Maury Maverick, Jr. (1921-2003) was a San Antonio attorney, columnist, activist, and former Texas legislator. The son of New Deal Congressman and San Antonio mayor Maury Maverick, Sr., Maverick attended the Texas Military Institute (1935-1938) and the University of Texas, earning his B.A. in 1942. During the Second World War, he served with the Marine Corps in the South Pacific. In 1949, he completed his law degree at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio.
A three-term member of the Texas House of Representatives (1950-1956), Maverick
championed labor and civil rights. He opposed anti-Communist legislation and was a
member of the so-called,
As an attorney, Maverick specialized in civil rights cases, often working pro bono
for the American Civil Liberties Union. On a number of occasions, Maverick argued
before the U.S. Supreme Court, including the landmark case
In 1979, Maverick left the legal profession and began writing a weekly political
column for the
Source:
Uhler, David.
Arranged into eight series composing campaign materials, correspondence, news clippings, notes, subject files, briefs, court decisions, motions, reports, photographs, and scrapbooks the Maury Maverick, Jr., Papers, [ca. 1835-2003], document the life of politician, attorney, columnist, and civil rights activist Maury Maverick, Jr. The U.S. Senate Campaign series, 1960-1961 details Maverick’s unsuccessful bid for Lyndon Johnson’s vacated U.S. Senate seat. Correspondence, campaign materials, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks are filed either by county or assorted categories created by Maverick and his staff.
Primarily consisting of correspondence Personal series, 1858, 1921-1987, chronicles Maverick’s relationships with his family, friends, political leaders, legal and judicial colleagues, and writers and journalists. Notable correspondents include T.R. Fehrenbach, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, George McGovern, Walter Prescott Webb, and Ralph Yarborough. Some correspondence belongs to Maury Maverick Sr., addressing his time as a U.S. Congressman. Also in the Personal series are notes, photographs, and scrapbooks.
Maverick’s columns from the
Comprising correspondence, briefs, motions, pleadings, research notes, court
decisions, press releases, and printed material the Legal series, 1953-1983,
document his years as a civil rights attorney in San Antonio. Among the cases of
note are
Scrapbooks, 1954, 1961, illustrate Maverick’s the 1954 special legislative session in Texas and his U.S. Senate campaign. Photographs, 1921-1983, primarily depict members of the Maverick family. Additional Material contains printed material, correspondence, subject files, campaign material, photographs, notes, and scrapbooks. These files retain their original arrangement and labeling, and reflect Maverick’s political, legal, and personal interests.
The papers are arraged into eight series:
A portion of these papers is restricted.
A portion of these papers is stored remotely. Advance notice required for retrieval. Contact repository for retrieval.
Maury Maverick Jr., Papers, [ca. 1835-2000], Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
Some material has been separated to the Briscoe Center's Library Unit.
See also
See also
This collection was processed by Robert McDonald, 1984.
Subsequent revisions were made by Lynn Bell, RObert McDonald, Sandra Gamel, and Ann Massmar, 1990; Evan Usler, April 2011; and Mark Firmin, April 2012