Hobby family of Houston, Texas (original) (raw)

Note: This is just one of1,164 family groupings listed on The Political Graveyard web site. These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.

These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.

| | Edwin Hobby — Member of Texas state senate, 1874-79. 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| | | William Pettus Hobby (1878-1964) — also known as William P. Hobby — of Beaumont, Jefferson County, Tex.; Houston, Harris County, Tex. Born in Moscow, Polk County, Tex., March 26, 1878. Democrat. Newspaper editor and publisher; Lieutenant Governor of Texas, 1914-17; Governor of Texas, 1917-21; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1940. Died in Houston, Harris County, Tex., June 7, 1964 (age 86 years, 73 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Tex. | | | Oveta Culp Hobby | Oveta Culp Hobby (1905-1995) — also known as Oveta Culp; Mrs. William P. Hobby — of Houston, Harris County, Tex. Born in Killeen, Bell County, Tex., January 19, 1905. Democrat. Parliamentarian, Texas House of Representatives, 1926-31, 1939-41; served in Women's Army Corps during World War II; president, editor and publisher of Houston Post newspaper; director, radio station KPRC; U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1953-55; member, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55.Female.Episcopalian. Member, Junior League. Inducted, National Women's Hall of Fame, 1996. Died, from a stroke, in Houston, Harris County, Tex., August 16, 1995 (age 90 years, 209 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Tex. _Relatives:_Daughter of I. W. Culp and Emma (Hoover) Culp; married, February 23, 1931, to William Pettus Hobby; mother of Jessica Hobby (who married Henry Edward Catto Jr.) and William Pettus Hobby Jr.; grandmother of Paul William Hobby. Political family: Hobby family of Houston, Texas. See also Wikipedia articleNNDB dossierFind-A-Grave memorialNational Women's Hall of Fame Image source: Eminent Americans (1954) | | | Henry Edward Catto Jr. (b. 1930) — also known as Henry E. Catto, Jr. — of Texas. Born in San Antonio, Bexar County, Tex., December 6, 1930.Insurance broker; candidate for Texas state house of representatives, 1960; U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, 1971-73; Great Britain, 1989-91; director, U.S. Information Agency, 1991. Still living as of 2014. | | | | William Pettus Hobby Jr. (b. 1932) — also known as William P. Hobby, Jr.; Bill Hobby — of Houston, Harris County, Tex. Born in Houston, Harris County, Tex., January 19, 1932. Democrat. Lieutenant Governor of Texas, 1973-91; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1980,1984.Episcopalian. Still living as of 1995. | | | | Paul William Hobby — also known as Paul Hobby — Democrat. Candidate for Texas state comptroller, 1998. Still living as of 1998. | |

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