executive for Burrus Mills
    Jul 4, 1925
    W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel takes a job as the sales manager for the Burrus Mill in Fort Worth, Texas. To advertise the company's product, he employs The Light Crust Doughboys, a western-swing band that graduates both Milton Brown and Bob Wills
    Apr 12, 1938
    W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel, who founded The Light Crust Doughboys, announces his candidacy for governor of Texas
    May 1, 1938
    Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel files paperwork to run for Texas governor. The founder of The Light Crust Doughboys, which introduced such western swing figures as Bob Wills and Milton Brown, O'Daniel wins the election in 1938 and again in 1940
    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
    May 11, 1969
    Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel dies at Baylor Hospital in Dallas. The former Texas governor and senator founded The Light Crust Doughboys to advertise the Burrus Mill in the 1930s, when he was a sales manager for the firm. It proved a seminal act in the growth of western swing
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