John Connally

February 27, 1917 – June 15, 1993

American politician who was Governor of Texas from 1963 to 1969 and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1971 to 1972, and was wounded in the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.

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John Bowden Connally Jr. was born in Floresville, Texas, in 1917, one of seven children of a tenant farmer. At the University of Texas at Austin he was student body president, met his wife Nellie, and earned a law degree. He met Lyndon B. Johnson in 1936 and worked for him in Washington from 1939.

Commissioned in the Navy in 1941, he served on the staffs of James Forrestal and Dwight Eisenhower and as a fighter director aboard carriers in the Pacific. After the war he ran a radio station, managed Johnson's 1948 Senate campaign and became a lawyer for the oilman Sid Richardson. Kennedy made him Secretary of the Navy in 1961, but he resigned within the year to run for governor.

Connally won the 1962 Texas governor's race and served three terms, from 1963 to 1969, as a conservative Democrat who expanded higher education. On 22 November 1963 he was riding in the presidential limousine in Dallas and was seriously wounded when Kennedy was assassinated.

Richard Nixon appointed him Treasury Secretary in 1971, and he presided over the Nixon shock that ended the dollar's convertibility to gold. He left in 1972 to lead Democrats for Nixon and joined the Republican Party in May 1973. Acquitted in 1975 of taking a bribe in the milk price case, he sought the 1980 Republican presidential nomination but withdrew after the early primaries. He died in Houston in 1993.