Sam Rayburn
politico statunitense
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (6 gennaio 1882 – 16 novembre 1961) è stato un politico statunitense originario di Bonham, in Texas.
Fu lo speaker della camera dei rappresentanti degli Stati Uniti per 17 anni. A lui è dedicato il Bacino Sam Rayburn, un lago artificiale presso Beaumont.
Bibliografia
- Robert A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (1982).
- Anthony Champagne and Floyd F. Ewing, "RAYBURN, SAMUEL TALIAFERRO (1882-1961)." Handbook of Texas Online (2005) online version
- Anthony Champagne, Congressman Sam Rayburn (Rutgers University Press, 1984).
- Anthony Champagne, Sam Rayburn: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood, 1988).
- C. Dwight Dorough, Mr. Sam (1962).
- Lewis L. Gould and Nancy Beck Young, "The Speaker and the Presidents: Sam Rayburn, the White House, and the Legislative Process, 1941–1961" in Raymond W. Smock and Susan W. Hammond, eds. Masters of the House: Congressional Leadership Over Two Centuries (1998). online version
- D. B. Hardeman and Donald C. Bacon, Rayburn: A Biography (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1987).
- Alfred Steinberg, Sam Rayburn (Hawthorn, 1975)
Altri progetti
Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Sam Rayburn
Collegamenti esterni
- Obituary, NY Times, November 16, 1961, Rayburn Is Dead; Served 17 Years As House Speaker
- The leadership of Speaker Sam Rayburn published 1961, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.
- "Mister Speaker", Time Magazine, September 27, 1943
- Rayburn: Mr Speaker Documentary Website
- The Friends of Sam Rayburn Website
- Address Delivered by The Honorable Sam Rayburn at the Dedication of the Marker over the Graves of His Great-Great Grandfather Col. George Waller and his wife Ann Winston Carr, Oakwood Cemetery, Martinsville, Virginia, May 6, 1951