district succeeded death_date religion birth_place party term_end preceded birth_date term_start article_title state name occupation alma_mater
20th paul j. kilday 7 june 1954 roman catholic san antonio , texas democrat january 3 , 1939 district created 23 october 1895 january 3 , 1935 maury maverick
 texas maury maverick attorney university of texas , austin
maury maverick

fontaine maury maverick -lrb- october 23 , 1895 -- june 7 , 1954 -rrb- was a democratic member of the united states house of representatives from texas , representing the 20th district from january 3 , 1935 , to january 3 , 1939 .
he is best remembered for his independence from the party and for coining the term `` gobbledygook '' for obscure and euphemistic bureaucratic language .
maverick was born in san antonio , texas , the son of albert and jane lewis -lrb- maury -rrb- maverick .
his grandfather was samuel maverick , one of the signers of the texas declaration of independence and the source of the word maverick .
he studied at , the virginia military institute , and the university of texas .
he was admitted to the bar in 1916 and practiced law in san antonio .
he was a first lieutenant in the infantry in world war i and earned the silver star and the purple heart .
in the 1920s , he was involved in the lumber and mortgage businesses .
from 1929 to 1931 , he was the elected tax collector for bexar county .
he was elected to the seventy-fourth congress in 1934 , with support from the hispanic population of his district , and re-elected to the seventy-fifth .
during his 1934 campaign , maverick enlisted lyndon johnson , a then little-known congressional secretary , to work for him during the democratic primary .
in the house , he was an ardent champion of franklin delano roosevelt 's new deal .
he angered the conservative democrats running the party back in texas , including john nance garner .
he was defeated in the primary for a third term in 1938 .
he returned to texas where he was elected mayor of san antonio , again with support from minority voters , serving from 1939 to 1941 , when he was labeled a communist and defeated .
during world war ii , he worked for the office of price administration , the office of personnel management , and served on the war production board and the smaller war plants corporation .
after the war , he practiced law in san antonio .
he was a cousin of congressmen abram poindexter maury and john w. fishburne of virginia and nephew of congressman james luther slayden of texas , who married ellen -lrb- maury -rrb- at a maury home called `` piedmont '' in charlottesville , virginia , which is now a part of the u.va .
they are related to matthew fontaine maury , dabney herndon maury , and the early and prominent fontaine , dabney , brooke , minor , mercer , herndon , slaughter , and slayden families of virginia , tennessee , and texas .
maverick married terrell dobbs and had a daughter and a son , san antonio newspaper editorialist maury maverick , jr. , who died in 2003 at the age of 82 .
