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Jim Mattox, 1943 - 2008

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Gardner Selby has this report at the Austin American-Statesman website.Jim Mattox, a fiery Democrat whose career brought him from Dallas to Austin to Washington and then back to Austin, has died in his sleep, a former spokesman, Kelly Fero, said today. The former Texas attorney general was 65. Mattox, who lived in Dripping Springs west of Austin, was born in Dallas on Aug. 29, 1943, the first of three children of Norman and Mary Katheryn Harrison. His father was a union sheetmetal worker, and his mother was a waitress.My deepest condolence to his wife Marta and their children, his sister Janice, and brother Jerry.It was only this morning in looking through the Statesman that I saw an obituary of Joe Cipriano.  Following the 1982 election, when a ticket of Democrats swept the state elections - and Jim Mattox was elected Attorney General, Joe led a team of Coopers & Lybrand consultants who took a top-to-bottom look at the AG's office...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 20, 2008 (boomark / email).