branch death_date children nationality birth_date term_end death_place preceded term_start spouse name occupation succeeded relations birth_place party office parents religion article_title
united states army 30 may 1994 malouf abraham , jr. -lrb- born 1939 -rrb- american 26 july 1915 1971 1957 canadian , texas fritz thompson -lrb- district 86 -rrb- jess lindley 1967 1953 iris lewis abraham malouf abraham , sr. . oil and natural gas industrialist ; philanthropist phil curly '' owens cates -lrb- district 79 -rrb- l. b. `` tom abraham -lrb- brother -rrb- canadian hemphill county texas , usa republican texas 79 ; now district 88 -rrb- in texas panhandle mayor state of canadian , texas representative from district 84 -lrb- later district nahim and alia abraham presbyterian malouf abraham , sr. .

malouf abraham , sr. .

malouf abraham , sr. , also known as oofie abraham -lrb- july 26 , 1915 -- may 30 , 1994 -rrb- , was a self-made texas multi-millionaire in the oil and natural gas business and a political and civic leader from canadian , the county seat of hemphill county in the northeastern texas panhandle .
he made his fortune in part by leasing mineral rights throughout the eastern panhandle adjacent to oklahoma .
