Earle Bradford Mayfield

Earle Bradford Mayfield ( born April 12, 1881 in Overton, Texas, † June 23, 1964 in Tyler, Texas ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Texas 1923-1929 in the U.S. Senate.

After attending school in East Texas Mayfield made ​​in 1900 graduated from Southwestern University in Georgetown; immediately afterwards he studied law at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1907 he was admitted to the bar, after which he began practicing as a lawyer in Meridian. At the same time he also worked as a businessman in agriculture and in the food wholesale. Between 1907 and 1913 he held a seat in the Senate of Texas; thereafter he was for ten years the state railway committee.

In 1922, Earle Bradford Mayfield was one of six intra-party challengers of the incumbent U.S. Senator Charles A. Culberson. After Culberson, who had been in the Senate since 1899, had already failed prematurely, had a ballot, the decision between the former Texas Governor James E. Ferguson and Mayfield bring, the case was considered a " Ku Klux Klan candidate." The Secret Society supported like Mayfield Prohibition, while Ferguson was regarded as their opponents. Mayfield won the runoff and then also without difficulty, the actual election against the independent candidate George Peddy. This could challenge the result due to alleged irregularities; after two years of investigation, the Senate finally decided to Mayfield's favor.

After six years in office, Mayfield joined again in 1928 for the Democratic primary, but was defeated this time Congressman Tom Connally and thus had at the March 3, 1929 from the Senate retire. In 1930, he ran for his party's nomination for governor, but finished only seventh among eleven candidates. After he retired from politics and worked until 1952 as an attorney in Tyler, where he died in 1964.

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