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George H. Mahon

American politician

Field	Value
name	George H. Mahon
image	George H. Mahon.jpg
caption	Mahon,
order	41st
office	Dean of the United States House of Representatives
term_start	March 7, 1976
term_end	January 3, 1979
predecessor	Wright Patman
successor	Jamie Whitten
office1	Chair of the House Appropriations Committee
term_start1	April 12, 1964
term_end1	January 3, 1979
predecessor1	Clarence Cannon
successor1	Jamie Whitten
state2	Texas
district2
term_start2	January 3, 1935
term_end2	January 3, 1979
predecessor2	Joseph Weldon Bailey Jr.
successor2	Kent Hance
birth_date
birth_place	Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, U.S.
death_date
death_place	San Angelo, Texas, U.S.
party	Democratic
father	John Kirkpatrick Mahon
mother	Lola Willis
spouse
children	1
alma_mater	Hardin–Simmons University
University of Texas School of Law
occupation

University of Texas School of Law George Herman Mahon (September 22, 1900 – November 19, 1985) was an American politician and attorney. A Democrat, he served 22 consecutive terms as a member the United States House of Representatives from Texas.

Biography

Born near Haynesville, Louisiana, Mahon's family moved to Texas when he was a child. He graduated from Hardin–Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, in 1924, and from the University of Texas School of Law in Austin in 1925. Mahon was elected county attorney for Mitchell County, Texas, in 1926, and he served as district attorney of the 32nd judicial district of Texas from 1927 to 1933.

Mahon was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1934. He was a delegate to each Democratic National Convention from 1936 to 1964.

Mahon voted against the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, the Civil Rights Acts of 1960, the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, and the Civil Rights Acts of 1968, which were directed at enforcing constitutional rights for African Americans and other minorities. He also opposed ratification of the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which gave the federal government oversight and enforcement over state practices that discriminated against minority voters.

He was the chairman of the Appropriations committee from 1964 until his retirement from the House in 1979, as well as the Dean of the House for his last three years. Mahon was also appointed on the panel for the Manhattan Project.

After his years in the House, Mahon stayed in Washington to work with the Smithsonian Institution, for which he had served as a regent from 1964 to 1978.

Mahon died on November 19, 1985, in San Angelo, Texas, due to complications from surgery. He is interred in the Loraine City Cemetery in Loraine, Texas.

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