George H. Mahon

A Representative from Texas. Born in the village of Mahon, near Haynesville, Claiborne Parish, La. , September 22, 1900. Moved to Texas in 1908 with his family, who settled on a farm near Loraine, Mitchell County. Attended the public schools. Was graduated from the high school at Loraine, Tex. , in 1918. Simmons University, Abilene, Tex. , B. A. , 1924, and from the law department of the University of Texas at Austin, LL. B. , 1925. Also attended the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. Was admitted to the bar in 1925 and commenced practice in Colorado (now Colorado City), Tex. Elected county attorney of Mitchell County, Tex. , in 1926. District attorney of the thirty-second judicial district of Texas, 1927-1933. Delegate to each Democratic National Convention 1936-1964. Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, 1964-1978. Elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the twenty-one succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1979). Chairman, Committee on Appropriations (Eighty-eighth through Ninety-fifth Congresses), Joint Committee on Reduction of Federal Expenditures (Ninetieth through Ninety-third Congresses). Was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress. Was a resident of Colorado City, Tex. , until his death on November 19, 1985, in San Angelo, Tex. Interment in Loraine City Cemetery, Loraine, Tex.