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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Ar…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1982.66.2
John B. Connally
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Ar…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1982.66.2

John B. Connally

American, 1917 - 1993
United States Secretary of the Navy (1961)
Governor of Texas (1963-1965)
Governor of Texas (1965-1967)
Governor of Texas (1967-1969)
United States Secretary of the Treasury (1971-1972)
Republican Presidential Candidate (1980)

John Connally served as the United States Secretary of the Navy in 1961 under President John F. Kennedy. Eleven months later Connally resigned and ran for Governor of Texas, in which he served consecutive terms. In 1971, Connally was appointed as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in Nixon's administration.
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Additional LBJ Library holdings related to this Individual can be accessed at https://www.discoverlbj.org/item/connallyj Additional National Archives holdings related to this Individual can be accessed at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10569402Social Networks and Archival Context record: https://snaccooperative.org/view/71116790